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Charles Sumner Frost was an American architect.

Born in Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston is a city in Androscoggin County in Maine, and the second-largest city in the state. The population was 41,592 at the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included within the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine...

, Frost was first a draftsman in Boston, and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

. While working in Boston he worked for the firm of Peabody and Stearns

Peabody and Stearns

Peabody & Stearns was a premier architectural firm in the Eastern United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm consisted of Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns, Jr...

. He moved to Chicago in 1 882. There he began a partnership with Henry Ives Cobb

Henry Ives Cobb

Henry Ives Cobb , born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles...

. Together, they established the firm Cobb and Frost

Cobb and Frost

Cobb and Frost was an American architectural firm. Cobb and Frost was founded in Chicago, Illinois by Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost in 1882. The firm was dissolved in 1889 when Cobb began work on designing the Newberry Library...

, which was active from 1882 to 1898. After the partnership ended, he worked alone, and eventually partnered with Alfred Hoyt Granger to form the firm of Frost and Granger. Frost and Granger were known for their designs of train stations and terminals, including the now-demolished Chicago and North Western Terminal. After Frost and Granger dissolved, Frost continued to work independently, designing such structures as the Navy Pier Auditorium.
He died in Chicago.

Notable buildings

Adams Memorial Library in Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton is an affluent community located in DuPage County, Illinois, approximately west of Chicago and Lake Michigan. Wheaton is the county seat of DuPage County...

, 1891
Maine State Building
Maine State Building
The Maine State Building was originally at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Designed by Chicago architect Charles Sumner Frost, a Lewiston, Maine native and MIT graduate, the building was constructed of granite with a slate roof. All the materials were from Maine and crafted by craftsmen and...

, 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Chicago bested New York City; Washington, D.C.; and St...
Rock Island Lines Passenger Station
Rock Island Lines Passenger Station (Rock Island, Illinois)
Rock Island Lines Passenger Station is an historic building located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. It ceased operating as a railway station in 1980. The building was designated a Rock Island landmark in 1987, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982...

in Rock Island, Illinois (1901)
LaSalle Street Station
LaSalle Street Station
LaSalle Street Station is a commuter rail terminal at 414 S. LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, serving Metra's Rock Island District. It was a major intercity rail terminal for the New York Central Railroad until 1968 and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad until 1978. The...

, 1902 (with Granger)
St. Luke's Hospital Complex in Chicago, 1908 (with Granger), 1439 S. Michigan/1440 S. Indiana
Chicago and North Western Terminal
Ogilvie Transportation Center
The Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center is a passenger terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA, serving the three commuter rail lines of Metra's Union Pacific District, which approach the terminal elevated above street level. It occupies the lower floors of the Citigroup Center...

, 1911 (with Granger)
Minneapolis Great Northern Depot
Minneapolis Great Northern Depot
The Minneapolis Great Northern Depot was a passenger train station that served Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was built in 1913 and demolished in 1978...

, 1913
Navy Pier Auditorium
Navy Pier Auditorium
The Navy Pier Auditorium, designed by the architect Charles Sumner Frost and constructed in 1916, is located at the east end of Navy Pier in Chicago and is also known as the Hall. The building's Grand Ballroom measures 138 ft by 150 ft and has a 100ft high half-domed ceiling....

in Chicago in 1916
Milwaukee Road Depot
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed , now officially named The Depot, is a historic railroad depot in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St...

in Minneapolis, 1899
Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot
Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot
The Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot in Green Bay, Wisconsin was built in 1898 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to serve the businesses and residences in Green Bay on the east bank of the Fox River...

in Green Bay, 1898
The Second Union Station in Omaha in in 1891
Morgan Park Library (George C. Walker Branch Library) in Chicago, 1889-90

Notable buildings

See also