Ralph Adams Cram

date/location

* December 16, 1863 Hampton Falls
† September 22, 1942 Boston (aged seventy-eight.)

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American architect and author.

description

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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.

projects

S. Thomas's Church
1910-13
New York City, United States of America
Princeton University
Princeton, United States of America

membership

period	name	type
	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