The majority of Holmes designed vaults are located in New York's Financial District; many are publicly accessible and in buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.

His name is engraved on the builder's plaques, typically located on the vault door's encased jamb controls.

A Holmes advertisement from 1921 reads, "Newly discovered methods of attack necessitate radical departures from hitherto accepted standards of design".

The industry owes much of its progress to the work done by the pioneers of this profession: William H. Hollar,[8] John M. Mossman, George L. Damon,[9] Emil A. Strauss,[10] Frederick S. Holmes, Benjamin F. Tripp,[11] and George L. Remington.”[12] Holmes is known to have collaborated with all these vault engineering greats except for Strauss.

He died eight years later from arteriosclerotic heart disease on November 10th, 1948 in Hathorne, MA at the age of 84 and was buried at Exeter Cemetery in New Hampshire.

This list includes articles, copyrights, court testimony, interviews, patents, and speeches by Frederick S. Holmes in chronological order.