CRAM, RALPH ADAMS ), American architect, was born at Hampton Falls (N.H.), on Dec. 16, 1863. He was educated at the Westford (Mass.) academy and the Exeter (N.H.) high school. He studied architecture, and in 1889 opened an architect's office in Boston. Recognized as an authority on mediaeval architecture and an able advocate of the Gothic style, he was appointed architect for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, in 1911, and consulting architect for the Washington and San Francisco cathedrals. He was professor of architecture at the Massachusetts institute of technology, 1914 1921, and was the first chairman of the Boston city planning board, 1915-22.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.-His numerous writings include Church Building Bibliography.-His numerous writings include Church Building (1901) ; The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain (19o5) ; Impressions of Japanese Architecture and The Allied Arts (19o5) ; The Gothic Quest (1907) ; The Ministry of Art (1914) ; Heart of Europe (1915) ; The Substance of Gothic (1916, Lowell lectures) ; The Nemesis of Medioc rity (1918) ; The Great Thousand Years (Iq18) ; The Sins of the Fathers (1919) ; Walled Towns (1919) : Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh (1919) ; and Towards the Great Peace (1922) .