Ralph Adams Cram

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* December 16, 1863 Hampton Falls
† September 22, 1942 Boston

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American architect and author, active in Massachusetts

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Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson
American office for architecture, active in Boston
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Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson
American office for architecture
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Cram and Ferguson
American office for architecture
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Cram, Goodhue and Wentworth
American office for architecture
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Cram and Wentworth
American office for architecture
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Cram was a member of the Boston firm of Cram & Ferguson. An authority on Gothic architecture, he designed buildings for Princeton University and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point as well as redesigned the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and many other churches. For seven years he was the head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as Chairman of the Boston City Planning Board.

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projects

All Saints Episcopal Church
1941
Winter Park, United States of America
University of Southern California, Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library
1931-32
First Presbyterian Church
1922-25
Tacoma, United States of America
Saint Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
1866, 1919
New York, United States of America
S. Thomas's Church
1910-13
New York City, United States of America
William Augustus Huff House
1898-1902
Greensburg, United States of America
Princeton University
Princeton, United States of America

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membership

period	name	type
	North British Academy of Art	Fellow
	Royal Geographical Society	Fellow
	National Institute of Arts and Letters	member
	American Academy of Arts and Sciences	Fellow
from 1901	American Institute of Architects	member
from 1902	American Institute of Architects	Fellow

publications

Boston Bohemia 1881-1900
Life and Architecture (Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture, Vol 1)
R. A. Cram, D. Shand-Tucci
University of Massachusetts Press; 1995
The Substance of Gothic
Six Lectures on the Development of Architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VIII
R. A. Cram
University Press of the Pacific; 2002
The Work of Cram and Ferguson Architects.
Including Work by Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson.
R. A. Cram
Pencil Points Press Inc.; 1929
- With an Introduction by Charles D. Maginnis.
Walled Towns
R. A. Cram
University Press of the Pacific; 2002