Background
Robrt R. Graham was born in 1891 at Syracuse, New York, United States.
Robrt R. Graham was born in 1891 at Syracuse, New York, United States.
Mr. Graham began architectural study at Syracuse University, and following graduation in 1914 continued his training in New York at the Atlier Corbett.
He began work as a draftsman in the Albany office of the State Architect, and following his return to New York was employed successively by Ernest Flagg and John Russell Pope.
Enlisting in the U. S. Navy during the first World War, Mr. Graham was on the armored cruiser San Diego from late 1917 to July 19, 1918, on which date the ship was mysteriously sunk near Fire Island, New York, probably by a German submarine. After his rescue he attended Officers' School at Annapolis until the close of the war, subsequently returned to New York. During his more than twenty years of independent practice in the city Mr. Graham devoted his time and attention mainly to school work, becoming an authority in that field of design. More than forty buildings are said to have been erected from his plans, a notable example being the Franklin D. Roosevelt School at Hyde Park, N. Y. In 1940 he was cited by the National Advisory Committee of School Buildings as one of the leading architects in the country engaged in school work.