Crite (Allan Rohan) is born in Plainfield, New Jersey.

The son of Osca and Annamae (Palmer) Crite, Allan Rohan Crite moves with them to Boston in 1910, moves to 2 Dilworth Street in 1925, and graduates from English High School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, and later Boston University. He moves to 410 Columbus Avenue in 1940, marries Jackie Cox, and goes on to become a draftsman at the Boston Naval Shipyard (1940-1970) and one of the foremost painters in Boston. He subsequently tells the Boston Globe. “I was using the Black figure to tell the story of man.” Crite moves to a home and studio at 410 Columbus Avenue in 1971, move to Tent City in 2005, and dies there on September 6, 2007.