Frank Mills Andrews

Who was Frank Mills Andrews?

Frank Mills Andrews was an American architect born in Des Moines, Iowa, who practiced in Chicago, New York City, Cincinnati and Dayton. Andrews died in Brooklyn, New York.

Andrews studied civil engineering at Iowa State College in Ames and architecture at Cornell University, where he was graduated with an A. B. degree in 1888.

The son of Lorenzo Frank Andrews and the former Sophia Maxwell Dolson, he married actress Pauline Frerick in 1909; she bore him one daughter. In 1927, he was remarried to Ellen Brown, by whom he fathered a son and two daughters: Frank II, Doris, and Audrey. Among his commissions were:

Kentucky State Capitol

Montana State Capitol wings

Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Michigan

National Cash Register plant, Dayton, Ohio

Hotel McAlpin, New York City

George Washington Hotel, New York City

Columbia Club, Indianapolis

Dayton Arcade and Conover Building, Dayton, Ohio

He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts and appeared in Who's Who of America, and upon his death, the New York Times published an obituary for him.