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HOWARD PAGE CROSS 1910 - 1975

Howard Page Cross died on August 28, 1975, at the age of 65.  At his death he was Chairman of the National Collection of Fine Arts Commission.  He had been a member of the Commission since February, 1964, and was elected Chairman in December, 1973.

Son of the distinguished architect John Walter Cross, he carried on in his own profession the finest traditions of American architecture.  Born in New York City, he was graduated from Yale University and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Architecture by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  After a year with the firm of Van der Gracht and Killham, he was associated with his father's firm, Cross and Cross, until his professional career was interrupted by the Second World War.  He served as a major in the Marine Corps.  In 1946 he returned to the practice of architecture.  The firm then became Cross and Son.

His principal works are:  the Foxcroft School Dormitory and study, Middleburg, Virginia; American F. O. R. E. Insurance Co., New York City; Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Virginia; the Library at Choate School, Wallingford Connecticut; the Hellenic Studies Center in Washington; and the residences of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Manchester, Massachusetts, and of Paul Mellon in Upperville, Virginia.

He was strongly influenced by the Georgian style, and in all of