Collection F2041 - Frank T. Lent collection

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Frank T. Lent collection

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  • [1898?] (Creation)
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    Lent, Franklin Townsend

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11 photographs : b&w negatives ; 10.5 x 9.0 cm, 11 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm, 23 architectural drawings

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(1855-1919)

Biographical history

Frank T. Lent was born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on 3 March 1855 and entered the military academy there at a young age. He later graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey and began an apprenticeship with the leading New York firm of Potter & Roberston. After 1880 he practiced his profession in Colorado, in New York City (in 1890 and again in 1896-97), in Lowell, Mass. in 1894, and in Boston after 1897. One of his major projects from this period was an elaborate Colonial style summer mansion located in York Cliffs, Maine, part of a seaside estate of 13 mansions, eight of which still stand and are now listed on United States National Register of Historic Places (26 July 1984). This residence, for an unidentified client, may be the mansion now called "Boulder Cottage" (c. 1894), or the mansion called "Pinehurst Cottage", (c. 1895). From 1900 Lent appears to have taken up permanent year-round residency in Gananoque, Ont. where he served a large number of American and Canadian clients who spent their summers in the nearby resort area of the Thousand Islands. By 1910 he had left Ontario and had moved to Leominster, Massachusetts where he continued to practise.

As an author, he published three pattern books of plans including Sensible Suburban Residences (1894), Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture (1895), and Summer Homes and Camps (1899). Many of these designs were likely used as the basis for summer house projects in the Thousand Islands on both sides of the Canadian-American border, particularly in the summer town of Thousand Island Park on Wellesley Island, N.Y. Lent died in Sterling, Mass. on 3 December 1919.

Custodial history

The original material pertaining to Big White Calf Island was generously loaned for copying to Professor Pierre du Prey by Mr. James Bernier on 27 September, 2001. The second accession was donated for copying by Mr. James Bernier on 21 November, 2002. The material pertaining to Bermingham and Carter House is of unknown provenance and has been in the Kingston Architectural Drawings collection, as individual items since 197? and were added to this collection at a later date.

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Fonds consists of eleven photographic copies of pen and ink on linen drawings, executed by the Boston architect, Frank T. Lent, for two separate, yet similar, plans of a summer home designed for Dr. Edward Atkinson, to be located on Big White Calf Island in the Thousand Islands, Ontario. Also included are drawings for Bermingham House amd Carter House.

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  • English

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V126.12 SE
Map 67

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KAD 39

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  • Shelf: V126.12 SE
  • Map cabinet: (302) Map 67