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The Architecture of McKim, Mead, and White - 1879-1915 (Paperback)
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The Architecture of McKim, Mead, and White - 1879-1915 (Paperback)
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For forty years (1880 1920), the now-legendary architectural firm
led by Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead and Stanford
White was responsible for many of the finest buildings in America.
The Boston Public Library, Pennsylvania Station in New York, and
the campus of Columbia University are among the national landmarks
designed by these men and their partners, Bert Fenner and William
Mitchell Kendall. This anthology of plans, elevations, and details
of major works of McKim, Mead, and White is an invaluable reference
source and inspiration for the student of architecture. As Allan
Greenberg writes in his introduction: The legacy of McKim, Mead,
and White] is so vast that . . . both its outer boundaries and its
inner characteristics are only barely discernible. As architects of
some of the most important buildings in the history of American
architecture, the work of the office of McKim, Mead, and White
reached a level of quality which has never been equaled by any
large office before or after. Charles Follen McKim cofounded the
firm with William Rutherford Mead in 1878, along with his
brother-in-law William B. Bigelow. One year later, Bigelow left the
firm and was replaced by young Stanford White. Among the
commissions that McKim worked on were the Villard Houses, the
Boston Public Library, the Chicago World s Fair Columbian
Exposition and the Agriculture Building, the Columbia University
campus, Symphony Hall in Boston, alterations to the White House,
the Pierpont Morgan Library, Pennsylvania Station, and the
University Club in New York. Stanford White, who, ironically, had
replaced Charles McKim at the firm of Gambrill and Richardson in
New York, joined the partnership in September 1879. A young,
enthusiastic man who could draw like a house afire, in the words of
McKim, White was responsible for many of the firm s great
architectural projects, including Madison Square Garden; the
Washington Arch; the Judson Memorial Church; what is now Bronx
Community College, and the accompanying Hall of Fame of Great
Americans; the Tiffany Building, and the Gorham Building. His life
and career ended abruptly at the age of fifty-three, when he was
murdered on the roof of Madison Square Garden in a well-publicized
shooting incident in 1906.
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