Plaster,9 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches
(24.13 by 8.89 cm.), collection of SGNHS

Charles Adams Platt (1861 - 1933) was a painter, etcher, architect, and landscape designer. He was born in New York City, son of John H. and Mary Cheney Platt. While a student at the National Academy of Design and the Arts Students League, his friend Stephen Parrish encouraged him to take up etching. In 1888, he joined Parrish in Cornish where he bought land and designed a house for himself. He later designed houses for other members of the Cornish colony. He first married Anne Hoe and, after her death in 1888, he married Eleanor Hardy Bunker. One of the incorporators of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial in 1919, Platt served as the first president of the Board of Trustees.