"[5] Within a year, Frost had four women students and another professor, the landscape architect Bremer Whidden Pond, had come on board.

[4] The first two women to complete the school's three-year program were Brooks and landscape architect Rose Greely; a later graduate was Eleanor Raymond.

[5] A problem in the school's early years had been its inability to issue formal degrees, which are required in most states in order to register as a licensed architect.

[5] In the 1930s, after Harvard refused to become a formal degree-granting partner for the school, it moved its affiliation to Smith College.

[4][5] Apart from teaching, Frost had his own solo architectural practice specializing in private residences, with an office in Harvard Square.

[2] Frost died at Sheltering Arms Hospital on May 26, 1952, in Athens, Ohio, due to injuries he suffered from an automobile crash.