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| alma_mater = [University of Pennsylvania]]

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[[File:PhiladelphiaArtClub.jpg|thumb|The [[Art Club of Philadelphia]] was designed by Day]]

[[File:PhiladelphiaArtClub.jpg|thumb|The [[Art Club of Philadelphia]] was designed by Day]]

American architect (1861-1918)

The Art Club of Philadelphia was designed by Day

Frank Miles Day (April 5, 1861 – June 15, 1918) was an American architect who designed several buildings in Philadelphia including the Art Club of Philadelphia, the Crozer Building, and Franklin Field. He designed numerous buildings for universities including Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, University of Colorado, University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

Early life and education

Day was born in Philadelphia to Charles Day and Anna Rebecca (Miles) Day. He attended the Rittenhouse Academy in Philadelphia but was mainly educated at home by his father. In 1883, he graduated from the Towne School of the University of Pennsylvania as valedictorian and class president. He traveled in Europe and took classes at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He apprenticed in the atelier of Walter Millard and worked with Basil Champneys.[1]

He received an honorary masters of arts degree from Yale University in 1916 and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1918.[1]

Career

He returned to Philadelphia and worked with George T. Pearson and Addison Hutton prior to opening his own office in 1887. He was joined by his brother Henry Kent Day and they founded Frank Miles Day & Bro. in 1893. Charles Zeller Klauder became a partner in 1911, and the firm name was changed to Day Brothers & Klauder. From 1912 to 1927, even after Day’s 1918 death, the firm was known as Day & Klauder.[1]

1213-1215 Locust Street in Philadelphia, initially a five-story book store, designed by Day and built in 1892

He was responsible for several major commissions in Philadelphia including the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1888, the American Baptist Publication Society building in 1896, and the Free Museum of Science and Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He designed numerous buildings for universities including at Cornell University,[1], Johns Hopkins University, New York University,[2] Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University,[1] University of Colorado,[2] University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania,[1] Wellesley College,[2] and Yale University.[1]

Day was a lecturer in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania from 1890 to 1904.[2] He taught at Harvard University, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was a supervising architect for Yale University and Johns Hopkins University, and served as the supervising architect for present-day Penn State University, New York University, the University of Delaware, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.[3]

Day made major additions to the campuses of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, and Wellesley College. Day & Klauder designed 18 buildings for Princeton University, although half were Klauder’s work completed after Day’s death.[4] Day’s 1917 master plan for the University of Delaware was inspired by Thomas Jefferson‘s plan for the University of Virginia.[5] Following the firm’s 1917 master plan for the University of Colorado Boulder campus, Klauder went on to design much of that university.

Day was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1899.[6] Day was national president of the American Institute of Architects twice and a member of the Imperial Society of Russian Architects, the National Academy of Design, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Royal Institute of British Architects.[1] He was a co-founding editor of House & Garden magazine along with Wilson Eyre and Herbert Clifton Wise.[7] He was the author of American Country Houses of Today, published in 1915.

Franklin Field during the November 28, 1908 Army-Navy game, one of several University of Pennsylvania buildings designed by Day; in addition to the second Franklin Field, built in 1903 and demolished in 1922, Day designed Weightman Hall, built in 1903 and 1904 (upper left), and the current Franklin Field was designed in 1922 by Day’s partner, Charles Zeller Klauder, who also added its upper deck in 1925.

Day died June 15, 1918, and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[8]

Selected works

Philadelphia buildings

University of Pennsylvania

Princeton University

  • Holder Hall Quadrangle at Princeton University, built in 1909
  • Memorial Tower at Princeton University, built in 1911
  • Hamilton Hall at Princeton University, built in 1911
  • Princeton University Clubhouse at Princeton University, built in 1911
  • Cuyler Hall Dormitories at Princeton University, built in 1913
  • Princeton Hall (Quadrangle Club) at Princeton University, built in 1913
  • Madison Hall Dining Complex (The Commons) at Princeton University, built in 1916
  • Sage Hall Dormitories, Princeton University, built in 1916
  • Pyne Hall and Gymnasium, Princeton University, built in 1922

Pennsylvania State University

  • Stock Pavilion at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, built in 1913
  • Liberal Arts Buildings at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, built 1913–37
  • Chemical Building at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, built in 1914
  • Dairy & Creamery Building, Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, built in 1914
  • Mining Building at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, built in 1915 and later demolished

University of Delaware

Other buildings

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h “Day, Frank Miles (1861 – 1918) Architect”. www.philadelphabuildings.org. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d “Frank Miles Day 1861 – 1918”. archives.upenn.edu. University Archives and Records Center. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  3. ^ New York Times obituary, June 18, 1918.
  4. ^ Princeton Dormitories and Dining Halls
  5. ^ University of Delaware Brief History
  6. ^ “APS Member History”. search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  7. ^ Tatman, Sandra L. “Wise, Herbert Clifton (1873 – 1945) ARCHITECT”. www.philadelphabuildings.org. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  8. ^ “Frank Miles Day”. remembermyjourney.com. webCemeteries. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  9. ^ Wood houses from St. Croix Architecture.
  10. ^ “10th Presbyterian Church”. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  11. ^ New Horticultural Hall Archived 2009-04-09 at the Wayback Machine from Bryn Mawr College.
  12. ^ Newbold residence Archived 2009-04-09 at the Wayback Machine from Bryn Mawr College.
  13. ^ Philadelphia Art Alliance
  14. ^ Vernon Park Library from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
  15. ^ DC Tuberculosis Hospital photo, plans & description from Thomas Spees Carrington, Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction (National Tuberculosis Association, 1914), pp. 72-74.
  16. ^ “Trinity Episcopal Church”. Archived from the original on 2009-09-11. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  17. ^ Christopher Driscoll, Janice Elston, Newtown Square, Arcadia, 2009, p. 95
  18. ^ “Founders Hall, Wellesley College”. Archived from the original on 2009-07-05. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  19. ^ Sigma Phi from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.

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