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{{Short description|American architect (1891–1977)}}

{{Infobox architect

|name = John M. Gray

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|nationality = American

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|10|10}}

|birth_place = Salem, Massachusetts

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|11|21|1887|10|10}}

|death_place = Salem, Massachusetts

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|awards = Fellow, American Institute of Architects (1964)

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File:East Boston High School (4).jpg, designed by Gray and completed in 1926.]]

File:Clarence Edwards Middle School.jpg, designed by Gray and completed in 1931.]]

File:2017 Traffic Tunnel Administration Building.jpg in Boston, designed by Gray and completed in 1931.]]

John M. Gray {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (October 10, 1887 – November 21, 1977)

Life and career

John Mathew Gray was born October 10, 1887 in Salem, Massachusetts. He attended the Salem public schools before joining Boston architects Little & Browne in 1903 as a student drafter. He then worked as a drafter for other Boston architects, moving to the office of Edward T. P. Graham in 1906 and Clarence H. Blackall in 1908 before entering the architecture school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied as a special student, earning his cerfificate in 1910. He then joined the office of Codman & Despradelle, remaining with them until 1914, when he joined Joseph McGinnis. In 1918 he left McGinnis to open his own office.

Architectural works