McKim, Mead, and White was a prominent architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The firm's partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), and Stanford White (1853-1906), along with many other associates and designers.
McKim and White had both worked under Henry Hobson Richardson. McKim and Mead joined forces in 1872, and were joined by White in 1879. Their work app...
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McKim, Mead, and White was a prominent architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The firm's partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), and Stanford White (1853-1906), along with many other associates and designers.
McKim and White had both worked under Henry Hobson Richardson. McKim and Mead joined forces in 1872, and were joined by White in 1879. Their work applied the principles of Beaux-Arts architecture, the adoption of the classical Greek and Roman stylistic vocabulary as filtered through the Parisian Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and the related City Beautiful movement after 1893 or so, which aimed to clean up the visual confusion of American cities and imbue them with a sense of order and noble formality.
Known for its Beaux-Arts architecture at the turn of the 20th century, the firm retained its name after the death of the last original partner in 1928, and onward into the 1960s. The firm designed...
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