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Charles S. Frost papers (N 48), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Charles Frost was born in Lewiston, Maine, on May 31, 1856. He studied architecture for three years in several architects' offices and completed a special course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a draftsman in Boston where he worked for three years before moving to Chicago in 1882. There, he entered partnership with Henry Ives Cobb, establishing the architectural firm Cobb & Frost (1882-1889). Afterward, he practiced alone for several years until becoming a partner in the firm of Frost & Granger, which was a highly successful practice based upon railroad commissions. In 1911, following the breakup of the partnership, he maintained a private practice for the remainder of his working life. Charles Frost died in Chicago December 11, 1931.
The collection includes a complete set of plans for the St. Paul Union Depot, erected in 1918, consisting of 29 sheets of blueline prints (originals in the possession of the Minnesota Transfer Railway Company of St. Paul). Also, there is a set of blueprints for a bank to be located in the Railway Headquarters Building, St. Paul (1918), the home office of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads, an incomplete set of plans for the Great Northern depot in Minneapolis, MN, razed in 1975, and plans for the Milwaukee Road Depot and Train Shed (Minneapolis, 1898).
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