Considers the life and work of American collegiate and ecclesiastical architect Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942). With a brief narrative introduction. The majority of the book is photographs of buildings. An uncommon volume.
Includes a letter dated 1976 from Walter Muir Whitehill (1905-1978)–American Medievalist of Spanish architecture and Americanist; Librarian and Director of the Boston Athenaeum–to the British architectural historian, Gavin Stamp (1948-2017). The envelope addressed to Gavin Stamp, Esq 2 St. Alphege House Pocock Street, London, S.E.1, contains a carbon copy on Trojan onion paper of a typed 13 page essay titled “Ralph Adams Cram: A Boy’s View by Walter Muir Whitehill Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, 5 May 1976.” Written when Whitehill was 71, three years after his retirement as director of the Boston Athenaeum and two years before his death, the essay was written the same year as Whitehill’sPalladio in America (Electa Editrice / Rizzoli, 1976) a study of Palladian style American architecture co-authored by Whitehill and Frederick Doveton Nichols.
Illustrations:
Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Graduate College, Princeton University
Rice Institute, Houston, Texas
U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
All Saints' Church, Peterborough, New Hampshire -
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City
Chapel, Princeton University -
Chapel, Saint George's School, Newport, Rhode Island
Christ Church, New York City
Church of the Ascension, Montgomery, Alabama
Church of the Sacred Heart, Jersey City, New Jersey
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Federel Building, Boston, Massachusetts -
Holy Rosary Church, E. E. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Leyden Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
Presbyterian Church, Glens Falls, New York
Phillips Exeter Academy
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saint James' Church, New York City
Saint John's Church, Watertown, Connecticut
Saint Paul's Church, Yonkers, New York
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Saint James' Church, Delaware Lake, New York
Church of Saint Vincent de Paul, Los Angeles, California
Edward L. Dohney Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California -
Knowles Memorial Chapel, Winter Park, Florida
Notre Dame University
Saint Florian Church, Detroit, Michigan Saint Mary of Redford, Detroit, Michigan
Saint Paul's Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Title: Ralph Adams Cram: Cram and Ferguson (Contemporary American Architects)
Artist/Author: foreword by Arthur Tappan North
Publisher:Whittlesey House, New York and London
Publication date: 1931
Format: hardcover
Pages:118
Images: 32 b/w plates (photographs by Paul J. Weber)
Language: English
Stock Number: RB04879
Considers the life and work of American collegiate and ecclesiastical architect Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942). With a brief narrative introduction. The majority of the book is photographs of buildings. An uncommon volume.
Includes a letter dated 1976 from Walter Muir Whitehill (1905-1978)–American Medievalist of Spanish architecture and Americanist; Librarian and Director of the Boston Athenaeum–to the British architectural historian, Gavin Stamp (1948-2017). The envelope addressed to Gavin Stamp, Esq 2 St. Alphege House Pocock Street, London, S.E.1, contains a carbon copy on Trojan onion paper of a typed 13 page essay titled “Ralph Adams Cram: A Boy’s View by Walter Muir Whitehill Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, 5 May 1976.” Written when Whitehill was 71, three years after his retirement as director of the Boston Athenaeum and two years before his death, the essay was written the same year as Whitehill’sPalladio in America (Electa Editrice / Rizzoli, 1976) a study of Palladian style American architecture co-authored by Whitehill and Frederick Doveton Nichols.
Illustrations:
Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Graduate College, Princeton University
Rice Institute, Houston, Texas
U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
All Saints' Church, Peterborough, New Hampshire -
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City
Chapel, Princeton University -
Chapel, Saint George's School, Newport, Rhode Island
Christ Church, New York City
Church of the Ascension, Montgomery, Alabama
Church of the Sacred Heart, Jersey City, New Jersey
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Federel Building, Boston, Massachusetts -
Holy Rosary Church, E. E. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Leyden Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
Presbyterian Church, Glens Falls, New York
Phillips Exeter Academy
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saint James' Church, New York City
Saint John's Church, Watertown, Connecticut
Saint Paul's Church, Yonkers, New York
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Saint James' Church, Delaware Lake, New York
Church of Saint Vincent de Paul, Los Angeles, California
Edward L. Dohney Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California -
Knowles Memorial Chapel, Winter Park, Florida
Notre Dame University
Saint Florian Church, Detroit, Michigan Saint Mary of Redford, Detroit, Michigan
Saint Paul's Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Title: Ralph Adams Cram: Cram and Ferguson (Contemporary American Architects)
Artist/Author: foreword by Arthur Tappan North
Publisher:Whittlesey House, New York and London
Publication date: 1931
Format: hardcover
Pages:118
Images: 32 b/w plates (photographs by Paul J. Weber)
Language: English
Stock Number: RB04879
