Cram, Ralph Adams

6 December 1863 - 22 September 1942

American architect (known for buildings — primarily in the style known as Collegiate Gothic, appropriately enough — at Princeton, MIT, and West Point, among many other places), cultural critic, and writer of supernaturalist fiction and scholarship.

Sites:
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
"Ralph Adams Cram: The Man, His Work, and His Legacy at Princeton University"
Biographical student essay stressing Cram's architectural principles and contributions (of the architectural sort) to Princeton U. [Stephen Warneck]
Brief biographical note [Encyclopedia.com]
Bibliography of reprints of Cram's horror tales
[Locus magazine]


Etexts:
"No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince" [1895] (35K) [Gaslight]

Cram on Gothic Architecture
It's a bit heady, to be sure, for Cram was a gifted architect and this discussion, from the Catholic Encyclopedia, could only have been written by an architect (with a good grasp of history), but what a concept - a gothic writer on Gothic architecture....
"Ralph Adams Cram."