Background
Horace S. Frazer was born in 1862 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Horace S. Frazer was born in 1862 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
He was educated in Engineering and Agriculture at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and "Boston Tech," and was graduated at the latter school in 1885.
He entered the office of Cabot & Chandler for a period of practical training. Later he served as draftsman with the firm of Peabody & Stearns, and after leaving that office in 1890 practiced independently for a year, subsequently joined the late J. H. Chapman in organizing the firm of Chapman & Frazer. Following his partner's decease in 1895, Mr. Frazer continued practice under the firm name and in the ensuing years acquired a reputation in domestic architecture. He designed many fine homes in Boston and environs, one notable example being the old Lindsay house on Bay Street Road, later occupied by Doctor Marsh, president of Boston University.