KRAMER, George Washington (1847-1938) of New York City was a prolific ecclesiastical architect who is credited with the design of nearly 2,200 churches during his career which spanned fifty-five years. In Canada he prepared plans for the Sunday School at St Paul's Presbyterian Church, George Street at York Street, FREDERICTON, N.B., 1916 (C.R., xxx, 17 May 1916, 47, t.c.). In 1921 he was credited with the design of the BAPTIST CHURCH, BRIDGEWATER, N.S. (Morning Herald [Halifax], 29 Jan. 1921, 9, descrip.).
Born in Ashland, Ohio he began his practise there in 1873 and later devised the 'Akron Plan' involving the semi-circular arrangement of classrooms in Sunday Schools. He moved to New York City in 1894 to open an office and remained there until 1924 when he retired. He designed churches in England, Canada, Cuba, India and China as well as in the United States where his best known works include Christ Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. and the Rockefeller Church at Lakewood, N.J. Kramer died at East Orange N.J. on 20 October 1938 (obituary in the New York Times, 21 Oct. 1938, 23; biography in H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 354-5).