About Cram & Ferguson Architects:
The current work depicted on this web site has been accomplished under the guidance of Principal Architect Ethan Anthony and his team over the past 30 years.
We work with our clients to design for long service, organic sustainability and high-quality construction.
Our services include planning, new building design, addition design and preservation, restoration and renovation of historic structures, as well as assisting non-profit and municipal institutions with grant writing for historic preservation.
Please view the short video featured here to learn more about both our history and current work and structure. For those wishing to get in touch with us for any reason, please visit our contact page to send us an email or phone us at our Concord Studio at 978-451-0900.
Awards:
2019 AIACM Merit Award for Historic Restoration for Emmanuel Baptist Church, Worcester, MA.
2017 AIACM Merit Award for Design Excellence for St. Kateri, Ridgeway, IL.
2017 AIACM Merit Award for Design Excellence for St. Andrews, Denver, Colorado.
2017 AIACM Citation Award for Design Excellence for Our Lady of the Valley Monastery, Prairie Du Sac, WI.
2015 AIACM Honor Award for Design Excellence for additions to, and renovation of, St Edward's Chapel, Oklahoma City.
2009 Architect of the Year award from the Macael Institute in Alicante, Spain.
2003 Golden Trowel Award for outstanding masonry building of the year for Our Lady of Walsingham Church, Houston, Texas.
1993 Honor Award from the Institute for Religious Art and Architecture for St. Elizabeth's Memorial Garden, Sudbury, Massachusetts.
1938 and 1949 Boston Society of Architects Harleston Parker Awards for most beautiful building of the year.
History of the Firm of Cram and Ferguson Architects, LLC:
The practice of the office was started by Ralph Adams Cram in 1889
In 1890 Mr. Cram became associated with Charles F. Wentworth and later with Bertram G. Goodhue, who became a partner in 1895. Frank W. Ferguson became a partner in 1899.
Mr. Wentworth died in 1899. Mr. Goodhue conducted the New York Office of the firm for some time before his connection was terminated in 1913.
On July 1, 1925 Frank E. Cleveland, Chester Godfrey and Alexander E. Hoyle were admitted to partnership and a new contract was entered into on October 5, 1926. Now four partners.
Mr. Ferguson died October 4, 1926. (Born November 3, 1861, Portsmouth, N.H.).
Mr. Cram died September 22, 1942 and the partnership continued with the three remaining partners. (Born December 16, 1863, Hampton Falls, N.H.).
On January 1, 1944 Chester A. Brown, John T. Doran and William H. Owens were admitted to partnership. The firm now consisted of six equal partners.
Mr. Cleveland died July 30, 1950 and a new partnership was entered into on August 1, 1950 with the five remaining partners. (Born Nov. 11, 1877, Richmond, P.Q., Canada).
Mr. Godfrey died May 5, 1952 and a new partnership was entered into on July 15, 1952 with the remaining four partners – Messrs. Hoyle, Brown, Doran Owens. (Born April 17, 1878 at Hampton, N.H.)
Mr. Owens retired April 30, 1953, and a new partnership was entered into on May 1, 1953 with the three remaining partners – Messrs. Hoyle, Brown and Doran.
On May 1, 1954 Maurice A. Berry and Oscar H. Cederlund were admitted to partnership. The firm now consisted of five partners.
Mr. Cederlund died April 23, 1956. Partnership dissolved April 30, 1956. New partnership dated May 1, 1956. Partners now: Messrs. Hoyle, Brown, Doran, Berry.
Mr. Brown retired April 30, 1957. Partnership dissolved April 30, 1957. On May 1 1957 a new contract was entered into by Messrs. Hoyl, Doran and Berry.
On January 25, 1957 the new was changed to Hoyle, Doran and Berry.
On April 30, 1961 Mr. Hoyle retired. Partnership dissolved April 30, 1961. On May 2, 1961 the following were admitted to partnership: Nisso T. Aladjem, Frank De Bruyn, Robert W. Hadley, Charles P. Harris. There were now six partners.
Mr. Hadley died January 3, 1964. Interim agreement dated January 20, 1964.
Mr. Harris retired January 3, 1966 and a new contract was entered into on January 31, 1966 with the four remaining partners: Messrs. Doran, Berry, Aladjem, De Bruyn.
On August 1, 1965 Austin J. Cribben Jr. was made a partner and a new contract was entered into on February 1, 1966. Partners: Messrs. Doran, Berry, Aladjem, De Bruyn, Cribben.
Hoyle Doran& Berry Inc, was incorporated September 5, 1968; Major Stockholders: Doran, Berry, Aladjem, De Bruyn
Mr. Hoyle died January 2, 1969
Mr. De Bruyn died November 15, 1972, after retiring July 31, 1972.
Remaining Partners: Doran, Berry, Aladjem, Cribben
Mr. Berry retired November 1, 1974
Mr. Doran died December 14, 1979. Remaining Partners: Aladjem, Cribben
Mr. Brown died June 27, 1980.
Mr. Berry died December 26, 1981. Stockholders as of 1987: Cribben and Aladjem
December 1990 Ethan Anthony Associates merged with Hoyle Doran & Berry Inc. Ethan Anthony joined David J Hulihan as a Majority Stockholder.
December 1998 David J. Hulihan Retired, Ethan Anthony became sole Stockholder of Corporation.
2008 firm renamed HDB/Cram and Ferguson
March 31, 2010 Hoyle, Doran & Berry Inc dissolved, Assets acquired by Ethan Anthony
March 31, 2010 Ethan Anthony founds Cram and Ferguson Architects taking up the ongoing work of Hoyle, Doran & Berry Inc.
September 10, 2012 Cram and Ferguson Architects, LLC Incorporated in the State of Massachusetts.
December 16 2013 Cram and Ferguson Architects leads the 150th anniverasy celebration of the birth of Ralph Adams Cram
Mr. Cribben and Mr. Aladjem retired 1987
David Hulihan became a Partner 1987
Ethan Anthony became a Partner 1990
Mr Aladjem Died October 23, 2004
David Hulihan retires 2008
Mr Cribben Died March 30, 2016
David Hulihan died May, 12, 2018
January 1, 2019 is the 130th Anniversary Year of continuous practice of Cram and Ferguson Architects, LLC.
FIRM NAMES
Ralph Adams Cram founded firm in —————————-1889
Cram & Wentworth ————————————————1890
Cram, Wentworth & Goodhue ——————————— 1895
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson ———————————— 1899
Cram and Ferguson Architects ——————————— 1913
Hoyle, Doran and Berry ——————————————- Jan. 25, 1957
Hoyle, Doran and Berry, Inc. ————————————August 26, 1968
Cram and Ferguson Architects LLC —————————Sep. 10, 2012
COMMENCED EMPLOYMENT
C. N. Godfrey ---------------------------------- May 1900
A. E. Hoyle ---------------------------------- Oct. 1908
C. A. Brown ---------------------------------- Oct. 1910
J. T. Doran ---------------------------------- Mar. 1927
W. H. Owens ---------------------------------- May 1921
M. A. Berry ---------------------------------- Jan 1923
O. H. Cederlund ---------------------------------- Mar. 1946
N.T. Aladjem ---------------------------------- July 1950
Frank E. De Bruyn ---------------------------------- Sept. 1926
R. W. Hadley ---------------------------------- Oct. 1945
C. P. Harris ---------------------------------- July 1955
A. J. Cribben ---------------------------------- Jan. 1946
David J Hulihan ---------------------------------- 1967
Ethan Anthony ---------------------------------- Dec. 1990
Events in the Life of Ralph Adams Cram
1863 Cram is born in Hampton Falls in December of 1863
1876 Cram reads “Stones of Venice”
1881 Left Hampton Falls for Boston. Apprenticed to Rotch and Tilden
1882 Country cottage designs published in "Builder and Woodworker"
1884 Summer Tour of Europe; England, France Germany and Italy. Quits Rotch and Tilden. Art Critic with Boston Transcript. Saves Copley Square from development.
1885 Nine months in Italy, three months in Sicily with T. Henry Randall Maryland architect (d. 1906).
1886 Quits as art critic to Boston Transcript. Confirmed in Episcopal Church by Father (later Bishop) Brent
1889 Opened office at Number 1 Park Square, with Charles Francis Wentworth (1841-1897)
1890 Second prize competition for addition to the Massachusetts State House. Frank Cleveland (of Hampton NH) enters office as untrained draughtsman. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924) joined office
1891 Participated in Suffolk County Court House Competition. Commission to design All Saints’ Ashmont
1892 Co-founds Boston Society of the Arts and Crafts (Slipek). Publishes "Knight Errant Quarterly"
1895 Goodhue made partner
1897 Travels to England to photograph churches for English Country Churches. Wentworth dies unexpectedly at 54 years of age.
1898 Second prize in competition for addition to the Massachusetts State House. Designs Richmond Court apartments. Tours Japan. Publishes "English Country Churches" folio of photographs
1899 Design for Japanese Diet. Publication of "Church Building"
1900 Married to Elizabeth Read of Richmond, Virginia. Honeymoon trip to England, France, Germany and Italy
1901 Wins competition to design Nashua Public Library, Nashua, New Hampshire. Commission to design Sweet Briar College, Amherst Virginia. Publishes "Black Spirits and White, The Decadent"
1902 Cram summers in England photographing ruined Abbeys, Elizabeth could not go (no money). Publication of "Ruined Abbeys"
1903 Firm Wins West Point Competition 15th Century English Gothic. Cram designs seal for the Chicago Episcopal Diocese
1904 Goodhue opens New York branch office
1905 Goodhue’s son Harry Wright Goodhue born (1905-1932)
1907 Cram appointed architect of Princeton University (1907-1929). Goodhue tours Mexico by train with Sylvester Baxter Boston Journalist photographs Mexican Churriguresque architecture
1908 Russell Sage Memorial First Presbyterian Church
1909 Publishes four editions of magazine Excalibur
1911 Cram appointed Consulting Architect of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, NY. Cornerstone laid at St Thomas’s Church New York City
1913 Christmas Eve Goodhue resigns. Cram speaks at laying of Richmond College cornerstone, Richmond Virginia. Publishes "American Country Houses of Today". Graduate college at Princeton complete. Began design of Church of the New Jerusalem at Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania. Cram forewords Henry Adams Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
1914 Goodhue leaves firm (Oliver quote of partnership agreement from Cram papers BPL). "Publishes The Ministry of Art"
1915 Publishes "The Heart of Europe"
1917 Publishes "Nemesis of Mediocrity" and publishes "The Substance of Gothic"
1918 Publishes "The Great Thousand Years"
1919 Publishes "Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh"
1921 Receives honorary Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard University
1922 Publishes "Towards the Great Peace". Winter vacation in Spain is Cram's first awareness of Spanish Gothic architecture
1923 Chester Anderson Brown begins laying out drawings for St George’s School. John Doran begins work on Princeton Chapel
1924 Death of Goodhue
1926 Founds Medieval Academy of America. Cleveland, Godfrey, and Hoyle admitted to Partnership. "Yachting trip to Greece and the Islands revealed the authentic Hellenistic art… but by then it was too late.” Virginia War Memorial at Richmond. Featured on the cover of TIME magazine
1927 Ferguson dies and Godfrey replaces him as partner. War Memorials at Fere-en-Tardenois and Belleau Wood
1928 McCormick Federal Post Office, Boston, Massachusetts. Cram speaks at Dedication of Princeton University Chapel
1929 St George’s Chapel completed. Physics Building University of Richmond Virginia. Edits and Forewords "American Church Architecture of Today"
1930 Publishes the "Catholic Church and Art"
1931 East Liberty Presbyterian Church
1932 Dedication of Virginia War Memorial Carillon in Richmond Cram attends. Publishes "The Cathedral of Palma Mallorca"
1935 Publishes "Convictions and Controversies"
1936 Library University of California at Los Angeles; Publishes "My Life in Architecture" and designs campus plan for Boston University
1940 Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters
1942 Cram dies after illness of one week
1943 Elizabeth Carrington Read Cram dies