Background
Frank B. Meade was born in 1867 at Norwalk, Ohio, United States.
Frank B. Meade was born in 1867 at Norwalk, Ohio, United States.
After graduation from the City High School the youth entered the Case School of Applied Science, intending to become a Mechanical Engineer, but with evidence of a naturai talent for drawing and design he was advised to take up Architecture. In 1885 he went to Boston for a course of professional study at M. I. T. and on its conclusion graduated with the class of 1888.
During the next few years Meade remained in Boston working for some of the leading architectural firms, then moved to Chicago to become a draftsman with Jenney, Mundie & Jensen. The firm at that time was busy in designing some of the buildings for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1894.
Returning to Cleveland in the fall of 1893, Mr. Meade formed a partnership with the late Alfred Hoyt Granger and established an office in the Garfield Building (now the National City Bank Building). After three years of practice in that association Mr. Granger withdrew to open an office in Chicago, and Meade subsequently joined Abram Garfield in organizing the firm of Meade & Garfield, which was continued until 1911. During the last phase of his career he carried on work in association with James M. Hamiliton until the latter s death in 1941.
Throughout a long and active career in the profession, Mr. Meade’s work comprised various types of buildings too numerous to list in detail. In general however his best known buildings were for business and commercial use, also country clubs and many fine private residences not only in the Cleveland area but in locations all over the country.
Meade was a member and past president of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, CLEVELAND CHAPTER and a member of CLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Meade married Dora Rucker on November 3, 1898 and they had no children.