Background
Frank A. Bourne was born in 1873 in Bangor, Maine, United States.
Frank A. Bourne was born in 1873 in Bangor, Maine, United States.
After a formal education at the University of Maine, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied architecture under Professor Despradelle.
In Boston he entered the office of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge for a period of practical training, later established practice for himself in the city. His early works included many churches built in the New England states of which should be mentioned the Congregational Church at Winchester, Mass.; Central Congregational at Bangor, Me.; Mission of the Epiphany, Dorchester, Mass.; St. Luke’s Episcopal at Chelsea, Mass.; St. John's Church, Franklin, Mass.; Church of Our Lady of the Snows, Dublin, N. H., and the Church of All Nations at Boston. He was also architect in charge of the work of moving the old Charles Street Church in Boston to a new location and the subsequent restoration of the historic edifice.
In later years Mr. Bourne devoted much of his time to residential work, designing many attractive homes in suburban sites, and in Boston it is said that at least fifty houses on Beacon Street and twenty more on other streets in the city's "Back Bay" were built from his plans. Among various other works he prepared plans for the Ray Memorial School and Dean Academy at Franklin, Mass., and between 1915 and 1924 was architect of the Morgan Memorial Buildings in Boston. He was the author of a number of books, including "A Study of the Orders of Architecture,” published in 1906, also wrote numerous articles for the architectural magazines.
