Frank Lee Bodine (April 10, 1874 – after 1930) was an American

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who practiced in

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and in

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in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Bodine was born April 10, 1874 in

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with the class of 1896, but left before receiving his diploma in order to enroll at Penn. Bodine was an 1899 graduate of the

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with a B.S. degree in architecture.Ronnie Bodine: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bodine/n6494.html While a student at Penn, he was awarded the T-Square Club prize, in 1897.General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, by University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society, p. 175 From offices in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Frank L. Bodine designed a number of passenger depots for the

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, including

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and Westfield. The Somerville depot is especially notable. The 1890 structure is perhaps the most distinctive station in the Raritan Valley, with its large stone arches, variety of dormers and corner turret with bell-shaped roof. In addition to the many early New Jersey railroad stations, Bodine designed multiple civic, commercial and major residential commissions in New Jersey,

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, and Florida from the 1890s to the 1930s. One of the most notable structures he designed is the office building that housed the offices of

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at the time of his election to presidency and the site of his acceptance. Although Bodine submitted an architectural proposal for the 1903/1904 Carnegie Library in

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the proposal that was accepted came from Edward Lippincott Tilton. Tilton also designed a rectangular Annex at the rear of the building in 1914. Architect Charles Shilowitz designed two wings that form a courtyard at the front of the building in a major addition between 1929 and 1933. In 1917, his addresses were: 925 Chestnut St., Phila., and 320 Midland Avenue, St. Davids, PA. On September 12, 1918, Bodine registered for the

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draft in

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. From 1920 to 1930, Frank and Ida H. Bodine were living in Radnor, Delaware County. In 1920 Bodine won a statewide competition for the design of an Architect's Certificate sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners of Architects; at that time, his address was in St. Davids, PA. Bodine was for a time employed in the practice of "Rankin, Kellogg and Crane" of Philadelphia. By the mid-1920s the Bodines established a winter residence in Orlando, Florida, at 15 E. Amelia Avenue, later moving to 1312 Ferncreek Avenue. His office was at 126 South Orange Avenue. Bodine's was one of 10 architectural firms listed in Orlando in 1926, the others including: Fred E. Field,

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, Murry S. King, George E. Krug, Howard M. Reynolds,

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, Ryan and Roberts (

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and

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) and Percy P. Turner. Bodine practiced architecture in both states thereafter. The couple had no children.

Architectural work – partial listing

* Depot of the

, Veterans Memorial Drive West, Somerville NH, – 1890 * West 8th Street Station of the

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, Bayonne, NJ – 1892 * Carnegie Library,

, NJ (on the list of New Jersey's 150 best buildings) – 1907 * Thompson Building, Maple Street,

, NJ * The Belmar Railroad Station – New York – Long Branch Railroad, tracks at Tenth Avenue, Belmar, NJ – 1910 * Milner-Rosenwald Academy, 1560 Highland Street, Mt. Dora, Florida – 1926
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