Draft:Frank E. Estabrook

Frank E. Estabrook (1860 – May 24, 1918) was an American architect based in Newburgh, New York who specialized in schools and other public buildings.

He grew up and attended school in Newburgh, then studied at architecture at Boston Polytechnic (is that Wentworth Institute of Technology?). He then returned to Newburgh in 1891 and began his career.

"Unfortunately little is known of Estabrook. He was bom in July 1860 and during his youth graduated from the Newburgh Free Academy. According to the Portrait & Biographical Record of Orange County, Estabrook worked as an assistant librarian and bookkeeper before developing an interest in architecture, at which time he began taking classes at Columbia College and working in various architectural offices in New York City. He opened up an architectural office in Newburgh in 1891. His records and personal papers are presumed lost."

He authored a "souvenir" book in 1895 which presented a collection of photos and other illustrations of hotels, churches, homes, and public buildings which he designed. This may have been a sales or marketing tool and it included business card type advertisements from plumbers, carpenters, painters and others he worked with; he "wrote that the book 'may be of interest and values to parties who propose to build.'"

His works included:
 * Broadway School, Newburgh
 * Newburgh YWCA, Newburgh
 * Quassaick Bank, Newburgh
 * Wheelmen's Club, Newburgh
 * Duplex house at 202-204 Montgomery Street (photographed in 1895), Newburgh, home of Estabrook and his wife, and of Lillie Estabrook, Frank's sister, who was Newburgh's librarian for many years
 * Mrs. M. D. McClughan residence (photographed in 1895), 245 Grand St., Newburgh, which also appears to be a duplex
 * Public School No. 6 (photographed in 1895), aka Liberty Street School, 1 Liberty St., Newburgh;
 * Duplex residences of Everett Garrison and A. F. Holden (photographed in 1895), 80-82 First Street, Newburgh;
 * Caleb Woodruff home (photographed in 1895), 39 Lutheran St., Newburgh;
 * Colonel George A. Cantine home (photographed in 1895), 322 Grand St., Newburgh, whose keystone in arch over its front porch contains the original house number "522";
 * Frederick W. Parsons residence (photographed in 1895), 144 Third Street, Newburgh, Queen Anne-style;
 * John A. Staples residence (photographed in 1895), 12 Bay View Terrace, Newburgh;
 * Colonel Charles H. Weygant residence (photographed in 1895), 14 Bay View Terrace, Newburgh, Queen Anne-style, overlooking the Hudson River
 * the pergola (1908) of Downing Park, Newburgh, which complemented Calvert Vaux and Frederick Olmstead's earlier creations in the park;
 * the George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building (1917), 2 Liberty St., corner of Liberty and Canal Sts., Village of Ellenville, New York, individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places and also contributing in the Ellenville Downtown Historic District. This was built, largely in Classical Revival style but with elements of Colonial Revival and other styles as well,  to serve as headquarters for the local Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and it long served as Ellenville's public library.
 * "Granite Fortess" (1895), a Romanesque Revival style house, in Upstate New York, where Ian Stephen later recorded [possibly/likely one of the Newburgh houses0

Estabrook died in an accident in Brooklyn.