Frank Townsend Lent

Lent designed many suburban and summer cottage homes in Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, and Ontario around the turn of the century in the Victorian and Edwardian architectural period.

Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture: containing Hints, Suggestions, and Bits of Practical Information for the Building of Inexpensive Country Houses (Frank T. Lent, Cranford, New Jersey, 1893); Sensible Suburban Architecture: containing Suggestions, Hints, and Practical Ideas, Sketches, Plans, etc., for the Building of Country Homes (Frank T. Lent, Tremont Building, Boston, 1894); Summer Homes and Camps: containing Suggestions, Hints, and Practical Ideas, Sketches, Plans, etc., for the Building of Summer Homes (Frank T. Lent, Tremont Building, Boston, 1899).

Lent studied at the Poughkeepsie Military Institute and then attended Rutgers University, and graduated in 1878 with a master's degree in science.

Lent is thought to have possibly traveled up to Cranford to sketch the Rahway River while he was a student at Rutgers.

The National Academy of Design, as well as other metropolitan art exhibitions, have contained many charming landscapes by such men as Bruce Crane and Hugh Bolton Jones, the material for which was gathered in Union County."