Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 – September 22, 1942) was a prolific and influential American
architect
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Garrison, New York
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, 1882
*House of the Rising Sun, 657 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1890. Designed for Unitarian missionary Reverend Arthur May Knapp (1841–1921), it was inspired by a Japanese Pagoda.
* Rehoboth,
Chappaqua, New York
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Brookline, Massachusetts
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Winona, Minnesota
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, 1924–27
*Moonstone Cottage, 559 York Street, York Harbor, Maine
Churches and religious buildings
*
All Saints' Church
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Albania
*All Saints' Church, Himarë
Australia
* All Saints Church, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
* All Saints Anglican Church, Henley Brook, Western Aust ...
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Ashmont, Massachusetts
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Hyde Park, Massachusetts
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Exeter, New Hampshire
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Newport, Rhode Island
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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West Park, New York West Park is a hamlet on the west side of the Hudson River in the Town of Esopus, Ulster County, New York, United States. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the area became attractive to the well-to-do seeking second homes becaus ...
, with
Henry Vaughan
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Sewanee, Tennessee
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Sewanee is best known as the home of ...
Havana, Cuba
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New York City
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Newton, Massachusetts
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Denver, CO
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Detroit, Michigan
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Far Rockaway, New York
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St. Florian Church
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,
Hamtramck, Michigan
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
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, 1910
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Park Avenue Christian Church
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,
New York City
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University Circle
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neighborhood of
Cleveland, Ohio
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Bangor, Maine
Bangor ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Penobscot County. The city proper has a population of 31,753, making it the state's 3rd-largest settlement, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121).
Modern Bangor ...
, 1912
*remodeling of
Richard Upjohn
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Providence, Rhode Island
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, 1912
*Saint Paul's Episcopal Parish,
Malden, Massachusetts
Malden is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 66,263 people.
History
Malden, a hilly woodland area north of the Mystic River, was settled by Puritans in 1640 on la ...
, begun 1913, unfinished
*
Fourth Presbyterian Church
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago is one of the largest congregations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), located in the Magnificent Mile neighborhood of Chicago, directly across Michigan Avenue from the John Hancock Center.
History
...
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Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Arlington, Massachusetts
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History ...
Dodge City, Kansas
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Peterborough, New Hampshire
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Somerville, Massachusetts
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, 1916-23
*Chapel of
Mercersburg Academy
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Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
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Due to its location in a rural area, it had a relatively large percentage ...
Norton, Massachusetts
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Houston, Texas
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Americus, Georgia
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Hastings, Nebraska
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Lexington, Kentucky
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Tacoma, Washington
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Utica, New York
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, 1924
*Pine Street Presbyterian Church,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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Newport, Rhode Island
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, 1928
*Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls refe ...
, 1928
*St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in N ...
, 1928
*Concordia Lutheran Church,
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...
, 1930
*
Knowles Memorial Chapel
Knowles Memorial Chapel, built between 1931 and 1932, is an historic Mediterranean Revival building located on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, in the United States. On December 8, 1997, it was added to the National Register ...
, on the campus of
Rollins College
Rollins College is a private college in Winter Park, Florida. It was founded in November 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several graduate programs. It is Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution.
History
Rollins Colle ...
,
Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 30,183 according to the 2022 census population estimate. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Winter Park was fo ...
, 1931–32
*
Christ Church United Methodist
Christ Church, United Methodist is a United Methodist church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
History
Located at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 60th Street, the church was built primarily during 1931–1933. Chur ...
, New York City, 1931–33
*Chancel,
Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church
Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is a large, Gothic Revival-style church built in 1870 and located at Park Avenue and Lafayette Avenue in the city's Bolton Hill neighborhood. Named in memory of a Bal ...
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Baltimore, Maryland
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Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census. Blacksburg, as well as the surrounding county, is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of V ...
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.
Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
1899
*Boston Public Library, Parker Hill Branch,
Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Roxbury is a Municipal annexation in the United States, dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for n ...
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls ...
, 1899
*
The Mather School
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Dorchester, Massachusetts
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, 1905
*Hunt Memorial Library,
Nashua, New Hampshire
Nashua is a city in southern New Hampshire, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it had a population of 91,322, the second-largest in northern New England after nearby Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester. Along with Manc ...
, 1906
* Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, 1906–28
**Mary K. Benedict Hall
**Fletcher Hall
**Mary Harley Student Health and Counseling Center
**Mary Helen Cochran Library
*Masters Hall,
The Masters School
The Masters School (colloquially known as Masters), is a private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Its campus is located north of New York City in the Hudson Valley in West ...
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Dobbs Ferry, New York
Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 10,875 according to the 2010 United States Census. In 2019, its population rose to an estimated 11,027. The village of Dobbs Ferry is located in, and is a p ...
, 1921
*
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of whi ...
, 1911–28
**
Princeton University Graduate College
The Graduate College at Princeton University is a residential college which serves as the center of graduate student life at Princeton. Wyman House, adjacent to the Graduate College, serves as the official residence of the current Dean of the Gr ...
, 1911–13
**
Cleveland Tower
Cleveland Tower is a bell tower containing a carillon on the campus of Princeton University. Inspired by Boston College's Gasson Hall, the design by Ralph Adams Cram is one of the defining Collegiate Gothic architectural features of the university ...
, 1917
**
Princeton University Chapel
The Princeton University Chapel is located on that university's main campus in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It replaces an older chapel that burned down in 1920. Designed in 1921 by Ralph Adams Cram in his signature Collegiate Gothic styl ...
, 1928
**Rothschild Memorial Archway, 1929-1930
**Campbell Hall
**McCormick Hall
*
University of Richmond
The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia. It is a primarily undergraduate, residential institution with approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools: the School ...
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Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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Williams College
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Williamstown, Massachusetts
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, 1910–22
**Chapin Hall
**Stetson Hall
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Phillips Exeter Academy
(not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God)
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Exeter, New Hampshire
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**Academy Building, 1914
**other buildings
*
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
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Houston, Texas
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, 1910–16
**Lovett Hall (Administration Building)
**Mechanical Laboratory
** Campus master plan
*
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
The Lucius Beebe Memorial Library is the main library for the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts. The building that currently holds the town's main library was opened in 1923 and is named after the first library commissioner.
History
Originally, t ...
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Wakefield, Massachusetts
Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offers ...
, 1922
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The Choate School
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, Wallingford, Connecticut, 1924–28
**St. Andrews Chapel (now Seymour St. John Chapel)
**Archbold Infirmary, 1928 (now Archbold House)
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Julia Ideson Building
The Julia Ideson Building is a Houston Public Library facility in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It is named for Julia Bedford Ideson, who served as the system's first head librarian for 40 years.
The Spanish Renaissance-style buil ...
of the
Houston Public Library
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History Houston Lyceum and the Carnegie Library
The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 18 ...
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Houston, Texas
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, 1926
*
Doheny Library
The Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library is a library located in the center of campus at the University of Southern California (USC).
History
After the shooting of his son, the Irish American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny donated $1.1 milli ...
,
Campus of the University of Southern California
The Campus of the University of Southern California, also known as the University Park Campus is located in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The campus sprawls across 226 acres and contains most of the academic faciliti ...
, Los Angeles, 1931
*Bell Tower,
Dwight Morrow High School
Dwight Morrow High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Englewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Englewood Public School District. The school also serves students from Engle ...
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Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which at the 2020 United States census had a population of 29,308. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from por ...
Glens Falls, New York
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, 1932
*
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
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South Dining Hall
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Etymology
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University of Notre Dame
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South Bend, Indiana
South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, St. Joseph County, Indiana, on the St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan), St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2020 United S ...
, 1927
Other buildings
*Virginia War Memorial Carillon,
Byrd Park
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Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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, 1932
*U.S. Post Office and Courthouse aka J.W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts, 1933
*buildings at the
Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial
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Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial
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Fère-en-Tardenois
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It is named for the Tardenois region.
Population
Personalities
It was the birthplace of Camille Claudel (18 ...
Berkeley Building
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Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="n ...
, Boston, Massachusetts, 1947
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Marsh Chapel
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While Meth ...
of
Boston University
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Cram wrote numerous publications and books on issues in architecture and religious devotion. Titles include:
*''Impressions of Japanese Architecture'', The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905
*''Heart of Europe'', MacMillan & Co. London, 1916 325pgs.
*''The Substance of Gothic'', Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1917
*''Farm Houses Manor Houses Minor Chateaux Small Churches in Normandy and Brittany, The Architectural Book Publishing Company, Paul Wenzel and Maurice Krakow, 1917
*''Sins Of The Fathers'', Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1918
*''Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh'', 1919
*''Walled Towns'', Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1919
*''Towards the Great Peace'', Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1922
*''My Life in Architecture'', Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1936
Cram also wrote fiction. A number of his stories, notably "The Dead Valley", were published in a collection entitled ''Black Spirits and White'' (Stone & Kimball, 1895). The collection has been called "one of the undeniable classics of weird fiction". H. P. Lovecraft wrote, "In 'The Dead Valley' the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description."
Professional memberships
Cram was a
*Fellow of the:
**Boston Society of Architects.
**
American Institute of Architects
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Royal Geographical Society of London
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
.''Proceedings of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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'' Volume 56, 1921, p. 424.
*Member of the:
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American Federation of Arts
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**Architectural Association of London.
*Member of the clubs
**Puritan Club (Boston).
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Century Association
The Century Association is a private social, arts, and dining club in New York City, founded in 1847. Its clubhouse is located at 7 West 43rd Street near Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is primarily a club for men and women with distinction ...