Albert Randolph Ross, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlbert Randolph Ross
American architect
Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1868
Date of Death: 27-Oct-1948
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Albert Randolph Ross
- Albert Randolph Ross (October 26, 1868 – October 27, 1948) was an American architect.
- Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, he was a son of architect John W.
- Ross.
- Albert Ross attended grammar school in Westfield and later in Davenport, Iowa, where he went on to high school, finishing in 1884.
- After working as a draughtsman in his father's Davenport architecture office from 1884 to 1887, he spent a year working for an architect in Buffalo, New York, before joining the New York City firm of McKim, Mead and White in 1891.
- In 1898, he formed the firm of Ackerman & Ross with William S.
- Ackerman, a partnership which dissolved in 1901.In 1927, when he was awarded a $10,000 prize in a competition to design a new courthouse for Milwaukee out of 33 who submitted proposals, he told the Milwaukee Journal why he settled on a traditional design: When I went into the competition I considered whether to design a building in the modern and experimental trend for a great public courthouse.
- I made modern sketches, but in my opinion they fell flat for this purpose.
- They were not typical and expressive of public work, so I turned to that type established by our forefathers....
- I have no quarrel with trends in modern architecture.
- I take a fling at it myself.
- But it simply won't do for public buildings.
- It violates the dictates of a definite style built up through one hundred and fifty years of our history.
- A departure into modernism would not be suitable for a courthouse.
- We must be trained slowly to things violently new.
- The public's money cannot rightly be used to force experiments down its throat. In 1901, Ross married Susan Husted, from Brookline, Massachusetts.
- From 1901 until 1948 his main residence was on Negro Island, near Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
- He died October 27, 1948.
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