Educated at Westford Academy and Exeter High School, Cram went on to study architecture in a Boston office. In 1889, he established his own architect's office in Boston and went on to enjoy a highly successful career. Cram specialized in the Gothic style and many churches and college buildings were the result of his efforts. His company, Cram & Ferguson, which is still in business today, was awarded the contract in 1904 for the design of the Military Academy at West Point. Cram was a consulting architect at Princeton University from 1907 to 1929 and a professor of architecture at MIT from 1914 to 1921. In addition to his many works on architecture, Cram also wrote a variety of essays and some short stories. His best-known story, The Dead Valley (1895), was praised by H. P. Lovecraft. Cram's other works include Black Spirits and White (1895), Church Building (1901), The Gothic Quest (1907), The Ministry of Art (1914), The Substance of Gothic (1916), The Nemesis of Mediocrity (1918), The Great Thousand Years (1918), Walled Towns (1918), My Life in Architecture (1936) and The End of Democracy (1937). |
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