McKim, Mead, and White

The McKim, Mead, and White architectural partnership was the largest and most influential architecture firm in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century . It was founded in 1879 by Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead . Later, Stanford White added. McKim and White had studied under Henry Hobson Richardson .

Stylistically, the buildings of the group of architects - including often villas and office buildings - can be assigned to the historicism of the Beaux Arts movement .

Stanford White was shot dead by heir millionaire Harry K. Thaw in a high-profile criminal case in 1906 .

The company in the second half of the 20th century

Although the architecture office experienced its heyday with its Beaux Arts architecture at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, it still existed under its original name until the 1960s. The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC is one of the last works and was completed in 1964.

McKim, Mead, and White were also involved in an urban renewal project at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn during the 1950s and contributed three buildings to the project: the DeKalb Hall , the ISC Building, and the North Hall . In 1961 McKim, Mead and White was renamed Steinman, Cain, and White and in 1971 it was replaced by Walker O. Cain and Associates .

Works (selection)

Rhode Island State House, Providence, completed in 1904

Manhattan Municipal Building , built 1909–1915

Pennsylvania Station , New York City, built from 1905 to 1910

• 110 Livingston Street , Brooklyn , New York City , formerly Elks Lodge.
• 998 Fifth Avenue , New York City
• American Academy in Rome (main building)
• John F. Andrews Mansion , 32 Hereford Street, Boston , Massachusetts
• Isaac Bell House , Newport , Rhode Island
• Bellevue Hospital Center
• Boston Public Library , Boston, Massachusetts.
• Brooklyn Museum , Brooklyn, New York City
• The Cable Building, 611 Broadway 1892, New York City
• Century Club , New York City
• Campus of Columbia University in Morningside Heights (1895): overall design and individual buildings, among others Low Memorial Library , Philosophy Hall , John Jay Hall , Hamilton Hall
• Harvard Club of New York , New York City
• Johnston Gate , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts.
• John Howard Whittemore House Naugatuck , Connecticut (1880s)
• James Farley Post Office (often viewed as an architectural twin to Pennsylvania Station in New York City)
• Faunce House (then Rockefeller Hall) at Brown University , Providence , Rhode Island (1904)
• Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College , Amherst , Massachusetts, (1890)
• Dietrich Hall, now Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, University of Pennsylvania , 1952
• The Garden City Hotel , Garden City , New York
• Grand Army Plaza , Brooklyn, New York
• Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College (formerly New York University )
• Harbor Hill on Long Island , built 1899–1902, destroyed in 1947.
• Hotel Pennsylvania
• Levermore Hall, Blodgett Hall and Woodruff Hall of Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
• Liggett Hall, Governors Island , New York.
• Lullwater Bridge , Prospect Park , Brooklyn, New York City.
• Madison Square Garden II in Madison Square , New York City (the second of four buildings that bore this name)
• Manhattan Municipal Building , 1 Center Street, New York City.
• Maryland Monument , Lookout Hill , Prospect Park , Brooklyn, New York City.
• Cyrus McCormick's summer residence in Richfield Springs , New York (1882; leveled 1957)
• Metropolitan Club , 1 East 60th St, New York City.
• Morgan Library , New York City.
• Milwaukee County Courthouse , Milwaukee , Wisconsin (1931)
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts , Minneapolis , Minnesota
• Naugatuck High School Naugatuck, Connecticut (1904); (since 1959 Hillside Middle School)
• Narragansett Pier Casino , Narragansett , Rhode Island
• Newport Casino , Newport, Rhode Island
• Omaha Building in Omaha , Nebraska (originally known as the New York Life Building)
• Old Cabell Hall, Cocke Hall, and Rouss Hall of the University of Virginia , Charlottesville .
• Olin Memorial Library , Wesleyan University , Middletown , Connecticut.
• Parade Place , Lookout Hill, Prospect Park , Brooklyn, New York City
• Pennsylvania Station , Newark , New Jersey
• Pennsylvania Station , New York City (parts of the structure above the ground were demolished in 1965)
• Peoples State Bank, Detroit , Michigan
• Peristyle , Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City
• Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument , Brooklyn, New York City.
• Racquet and Tennis Club , New York City.
• Reid Hall , Manhattanville College , Purchase , New York.
• Rhode Island State House , Providence, Rhode Island.
• Rosecliff , Newport, Rhode Island.
• Savoy Plaza Hotel , New York City.
• Salem School in Naugatuck, Connecticut (1884).
• Schenectady City Hall, Schenectady , New York.
• University Club of New York , New York City.
• University Cottage Club , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey.
• Villard Houses , 451 Madison Avenue , New York City.
• Whittemore Memorial Library , Naugatuck, Connecticut (1894)
• Walker Art Building, Bowdoin College , Brunswick , Maine ( 1894 ).
• Washington Arch in Washington Square Park , New York City.
• West wing of the White House in Washington, DC including the renovation of the main wing under Theodore Roosevelt in 1902/1903.
• English Building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana , Illinois

Well-known architects who worked for this company

• Harrie Thomas Lindeberg began as an assistant at Stanford and stayed with the company until his death in 1906.
• Lewis Colt Albro , who later worked with Lindeberg on a number of projects
• William Alciphron Boring worked for the company in 1890 before going independent with Edward Lippincott Tipton , on whom much of the design of the Boston Public Library can be traced back.
• Charles Lewis Bowman , who was responsible for many homes in Eastchester, New York, worked for McKim, Stanford, and White until 1922.
• Walker O. Cain worked for the company, took it over and renamed it several times after 1961.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Smithsonian Institute: National Museum of American History - Mission & History . Retrieved February 24, 2008.
2. ^ Pratt Institute: DeKalb Hall 1954-55 . Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 24, 2008. 
3. ^ Hilary Ballon & Kenneth T. Jackson: Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York , p. 374.
4. ↑ Hawthorne-Longfellow ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 20, 2015. 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Blackwell, D. and The Naugatuck Historical Society (1996) "Images of Naugatuck". Arcadia Publishing
6. ^ Bluffton University Digital Imagine Project