Mead attended Norwich University for 2 years , graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in the class of 1867 , and later studied architecture under George Fletcher Babb in Russell Sturgis 's office in New York City .
Mead attended Norwich University for two years and graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in the class of 1867 . 
 He later learned architecture under George Fletcher Babb in Russell Sturgis 's office in New York City .