Frank M. Howe (20 July 1849 – 4 January 1909) was an architect in

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, and

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. He was a partner with

Henry Van Brunt Henry Van Brunt FAIA (September 5, 1832 – April 8, 1903) was an American architect and architectural writer. Life and work Van Brunt was born in Boston in 1832 to Gershom Jacques Van Brunt and Elizabeth Price Bradlee. Van Brunt attended ...

in the prominent firm of Van Brunt and Howe. He later partnered with Henry F. Hoit as Howe, Hoit & Cutler.

Life and work

Frank Maynard Howe was born on July 20, 1849, in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, which later became

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. He attended public schools and Cotting Academy. He was part of the first class of a special course in architecture at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT). While still in school, Howe went to work for Ware & Van Brunt in 1868.

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and

started the Boston architectural firm in 1864. In 1881, Ware retired to become the founding chair of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. Howe then partnered with Van Brunt creating the firm of Van Brunt & Howe. Van Brunt & Howe had a national reputation with clients in several areas of the country. Around 1885 to 1887, Van Brunt & Howe opened an office in Kansas City that was originally managed by Howe. Van Brunt later joined Howe in Kansas City. Howe was a member of the board of consulting architects for the

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in Chicago. He held a similar position with the

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an World's fair, international exposition held in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federa ...

in St. Louis. Van Brunt returned to Massachusetts after retiring where he died in 1903. In 1904, Howe partnered with two employees who were also graduates of the program at MIT, Henry F. Hoit and William H. Cutler. The firm of Howe, Hoit & Cutler became Howe & Hoit upon the death of Cutler in 1907. Two years later, Howe succumbed to heart failure and died on January 4, 1909, at the age of 59. He had been ill since the previous June and traveled with his wife and daughter (Dorothy) to Great Britain, Holland, Germany, and France prior to his death. Howe was married in 1871 to Mary Elizabeth Wyman, of Arlington. They had two daughters, Katherine (Munger) and Dorothy. They designed and built a home in 1887 at 1707 Jefferson Street in Kansas City. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Howe belonged to the Papyrus Club in Boston, the Kansas City Club, the Kansas City Commercial Club, was president of the Knife and Fork Club, president of the Philharmonic Society, and was a thirty-second degree Mason, and Shriner. Joining the American Institute of Architects in 1899, he was president of the Kansas City chapter in 1901 and 1908. He was named a

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(FAIA) in 1901.

Notable buildings

Van Brunt & Howe

* 1883 -

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* 1886 - Coates House Hotel (Rebuilding) Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 * 1887 - Frank M. Howe Residence (Designed by Howe) Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 * 1890 -

Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company was a department store in Downtown Kansas City that traced its history nearly to the city's origins as Westport Landing. History The store was started by Kersey Coates and William Gillis in the 1860s in the t ...

Building * 1893 - Electricity Building and the Wyoming Building,

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, Chicago (demolished) * 1894 - Spooner Hall,

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* 1904 - Palace of Varied Industries,

Louisiana Purchase Exposition The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an World's fair, international exposition held in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federa ...

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(razed)

Howe, Hoit & Cutler

* 1905 - Independence Boulevard Christian Church * 1907 - R.A. Long Building Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 * 1908 - Temple B'nai Jehudah (Mohart Multipurpose Center)

Gallery

File:Monument - panoramio (48).jpg,

File:Coates House Hotel.jpg, Coates House Hotel File:Frank M. Howe Residence.jpg, Frank M. Howe Residence File:Emey-bird2.jpg, Emery, Bird & Thayer Building File:Pan-American Exposition - Electricity Building at Night.jpg, Electricity Building, 1893 File:Spooner Hall, University of Kansas.jpg, Spooner Hall, University of Kansas File:VariedIndustries.jpg, Palace of Varied Industries
1904 St.Louis World's Fair File:R.A. Long Building.jpg, R.A. Long Building File:B'nai Jehudah Temple 1908.jpg, B'nai Jehudah Temple

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, Frank M. 1849 births 1909 deaths 19th-century American architects Architects from Missouri MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni Fellows of the American Institute of Architects