Résumé

Partner, [Charles Barton] Keen and Mead, Architects, Philadelphia, PA, c. 1894-1901. Mead worked with a Charles Barton Keen (1868-1931), with whom he worked in the Philadelphia architectural office of Frank Miles Day (1861-1918). Of Keen and Mead, the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings database stated: "Both Charles Barton Keen and Frank Mead were products of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and they both had worked for Frank Miles Day. The firm's earliest work is residential; and like many young architects of the time, they found favor with developers of some of the suburban communities then established in Philadelphia, first working with Wendell & Smith in the development of the Pelham neighborhood of Germantown and later in Overbrook, off of City Line Avenue in Philadelphia. By 1901, when the partnership dissolved, they were also connected to William T. B. Roberts, producing designs for houses at Ogontz Park and at Glenside, PA." (See Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.org, "Frank E. Mead," accessed 01/12/2024.)

Draftsman, Hebbard and Gill, Architects, San Diego, CA, 1906-06/1907.

Partner, Mead and Requa, Architects, San Diego, CA.

Professional Activities

Member, T-Square Club, Philadelphia, PA.

Vice-president, T-Square Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1891.

Member, American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter. According to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings database, he also "served as librarian for its Philadelphia Chapter." (See Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.org, "Frank E. Mead," accessed 01/12/2024.)

Relocation

He resided at 3732 1st Street in San Diego, CA, in 1907. (See San Diego, California, City Directory, 1907, p. 353.)

Biographical Notes

Prior to 01/12/2024, PCAD incorrectly identified Frank E. Mead as "Francis H. Mead," (1862-1931) who was an English-born physician practicing in San Diego from about 1893 until his death in 1931. Francis Henry Mead's name (original PCAD Architect #1102 now deleted) appeared above that of Frank Mead in the San Diego, California, City Directory, 1907, (p. 353) and that is, perhaps, how this error began.

Francis H. Mead, San Diego's city health officer in 1910, was a booster of the city, who proclaimed its healthful advantages in an article, "San Diego Its Advantages from a Climatic and Hygienic Standpoint," Pacific Municipalities, vol. XXIII, no. 3, 10/1910, p. 114. He also was an avid botanist, who wrote for The Pacific Garden. (See "Orchids," The Pacific Garden, 02/1912, p. 5.)