Background
George W. Kramer was born in 1847 at Ashland, Ohio, United States.
George W. Kramer was born in 1847 at Ashland, Ohio, United States.
He began practice in 1873, for a few years (1879 and 1885) was associated with the late Jacob Snyder, well known at that time as a church designer. Later he became a partner in the firm of Kramer & Weary of Akron, Ohio, architects of the High School at Canton, Ohio, and the Akron High.
In 1894 Mr. Kramer opened an office in New York, and carried on an inde¬pendent practice until 1912 when his son George joined him in partnership. In his long career (over fifty years) Mr. Kramer specialized in church work and is said to have designed more than two thousand buildings, of which the following are perhaps the most important: Baptist Temple Church, Brooklyn; Rockefeller Church, Lakewood, N. J.; Union Methodist, New York: Metho¬dist at Pittsburgh (considered his outstanding work); Park Avenue Methodist, East Orange; Church of the Disciples of Christ, East Orange; Arlington Avenue Presbyterian, East Orange; East End Christian Church, Memphis, Tenn. (his last work).
He also designed severaJ of the buildings at the Ohio State Agricultural College (later known as the Ohio University), and all new buildings at Ober- lin College.