Charles Sumner Frost was an American architect. He is best known as the architect of Navy Pier and for designing over 100 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railway.
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architect
Citizenship
United States
Born
May 31, 1856
Died
December 11, 1931
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Charles Sumner Frost (May 31, 1856 – December 11, 1931) was an American architect. He is best known as the architect of Navy Pier and for designing over 100 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railway.
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Biography
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Frost was first a draftsman in Boston, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876. While working in Boston he worked for the firm of Peabody and Stearns from 1876 to 1881. He moved to Chicago in 1882, when 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. Frost married Mary Hughitt, a daughter of Marvin Hughitt, the President of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, in 1897. On January 1, 1898, he partnered with his brother-in-law, 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. Frost designed 127 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railroad alone.
After Frost and Granger dissolved in 1910, Frost continued to work independently, designing such structures as the Navy Pier Auditorium.
Frost was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He retired on December 31, 1928, and died on December 11, 1931, in Chicago. He was buried at Rosehill Cemetery.
The city of Frost, Minnesota, was named for Charles S. Frost.
Notable buildings
Union Depot, 201 South Main Street, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1888 (with Cobb)
Chicago and North Western Railway Lake Front Depot, Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1889, demolished 1968
Morgan Park Library (George C. Walker Branch Library) in Chicago, 1889-90
Adams Memorial Library in Wheaton, Illinois, 1891
The Second Union Station, Omaha, Nebraska, 1891
Western Bank Note Building in Chicago in 1891
Fond du Lac Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 1891
Chicago and North Western Railway station, 200 North 6th Street, De Kalb, Illinois, 1891 (with Granger)
Chicago and North Western Railway station, 724 Green Bay Road, Glencoe, Illinois, 1891
Chicago and North Western Railway depot, Broad Street, Lake Geneva, 1891
Chicago and North Western Railway depot, Milwaukee Avenue, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1893
Maine State Building, 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition
Old Law Building, Madison, Wisconsin 1893
Chicago and North Western Railway depot, Belle Plaine, Iowa 1894
Richard T. Ely House in Madison, 1896
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Chicago and North Western Railway depot, North West and West 5th Streets, Carroll, Iowa, 1896
