Manuscript Group 1057, George W. and Harriet Estelle Blackman Papers, 1849 – 1931

 

Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs

 

1057.  KRAMER, GEORGE W.  AND
HARRIET ESTELLE

 
BLACKMAN

 
Papers, 1849-1931. 150 items.

 
Diaries, correspondence, poetry, scrapbooks of George W.

 

Kramer
(1848- 1938), and Harriet Estelle Blackman, whom he

 

married
in 1870. Of special interest is Kramer’s “Domestic Civil
&

 

Ecclesiastical
Architecture…,” a scrapbook documenting his

 

fifty-year
career as an architect. George W. Kramer was born in

 

Ashland,
Ohio, where he began to pursue a career in architecture

 

in
1873. From 1879 to 1894 he worked in Akron, Ohio as partner

 

in
the firms ofJacob Snyder and later Kramer and Weary. Kramer

 

in
1894 moved to New York City, where he established an architectural
firm eventually known as George W. Kramer and Son.

 

He
designed 2,219 churches and sunday schools in this country

 

and
abroad, including 45 in New Jersey. A long-time resident of

 

East Orange, Kramer was a founder of the
Western Association of

 

Architects. It later merged with the
American Institute of Ar-

 

chitects of which Kramer was a member and
fellow. This collection

 

also includes some Kramer and Blackman
family papers and

 

genealogy.

 

 

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