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By and large, Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942) is remembered today as the creator of impressive Gothic churches and collegiate buildings. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in New York, the Princeton Graduate College and Chapel, and a variety of turn-of-the-century buildings at West Point—these are the most prominent, though not necessarily the best, of his ...
31 de oct. de 2017 · Something was brewing between Julia Gardiner Gayley and Ralph Adams Cram in 1920. Perhaps it began in late 1919. Julie and her daughter Mary, normally candid and forthright in their letters to one another, discussed him almost exclusively in cryptic remarks and coded language. He was “R.A.C.,” just plain “R,” or “our Gothic friend.”.
18 de may. de 2018 · Cram, Ralph Adams. Cram, Ralph Adams (1863–1942). Leading Gothic Revivalist in the USA, much influenced by the works of Bodley, Morris, and Ruskin. He went into partnership with Charles Francis Wentworth (1861–97) in 1889, and together they built the Episcopalian Church of All Saints, Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, MA (1891–1913).
Medieval scholar and architect Ralph Adams Cram purchased Whitehall, a handsome Federal mansion and enlarged the house in 1914–1915 by constructing a library wing on the street side and modifying the service areas on the opposite end. At the time, Cram was the director of the architecture program at MIT and nationally recognized as a church ...
Ralph Adams Cram was born on December 16, 1863, in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the son of Rev. William Augustine Cram and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Blake (daughter of Ira Blake). He married on September 20, 1900, in New Bedford, to Elizabeth Carrington Read (b. 1872-1873 in Farmville GA), daughter of Clement C. Read and his wife, Mary Johnson.
Biographical / Historical. Ralph Adams Cram (RAC) was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, in 1863 to Sarah Elizabeth (Blake) Cram and William Augustine Cram, a Unitarian minister. He had one younger brother, William Everett Cram (1871-1947), and one younger sister, Marion (1876-1974). In 1900 he married Elizabeth Carrington Read (1873-1943).
Cram was not guided by aesthetic considerations alone. He hoped that as a well-planned, collegiate Gothic university, Prince ton would, like Oxford and Cambridge universities, evoke a tradi 1 Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) was an ardent advocate of the Gothic revival in the United States. Influenced by both John Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc, he be
