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in the Studio building. He relocated to Portland, Maine after a fire in that city on July 4, 1866. He assisted with the rebuilding of the city. He remained in Portland for two years before returning to Boston, where he worked for N.J. Bradlee. He started his own firm in 1869, and in 1870, formed a
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Weston died at the age of 67 in 1911. His wishes were for his body to be cremated and his ashes mixed with those of his wife. In 1926 it was discovered that this had not happened, and that his ashes were still in the undertaker's storage room. The members of the Boston Bicycling Club could not
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In 1877, Frank Weston formed a business partnership with Arthur Cunningham, Sidney Heath, and Harold Williams to import bicycles to the United States. The new firm, Cunningham, Heath, and Company, started a bicycle riding school when it received its first order of
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of England, originally the Bicycle Touring Club. He organized races, one hundred-mile bicycle club runs and "the first hundred mile tricycle club run" in the United States. Weston served as first vice-president of the
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Frank Weston was born July 13, 1843, in the Oxford Terrace, England. He studied at private schools before training as an architect. He emigrated from England to the United States, arriving in Boston on June 1, 1866.
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Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950: a history and guide
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from England. Weston withdrew from active management of the firm and founded the
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University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, p.169.
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partnership with George Rand. The firm of Weston and Rand designed the
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In February 1878, Weston and thirteen fellow cyclists launched the
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and president of the Pioneers of the League of American Wheelmen.
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located his wife's ashes, but decided to scatter his at the
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Massachusetts Insane Hospital
Worcester


Essex Town Hall and TOHP Burnham Library
English
Portland, Maine
Boston
Massachusetts
Boston Bicycling Club
William Ralph Emerson
Hotel Agassiz
Commonwealth Avenue
Clarendon Street
Boston Back Bay
Savin Hill
Malden
Essex Town Hall and TOHP Burnham Library
Essex, Massachusetts
Shingle style
National Register of Historic Places
Massachusetts Insane Hospital
Worcester
Lynn, Massachusetts
Queen Anne
high-wheelers
Boston Bicycle Club
Cyclists' Touring Club
League of American Wheelmen

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