Architect. One of the most prolific architects of the early twentieth century. He studied civil engineering at Iowa State College and architecture at Cornell University graduating in 1888. He trained in the office of William Miller, Ithica, New York; worked for George B. Post, New York; followed by Jenney and Mundie, Chicago, including work on the World's Columbian Exposition. He came to Dayton, Ohio, after being asked by John Patterson to design buildings for the National Cash Register Company. From 1893 to 1907, he operated from a headquarters atop the Conover building of which he designed. His other Dayton area works include the Dayton Arcade (1899) resembling a Dutch Guild Hall; the Saint Henry's Memorial Chapel at Calvary Cemetery (from 1898 to completion in 1902) designed in the Victorian Gothic Style; and the 100 foot tall Soldiers and Sailors Memorial at Woodside Cemetery in Middletown, Ohio (completed 1902) made with the area's finest boulders hauled in by local farmers. He opened an office in Cincinnati, and operated it from 1905-1908. Venturing into hotel developments, his successes of this era are found all across the United States including the Hotel McAlpin in New York City which was the largest hotel in the world at the time. Frank was an elected member of the Royal Society of Arts, London, to which he presented a paper on the Beaux-Arts Influence on Architecture in America, which earned him their top prize in 1907. By 1910, construction was complete on the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. Frank had used the Beaux-Arts Style and included many classical French interior designs. In 1910 he returned to New York City and by 1914 was designing buildings in London and throughout the world. He resumed his American career in architecture in 1929, accumulating 22,000,000 before the Stock Market crash.