McKim, Mead, and White

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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 the prominent National Museum of American History in Washington DC, one of the firm's last works, opening in 1964^[1]. McKim Mead & White was also involved with an urban renewal project at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the 1950s and designed three buildings as part of the project: DeKalb Hall, ISC Building and North Hall ^{[2] [3]}.

In 1961, McKim, Mead & White was succeeded by the firm Steinman, Cain, and White. By 1971 it had become Walker O. Cain and Associates.^[4]

Contents 1 Selected Works 1.1 New York City 1.2 New England and New York State 1.3 Washington, DC 1.4 Other United States 1.5 Other Countries 2 Noted architects who once worked at the firm 3 Gallery 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Selected Works

[edit] New York City

• Villard Houses, 451 Madison Avenue, New York City, 1884
• Harvard Club of New York, New York City, 1884
• 169 West 83rd Street, Manhattan NY, for David H. King, Romanesque revival, 1885
• Madison Square Garden II at Madison Square, New York City (the second of four buildings known by this name), 1890, razed 1925
• Century Club, New York City, 1891
• The Cable Building, 611 Broadway, New York City, 1892
• West End Collegiate Church, West End Avenue, Manhattan, 1892
• Washington Arch, Washington Square Park, New York City, 1892
• Metropolitan Club, 1 East 60th St, NYC, New York, 1893
• various features of Prospect Park, including Parade Place on Lookout Hill, the Peristyle, the Park Circle granite fixtures, Lullwater Bridge, and the 1895 Maryland Monument on Lookout Hill, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1895-1900
• Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus: general design and individual buildings including Low Memorial Library, Philosophy Hall, John Jay Hall, Hamilton Hall, all circa 1895
• New York Herald Building, NYC, 1895, razed 1921
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1895
• University Club of New York, New York City, 1899
• Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College (formerly New York University), 1901
• The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City, 1903, expanded 1928
• IRT Powerhouse, NYC, 1904
• Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, Brooklyn, New York, 1908
• Knickerbocker Trust Building, 60 Broadway, NYC, 1909, razed
• The Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, New York City, 1909-1915
• Pennsylvania Station, New York City, 1910, above-ground portion razed 1963
• 998 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1912
• Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City, 1912
• James Farley Post Office (often regarded as the architectural twin of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station), 1913
• Racquet and Tennis Club, New York City, 1916-1918
• Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, New York, 1919
• The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, NYC, 1921
• 110 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York, former Elks Lodge, and former headquarters of the New York City Department of Education, 1926
• Savoy-Plaza Hotel, New York City, 1927, razed 1964
• Liggett Hall, Governors Island, New York, 1929

[edit] New England and New York State

• Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island, 1880
• John Howard Whittemore House Naugatuck, Connecticut (1880s)^[5]
• Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1881-1883
• Cyrus McCormick summer estate, shingle-style Richfield Springs, New York, 1882; razed 1957
• Narragansett Pier Casino, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 1883
• Salem School, Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1884^[5]
• John F. Andrews Mansion, 32 Hereford Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886
• Algonquin Club, Boston, 1888
• Johnston Gate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1889
• Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1890
• Walker Art Building, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1894
• Whittemore Memorial Library Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1894^[5]
• Boston Public Library, Boston, 1895
• Reid Hall, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, 1895
• Rhode Island State House, Providence, Rhode Island, 1895-1904
• Garden City Hotel, Garden City, New York, 1895 (burned 1899)
• Rosecliff, Newport, Rhode Island, 1898-1902
• Harbor Hill on Long Island, New York, built 1899-1902, razed 1947
• Hill-Stead Museum, estate of Alfred Atmore Pope, designed in collaboration with Theodate Pope Riddle, Farmington, Connecticut, 1901
• Faunce House (then Rockefeller Hall), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1904
• Naugatuck High School, Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1904 (Hillside Middle School since 1959)
• Plymouth Rock portico, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1920
• Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1925
• Memorial Chapel, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1925
• Levermore Hall, Blodgett Hall, and Woodruff Hall, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, 1929
• Schenectady City Hall, Schenectady, New York, 1931-1933
• Wolf's Head Society, "Old Hall", New Haven, CT, Yale University, 1884

[edit] Washington, DC

• The West Wing and East Wing of the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., 1903renovation
• Roosevelt Hall, National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC., 1903-1907
• National Museum of American History, Washington, DC., 1964

[edit] Other United States

• First Methodist Episcopal Church, Lovely Lane United Methodist Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1884
• Omaha National Bank Building, Omaha, Nebraska (originally the New York Life Building), 1889 ^[6]
• New York Life Insurance Building, Kansas City, Missouri, 1890
• Open Gates, George Sealy Mansion, Galveston, Texas, 1891
• The Agricultural Building at the World Columbian Exposition,Chicago, Illinois), 1893
• Old Cabell Hall, Cocke Hall, and Rouss Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, circa 1898
• Savoyard Centre, Detroit, Michigan, 1900
• English Building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, 1905
• University Cottage Club Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1906
• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1915
• National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Library and Museum, Niles, Ohio, 1915
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, on National Register of Historic Places, 1919
• Milwaukee County Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1931
• Pennsylvania Station, Newark, New Jersey, 1935
• Dietrich Hall, now Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 1952

[edit] Other Countries

• additions to the Bank of Montreal Head Office, Montreal, 1901-1905
• American Academy in Rome (Main Building), Rome, Italy, 1914
• Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba, 1930

[edit] Noted architects who once worked at the firm

• William M. Whidden (1857-1929) worked at the firm from at least 1882 until 1888. Projects included the Tacoma and Portland Hotels. Whidden relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1888 to finish the hotel and established his own firm with Ion Lewis (1858-1933)
• Carrère and Hastings, who worked together for McKim, Mead and White from 1883 through 1885
• Henry Bacon, who worked at the firm from about 1886 through 1897. Bacon left with fellow employee James Brite to form their own office
• Edward Lippincott Tilton - assisted with the design of the Boston public library in 1890 before leaving with Boring to form a separate firm
• William Alciphron Boring - worked at the firm in 1890 before forming a separate partnership with Tilton
• York and Sawyer, who worked together for the firm before starting business in 1898
• Harrie Thomas Lindeberg - started at the firm in 1895 as an assistant to Stanford White and remained with the firm until White's death in 1906
• Lewis Colt Albro - who later partnered briefly with Lindeberg for several commissions
• Charles Lewis Bowman - a draftsman at the firm, noted for his large volume of private residences concentrated in Eastchester, New York, worked for the firm until 1922
• Walker O. Cain - worked at the firm then took it over and renamed it (starting 1961) several times

[edit] Gallery

Salem School (1884), from a 1905 postcard	New York Life Insurance Building, Kansas City, Missouri, built 1888-1890	Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, built 1895. Photo taken circa 1900-1910.	Rhode Island State House, Providence, completed in 1904.
IRT Powerhouse (1904)	Naugatuck High School (1904). Image: c. 1910.	Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, built 1905-1910

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• McKim, Mead and White flickr group
• Randall's Lost New York City Cable Building is included as a special resource.