Stanford White
Stanford White (born November 9, 1853 in New York City , † June 25, 1906 ) was an important American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Life
Without having attended a degree in architecture in the true sense (he was only assistant was an architect for several years), the son founded a wealthy writer in 1880 with Charles McKim and William Rutherford Mead , the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White , at an became the leading and most prominent in the United States .
White soon established himself as the architect of the wealthy East Coast upper class, whose country houses and town residences he gave an aristocratic character with the typical style of those years. An excellent example of White's successful epigonism is the Rosecliff (1898–1902) manor in Newport , which was modeled on the Grand Trianon . These celebrities also helped to major public works such as Washington Square Arch (1889-1895), Madison Square Garden II (1890 built, demolished 1925), Pennsylvania Station (1910 completed) and the campus of Columbia University - all of New York - as well as At the University of Virginia, the prestigious, burned-out Rotunda library (largely restored to its state of 1826 in the 1970s) and the centrally located university building, Old Cabell Hall, were reconstructed and rebuilt .
White was shot dead by Harry Kendall Thaw , husband of his former lover Evelyn Nesbit , on the roof garden of the old Madison Square Garden he built . The great importance of the McKim, Mead, and White office suffered from White's death and ended with the First World War . The year he died he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters .
The story of the murder of Stanford White was filmed in 1955 under the title The girl in the red velvet swing (Eng. Title: The girl on the velvet swing ) with Ray Milland and Joan Collins .
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Madison Square Garden II (1890)
Washington Square Arch (1889–1895)
Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia (1896)
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Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Stanford White. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Stanford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1906 |
| Place of death | new York |