Cram and Ferguson Architects is an architecture firm based in Concord, Massachusetts. The company was founded as a partnership in 1889 by the "preeminent American Ecclesiastical Gothicist"Jay C. Henry, Architecture in Texas 1895-1945, University of Texas Press (1993), p. 104, Ralph Adams Cram and Charles Francis Wentworth. In 1890 they were joined by Bertram Goodhue, who was made a partner in 1895.

The firm name has changed as partners have changed and names have included: Cram and Wentworth, Cram Goodhue and Wentworth, Cram Goodhue and Ferguson, Cram and Ferguson, Cram and Ferguson Architects, Hoyle, Doran and Berry and HDB/Cram and Ferguson all successor firms to the original partnership of Ralph Adams Cram and Charles Francis Wentworth.

Frank Ferguson, their structural engineer, was made a partner on Wentworth's death in 1905 making the firm one of the earliest A/E firms. Hoyle, Doran and Berry, Inc. the partnership formed by Alexander Hoyle and John Doran continuing the unbroken succession descending from original Cram collaborators in 1958, HDB/Cram and Ferguson was the partnership of David H. Hulihan long time employee of Cram and Ferguson and Ethan Anthony AIA. That partnership was reformed in 2008 on the retirement of President David H. Hulihan and the firm reverted to its traditional name of Cram and Ferguson Architects under the leadership of Ethan Anthony AIA.

In 1931, in Cram's waning years, Arthur Tappan North wrote in his Monograph on the firm's work:

Since 1990 Cram and Ferguson under the leadership of the American Architect; Ethan Anthony is completing new church and academic work including: the St. Thomas Aquinas University Church at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Voyage at Boston Seaport, Massachusetts and the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church at Ridgway, Illinois. Major work the last fifteen years, the Benedictine Monastery of Syon Abbey on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Virginia, The Phillips Chapel at the Canterbury School in Greensboro, North Carolina and The Edward's Chapel at The Casady School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Historic projects

Religious architecture

All Saints Church Ashmont – Dorchester, MA, 1891 Saint Paul's Episcopal Church – Brockton, MA, 1891-94 Swedenborgian Church, 1893 – Newton, MA Church of Saint Peter and Paul – Fall River, MA, 1893 Christ Church – Hyde Park, MA, 1893 St. Luke's Church – Roxbury, MA, 1895 Second Congregational Church (Phillips Church) – Exeter, NH, 1895-98 St. Stephen's Episcopal Church – Cohasset, MA, 1899 Emmanuel Church – Newport, RI, 1900 St. Paul's Episcopal Church – Chicago, IL, 1902 First Baptist Church – Pittsburgh, PA, 1902 All Saints Chapel, University of the South – Sewanee, TN, 1903 Christ Church Cathedral Competition (project) – Victoria, British Columbia, 1903 St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Cathedral (project) – Denver, CO, 1903 First Unitarian Church – West Newton, MA, 1905 Westminster Presbyterian Church – Springfield, IL, 1905 All Saints Cathedral – Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1906 Calvary Episcopal Church – Pittsburgh, PA, 1906 Glens Falls Presbyterian Church – Glens Falls, NY, 1906 St. Thomas Episcopal Church – New York, NY, 1907 Trinity Memorial Church (now St. Andrew's) – Denver, CO, 1907 Church of the Covenant – Cleveland, OH, 1907 St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral – Detroit, MI, 1908-11 Church and Rectory (project) – Guantanamo, Cuba, 1908 Russell Sage Memorial First Presbyterian Church – Far Rockaway, NY, 1908 St. Mary's Church – Walkerville, Ontario, 1904 Cathedral of the Incarnation (project) – Diocese of Baltimore, MD, 1908 Church of the Ascension – Montgomery, AL, 1910 St. James Episcopal Church – New York, NY, 1911-24 St. Paul's Episcopal Church – Malden, MA, 1911 Grace Episcopal Church Parish House – Manchester, NH, 1911 House of Hope Presbyterian Church – St. Paul, MN, 1916-26 Fourth Presbyterian Church – Chicago, IL, 1912 Church of the New Jerusalem – Bryn Athyn, PA 1912 First Presbyterian Church – Oakland, CA, 1912-13 All Saints Episcopal Church – Peterborough, NH, 1913-21 Trinity Episcopal Church (addition) – Princeton, NJ, 1914 Chapel for the Sisters of St. Anne – Arlington, MA, 1914 St. Elizabeth Chapel at Whitehall – Sudbury, MA, 1914 First Universalist Church – Somerville, MA, 1916 Ellingwood Funerary Chapel – Nahant, MA, 1919 First Presbyterian Church, Greensburg, PA, 1919 St. James Church – Lake Delaware, NY, 1920 Trinity Episcopal Church – Houston, TX, 1920 Sacred Heart Church – Jersey City, NJ, 1921 Central Union Church – Honolulu, HI, 1922 First Presbyterian Church – Tacoma, WA, 1923 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church – Durham, NC, 1923 First Presbyterian Church – Jamestown, NY, 1923 St. Paul's Episcopal Church – Yonkers, NY, 1924 Cathedral of St. John the Divine – New York, NY, 1925-31 St. Mary's Catholic Church – Detroit, MI, 1925 Emmanuel Church (project) – Rockford, IL, 1927 St. Paul's Church – Winston-Salem, NC 1927 American Church of Paris – Paris, France, 1927 St. Florian's Church – Detroit, MI, 1928 Prince Memorial Chapel (project) – Fort Myer, VA, 1929 St. Vincent's Church – Los Angeles, CA, 1927 Christ Church – United Methodist Church – New York, NY, 1929 All Saints Episcopal Church (addition) – Brookline, MA, 1929 Klise Memorial Chapel East Congregational UCC Church – Grand Rapids, MI, 1929 Mishawaka Cathedral (project) – Mishawaka, IN, 1930 East Liberty Presbyterian Church – Pittsburgh, PA, 1931 Second Unitarian Church – Boston, MA, 1934 Blank Church (project) – Chicago, IL, 1935 Conventual Church of Sts. Mary and John – Cambridge, MA, 1936 All Saints Episcopal Church – Winter Park, FL, 1938 St. Thomas Church – Peoria, IL, 1939

Academic architecture

Wheaton College – Norton, MA, 1898-1932 Wallace Library Cole Memorial Chapel Kilham Hall Sweet Briar College – Sweet Briar, VA, 1902-66 United States Military Academy – West Point, NY, 1904-1923 Cadet Chapel Headquarters Building Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, 1906-29 Graduate College Proctor Hall University Chapel Cleveland Tower Campbell Hall McCormick School of Art and Architecture Rice University – Houston, TX, 1908-57 Administration Building (Lovett Hall) Campus Master Plan Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Westhampton College, University of Richmond – Richmond, VA, 1910-16 St. Mary's School – Peekskill, NY, 1911 Phillips Exeter Academy – Exeter, NH, 1911-37 Dormitories Williams College – Williamstown, MA, 1912-38 Williams Hall Chapins Hall Stetson Hall Library Sage Hall Gate between William and Sage Mears House Lehman Hall Heating Plant Adams Memorial Theatre Fayerweather Hall Mercersburg Academy Chapel – Mercersburg, PA, 1916-26 The Masters School – Dobbs Ferry, NY, 1919 Tsuda University – Hokkaido, Japan, 1919 Dominican University – River Forest, IL, 1920 St. George's Chapel – Newport, RI, 1923-29 Choate School – Wallingford, CT, 1924-25 University of Notre Dame, South Dining Hall – South Bend, Indiana, 1927 St. Paul's School – Concord, NH, 1927-37 St. Alban's Choir School – Washington, D.C., 1929 Gibson Chapel, The Blue Ridge School – Dyke, VA, 1929 Rollins College Chapel – Winter Park, FL, 1930 University of Southern California, Doheny Library – Los Angeles, CA, 1930 Wellesley College – Wellesley, MA, 1930 Boston University – Boston, MA, 1930-66 St. Mary's High School and Grammar School – Glens Falls, NY, 1930 Swarthmore College – Swarthmore, PA, 1938

Residential, institutional, and commercial architecture

Eddy Residence – Newton, MA, 1888 Edward Courtland Gale Residence – Williamstown, MA, 1890 Kennedy Road – Cambridge, MA, 1890 Eugene Fellner Residence – Brookline, MA, 1890 126 and 128 Brattle Street – Cambridge MA, 1892 165 Winthrop Street – Brookline, MA, 1892 Bushy Hill – Simsbury, CT, 1893 Richmond Court Apartments – Brookline, MA, 1898 Harbor Court – Newport, RI, 1904 Charles Barron Residence – Beacon Street, Boston, MA, 1907 House on the Moors – Gloucester, MA, 1917 Blanche Sewall Residence – Houston, TX, 1924 Paul Watkins House – Winona, MN, 1925 Angelica Livingston Gerry Residence – Lake Delaware, NY, 1926 Chickamauga Memorial Arch – Chickamauga, TN, 1897 Washington Hotel – Colon, Panama, 1910 Edward Courtland Gale Mausoleum – Troy, NY, 1914 Woodrow Wilson Memorial – Washington DC, 1925 Memorial Chapel, American Military Cemetery – Belleau Wood, France, 1926 World War I Memorial Carillon – Richmond, VA, 1926 Oise-Aisne American Military Cemetery Memorial – Fère-en-Tardenois, France, 1926 Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library – Pawtucket, RI, 1893 Public Library – Fall River, MA, 1899 Hunt Library – Nashua, NH, 1902 Lucius Beebe Memorial Library – Wakefield, MA, 1921 Houston Public Library – Houston, TX, 1926 Parker Hill Branch, Boston Public Library – Roxbury, MA, 1929 National Life Insurance Building – Montpelier, VT, 1921 McCormack Federal Building – Boston, MA, 1929 Portsmouth Harbor Front Renewal – Portsmouth, NH, 1933 District Court Building – Dedham, MA, 1937 Holy Cross Monastery – West Park, NY, 1934 Bourne and Sagamore Bridges – Cape Cod, MA, 1938 New England Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters – Boston, MA, 1938 The People's Savings Bank – Providence, RI, 1944 The John Hancock Life Insurance Company Headquarters Building – Boston, MA, 1946 Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire The Berkeley Building, 200 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts The Aid Association for Lutherans Building, 222 W College Avenue, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1952.

Recent projects

Phillips Academy Renovations, Phillips Church- Exeter, NH, 2000 Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham – Houston, TX, 2000 All Saints' Church Peterborough (Addition) – Peterborough, NH, 2000 Canterbury School Bell Tower – Greensboro, NC, 2000 Casady School – Oklahoma City, OK, 2001 West Transept St. Edwards Chapel, 2012 Records Mausoleum – Oklahoma City, OK, 2002 Gale Mausoleum Restoration – Troy, NY, 2002 St. John Neumann Catholic Church – Knoxville, TN, 2005 St. Andrews Episcopal Church Restoration – Denver, CO, 2009 The Bradford Mill, "Wheelhouse" Project – Concord, MA, 2010 Valley of Our Lady Monastery Design – Prairie Du Sac, WI, 2011 Church of the Incarnation – Dallas, TX, 2012 Hunt Memorial Building Restoration – Nashua, NH, 2012 The Church of the Open Word Preservation – Newton, MA, 2014 St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish – Ridgeway, IL, 2015 The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Voyage – Boston Seaport, MA, 2017 Sister of St. Thomas Aquinas – Brooksville, FL, 2019 Emmanuel Baptist Church Restoration – Worcester, MA, 2019 St. Andrew's Catholic Church: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Renovations; 2022 St. Timothy's Episcopal Church; Additions and Renovations; 2022 Church of the Incarnation; Highlands, North Carolina; Facility Renovation 2023 Trinity Presbyterian Church - Multipurpose Roon, Narthex and Worship Space Interior Design and Fitup 2022

Awards

2019 AIA CM Awards – Emmanuel Baptist Church Real Estate and Construction Review Plaque of Honor – Our Lady of Walsingham 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

The practice of the office was started by Ralph Adams Cram in 1889