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A history of the work and times of McKim, Mead & White, the premier, Gilded-Age, American architectural firm.

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Knopf Publishing Group
Pages
581

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Subjects
Architects, Biography, McKim, Mead & White, the Gilded Age
People
George Fletcher Babb, Charles Tracy Barney, James Gordon Bennett, Prescott Hall Butler, Henry Duveen, Richard Morris Hunt, John La Forge, Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, J. P. Morgan, Henry Hobson Richardson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Richard Norman Shaw, Harry K. Thaw, Joseph Morrill Wells, Stanford White
Places
Boston, Elberon (N.J.), New York City, Newport (R.I.), Paris, Rome
Times
1870-1910

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First Sentence

"Charles Follen McKim, the architect who would achieve international recognition as a high-minded educator, succeeded in his goal of bringing the United States up to the cultural standards of contemporary Europe."

Table of Contents

Contents Page vii
List of Illustrations Page xi
Author's Note Page xvii
Introduction: McKim, Mead & White Page xxi
1. McKim Page 3 2. “A Mighty Serious Thing” Page 12 3. To Become an Architect Page 23 4. The Marriage and Newport Page 33 5. McKim and Mead in the Early Years Page 43 6. Stratton and Wells Page 51 7. Stanford White Page 60 8. White in Europe Page 82 9. The Butlers, the Smiths, and the Stewarts Page 96 10. Joe Wells Page 124 11. The Summer House and the Seaside House Page 134 12. The Suburban House Page 179 13. City Houses Page 184 14. The End of the Picturesque Page 194 15. Success Page 199 16. Stanford White Gets Married Page 207 17. Wedding Bells for McKim and Mead Page 214 18. The Railroad Barons Page 223 19. Shifting Dynamics in the 1880s Page 232 20. Madison Square Garden Page 245 21. The Free Classical Style Page 260 22. The Boston Public Library: McKim Searches for Inspiration Page 266 23. The Men in the Office Page 273 24. Club Land Page 277 25. New York Life Insurance Builds Page 291 26. The Office at Work Page 301 27. The Washington Square Arch and Public Ceremony Page 307 28. The Stewart Bubble Bursts Page 312 29. The World of the Past Page 318 30. Back at the Office Page 327 31. Evarts, the Butlers, Choate, and Beaman Page 340 32. Stanford White’s Artists Page 346 33. The Metropolitan Club Page 355 34. The Accommodations of Success Page 363 35. The World Begins to Spin Page 371 36. The Chicago Fair Page 376 37. Old Colleges and New Buildings Page 385 38. McKim’s New York Clubhouses Page 401 39. The American School in Rome Page 406 40. The Swan Song of the Wooden House Page 410 41. On Top of the World Page 415 42. McKim Meets His Daughter Page 441 43. The Pennsylvania Station Page 459 44. The King’s Medal Page 467 45. The New Century for White Page 471 46. Payne Whitney’s House Page 480 47. The Gilded Age Tarnishes Page 487 48. The Trial of the Century Page 502 49. Vogue la Glaère Page 506
Appendix
Mead’s Family and Early Life Page 517 James Miller McKim Page 519 Acknowledgments Page 521 Notes Page 523 Selected Bibliography Page 553 Index Page 555

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Copyright Date
2010

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720.92'2—dc22
Library of Congress
NA737.M4 B76 2010

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xxiii, 581
Number of pages
581
Weight
1104 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25972990M
Internet Archive
triumviratemckim0000brod
ISBN 13
9780394536620
LCCN
2010026988
OCLC/WorldCat
670779684

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