Chiefly known as a New York architect, but b orn in Philadelphia, Abram Bastow began his architectural education at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (1903-1905), continued at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1908-1909), and the T-Square Club Atelier (1908-1909), and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1910 with his Certificate of Proficiency. Soon after graduation he was associated with Cope & Stewardson, William C. Hays, H. Van Buren Magonigle, and William John Cherry. By 1918 Bastow had launched his own firm and continued working independently until 1925. In 1925 he established Bastow & Way and in 1928 Latenser-Bastow & Way. In 1930 he joined the staff of F. W. Dodge Corporation in the Sweet's Catalogue Division. Bastow appears to have retired in 1955.

Bastow joined the AIA in 1921.

Written by Sandra L. Tatman.