Charles Follen McKim

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Charles Follen McKim. Portrait of Frances Benjamin Johnston .

Charles Follen McKim (born August 24, 1847 in Chester County , Pennsylvania , USA ; † September 14, 1909 ) was one of the most prominent American architects of Beaux Arts architecture of the late 19th century and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects . Together with Stanford White and William Rutherford Mead , he founded the architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White in 1880 .

Life

McKim's middle name goes back to Charles Follen , a well-known abolitionist and Unitarian minister. After graduating from Harvard University , he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then worked in the office of Henry Hobson Richardson from 1870 . McKim later founded his own company in partnership with the engineer William Rutherford Mead , in which the protégé of Richardson Stanford White also joined as a partner in 1877 .

Work

For ten years, the architecture firm was primarily known for the planning and construction of continuous, informal summer houses. McKim, on the other hand, became known mainly for his Beaux-Art architectural style, which represented the American Renaissance and is reflected, among other things, in the architecture of the Boston Public Library, which was built in 1887 . Also worth mentioning are some of his works in New York City , in particular the Morningside Heights Campus of Columbia University (1893), the University Club of New York (1899), the Pierpont Morgan Library (1903), New York Pennsylvania Station (1904– 10) and the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown , Ohio (1919). McKim also designed the Howard Mansion in New York's Hyde Park in 1896 .

With the help of Richard Morris Hunt , McKim founded the American School of Architecture in Rome in 1894 , now known as the American Academy in Rome . For this he designed the most important buildings on campus together with his company.

McKim received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Médaille d'or du CNRS at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , the Royal Gold Medal from Edward VII and honorary doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University . He was also elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1877 and was posthumously awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1909 . Since 1898 he was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wayne Craven: Gilded mansions - grand architecture and high society . WW Norton & Co., New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5 .
  2. ^ King Edward Honors Charles F. McKIM . In: The New York Times . June 9, 1903 (English).
  3. ^ Charles Moore: The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim . Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston / New York 1929, OCLC 1575291 , p. 204-241 (English).
  4. ^ Members: Charles Follen McKim. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME McKim, Charles Follen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Chester County , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1909