Cram (Ralph Adams) is born In Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.

Ralph Adams Cram comes to Boston in approximately 1881 to serve as an apprentice in an architect’s office, then opens his own firm, Cram & Wentworth, in 1889. He lives at 28 Dwight Street from 1880 until 1884. Known primarily for buildings designed in the Medieval style, becomes a professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and serves as chairman of the Boston Planning Board (1915-22) He dies in Boston on September 22, 1942.