Charles Sumner Frost

Charles Sumner Frost (May 31, 1856 – December 11, 1931) was an American architect.

Born in Lewiston, Maine, Frost was first a draftsman in Boston, and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While working in Boston he worked for the firm of Peabody and Stearns.^[1] He moved to Chicago in 1 882. There he began a partnership with Henry Ives Cobb. Together, they established the firm Cobb and Frost, 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. ^[2] He died in Chicago.

Notable buildings

• Adams Memorial Library in Wheaton, Illinois, 1891
• Maine State Building, 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition
• Rock Island Lines Passenger Station in Rock Island, Illinois (1901)
• LaSalle Street Station, 1902 (with Granger)
• St. Luke's Hospital Complex in Chicago, 1908 (with Granger), 1439 S. Michigan/1440 S. Indiana
• Chicago and North Western Terminal, 1911 (with Granger)
• Minneapolis Great Northern Depot, 1913
• Navy Pier Auditorium in Chicago in 1916
• Milwaukee Road Depot in Minneapolis, 1899
• Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot 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^[3]

See also

• Architecture of Chicago
• Cobb and Frost
• Lake Forest Library
• Lake Forest, Illinois

References

1. ^ Stuart Cohen and Susan Bejamin; North Shore Chicago; Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs 1890-1940 Acanthus Press, 2004, p.311
2. ^ Frost Papers at UMN
3. ^ "Morgan Park Library, Chicago". Inland Architect and News Record 15: 51. April 1890.