Background
Ralph Harrington Doane was born in 1886 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He arrived in Boston at an early age.
Ralph Harrington Doane was born in 1886 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He arrived in Boston at an early age.
After graduating in 1908 from the Mount Hermon School for Boys, entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1916 he was appointed Consulting Architect for the Philippine Government and for two years supervised the construction of the Capitol at Manila and other buildings on the Islands. After leaving there in 1918 he returned to the U. S. to be commissioned an officer in the U. S. Engineering Corps.
Following the close of the first World War Mr. Doane opened an architectural office in Boston, and in his early practice designed a number of Apartment houses, including the Roosevelt Apartments at Huntington Avenue and Forsythe Street, and No. 360 to 369 Beacon Street. Mr. Doane was also an expert in School Design, with the Rindge Technical High School at Cambridge a distinguished example of his work. He served on the Boston Board of School Commissioners during 1920 and 1921, also was a member of the National Advisory Council of School Building.