Frank+Freeman

=Frank Freeman=

**Frank Freeman ** (1861–13 October 1949) was a [|Canadian]  -  [|American] [|architect]  based in  [|Brooklyn, New York]. A leading exponent of the [|Richardsonian Romanesque]  architectural style who later adopted  [|Neoclassicism] , Freeman has been called "Brooklyn's greatest architect". Many details of his life and work are however still unknown, and Freeman himself has received little recognition outside academia. Many of his works have been demolished or otherwise destroyed, but most of those that remain have received [|landmark]  status, either independently or as part of larger historic districts. **Life and career ** Freeman was born in [|Hamilton, Ontario] ,  [|Canada]  in 1861. In the early 1880s, he arrived in New York, where he obtained a minor position in an architect's office while studying architecture. [|[1] ] By 1885 he was a qualified architect, and in 1887 he established his own practice. Almost immediately he began attracting major commissions, one of the first being for the [|Hotel Margaret]  in 1888. [|[2] ] Freeman maintained offices in both Brooklyn and [|New York City] , the latter in the Sun Building at  [|280 Broadway]. [|[1] ] While he designed buildings for clients in both [|Manhattan]  and  [|Long Island]  and occasionally further afield, the great majority of his works were constructed in Brooklyn. [|[2] ] [|[3] ] Freeman's early work was completed in the [|Richardsonian Romanesque]  style, at which he is considered a master. After the [|Chicago World's Fair]  in 1893 however, Romanesque went out of fashion and Freeman quickly adapted to the new  [|Neoclassical]  trend, completing a major commission in the genre, the  [|Brooklyn Savings Bank] , even before the World's Fair had ended. [|[3] ] Freeman also sometimes incorporated elements of other styles into his works, such as [|Italian Renaissance] ,  [|Beaux Arts]  and  [|Colonial Revival]  , in an  [|eclectic]  manner. Freeman once headed the Clubhouse Committee of the Crescent Athletic Club (whose [|headquarters]  he designed in 1906), and he was a parishioner of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in  [|Brooklyn Heights]. [|[3] ] He died in 1949 in a convalescent home in [|Montclair, New Jersey]  at the age of 88, after a long illness. He was survived by two daughters, Miss Katharine C. Freeman and Mrs Dorothea F. Sellew. [|[1] ] Freeman's family discarded his papers and records just days before architectural historian Alan Burnham arrived to request them. Historians have thus been obliged to try and piece together details of his career from municipal records, a task that was still ongoing as late as 1995. [|[2] ] **Critical appraisal ** Freeman's work has received high praise from architecture critics, most notably from [|Norval White]  who called him "Brooklyn's greatest architect"—an accolade frequently repeated, and that other critics have judged as not unreasonable. [|[3] ] His work in the Richardsonian Romanesque style in particular has been singled out for attention. The 19th century critic [|Montgomery Schuyler]  credited him with "the most artistic examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque in our domestic architecture",  [|[2] ] while a 1979 report by New York's  [|Landmarks Preservation Commission]  described his works in this style to be "among the finest built anywhere in New York City." [|[4] ] He has been praised for his "fecund imagination" and "infinite versatility"—an example of the latter being his [|Brooklyn Savings Bank] , a neoclassical design, considered by critic  [|Francis Morrone]  to have been perhaps Freeman's finest work. [|[3] ] More generally, Freeman's "marvellously clear and direct" buildings "seem to speak to people, he gave them a sense of immediacy", according to historian Andrew Dolkart. Dolkart asserts that had Freeman practiced in Manhattan, "he'd be famous; but just because he worked in Brooklyn, no one's ever heard of him." [|[2] ] Though known to have been a prolific architect, many of Freeman's buildings have been demolished or destroyed, which further contributed to his lack of recognition. [|[3] ] Many of Freeman's surviving works are now protected by landmark status.

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TEXT TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA
 * 1) ^ [|**//a//**] [|**//b//**] [|**//c//**]  [|"Frank Freeman"] , //  [|The New York Times]  //, 1949-10-14.
 * 2) ^ [|**//a//**] [|**//b//**] [|**//c//**] [|**//d//**] [|**//e//**] [|**//f//**] [|**//g//**] Gray, Christopher:  [|"Frank Freeman, Architect; After a Century, a Fond Remembrance"] , //The New York Times//, 1995-02-26.
 * 3) ^ [|**//a//**] [|**//b//**] [|**//c//**] [|**//d//**] [|**//e//**] [|**//f//**] [|**//g//**] Morrone and Iska, pp. 24-26.
 * 4) ** [|^]  **  [|"Prospect Part South Historic District Designation Report"] ,  [|Landmarks Preservation Commission]  , 1979-02-08, nyc.gov.
 * 5) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">  [|"Currents; What's in Brooklyn? Take a Walk"] , //The New York Times//, 1990-10-04.
 * 6) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Morrone and Iska, p. 23.
 * 7) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Morrone and Iska, p. 81.
 * 8) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Morrone and Iska, p. 141.
 * 9) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brinton, Scott:  [|"Water Mill's No Run-of-the-Mill Town"] , //Newsday//, 1997-01-12.
 * 10) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lancaster and Gillon, p. 68.
 * 11) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Howard, pp. 860-862.
 * 12) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">  [|"A Temple Of Democracy"] , //The New York Times//, 1890-09-24.
 * 13) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">American Institute of Architects, p. 6.
 * 14) <span style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|^]  **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">  [|"Prospect Park South Historic District Designation Report"] , Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1979-02-08, p. 29, nyc.gov.

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