Albert Randolph Ross

Who was Albert Randolph Ross?

Albert Randolph Ross 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. After leaving that firm in 1897, he started the firm of Ackerman and Ross, which operated from 1898 to 1901.

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.