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    Charles (Karl) Theodor Christian Friedrich Follen (September 6, 1796 – January 13, 1840) was a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United...
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    Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford...
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    Charles Follen Adams (April 21, 1842 – March 8, 1918) was an American poet. Adams was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 21, 1842. He came from revolutionary...
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    prose and poetry to papers and magazines. In 1828, she married Prof. Charles Follen, who died on board the Lexington in 1840. During her married life, she...
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  • Look up follen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Follen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918), American...
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    German-born American classical scholar, Harvard professor and friend of Charles Follen. Beck was born in Heidelberg. His merchant father died when Beck was young...
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    of the U.S. Vice President. The desk was made in 1903 to a design by Charles Follen McKim for the newly constructed West Wing (then called the Executive...
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    ("Rick" Olmsted), was part of the Commission alongside Daniel Burnham, Charles Follen McKim and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. At the instigation of a French ambassador...
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    in 1894, was designed in red brick neo-Georgian style by architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White. Founded without a location in 1865 by...
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    Renaissance in fin de siècle New York. The firm's founding partners, Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928), and Stanford...
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    needed a larger building to accommodate its holdings, and architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead, and White was chosen to design a new building...
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    and its larger park system, along with architects Daniel Burnham and Charles Follen McKim, and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.; in 1902, the...
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    Gilded Age architectural firm. The firm's other founding partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) and Stanford White (1853–1906). Mead was born in Brattleboro...
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    returned to New York in September 1879, he joined two young architects, Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead, to form the firm of McKim, Mead and...
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  • anti-vivisectionist Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918), American poet Charles Partridge Adams (1858–1942), American landscape artist Charles James Adams (1859–1931)...
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    nine-story granite-faced Renaissance Revival structure, was designed by Charles Follen McKim, a member of the club. It contains three main floors with a reception...
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    to or admired, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Follen and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the latter of whom Alcott considered...
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    the John Hancock Tower, Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church, and Charles Follen McKim's Boston Public Library. The Fairmont Copley Plaza is recognized...
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    Low Memorial Library at Columbia University, designed by Charles Follen McKim...
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    the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, such as Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim were responsible for bringing the beaux-arts approach back from...
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    designed by the architect Charles Follen McKim. The idea for the statue dates back to as early as 1888. The architect Charles Follen McKim and sculptor Augustus...
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    rings, high bar, the pommel horse and the vault horse. Germans Charles Beck and Charles Follen and American John Neal brought the first wave of gymnastics...
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  • Ciudad Lineal, Madrid 1898 Ebenezer Howard – Garden city movement 1901 Charles Follen McKim – Washington, D.C. revised plan 1909 Daniel Burnham – Chicago...
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    Public Library, built later (1895) by Richardson's former draftsman, Charles Follen McKim. Together these and the surrounding buildings comprise one of...
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    116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, was designed by Charles Follen McKim of the firm McKim, Mead & White. The building was constructed...
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  • August 25, 2013. Follen, Charles; Mehring, Frank (2007-01-01). Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of Karl/Charles Follen (1796-1840). Peter...
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    contributed to the wing's design. Theodore Roosevelt hired architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White architectural firm to reorganize the layout...
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    Howard Taft. The room was designed by Nathan C. Wyeth who chose the Charles Follen McKim designed Theodore Roosevelt desk, which was first used by Theodore...
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    second floor. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt engaged architect Charles Follen McKim, of the firm McKim, Mead, and White, to reconfigure and redesign...
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    in the United States in the 1820s, led by Germans, such as Charles Beck and Charles Follen, and Americans, such as John Neal. Beck opened the first gymnasium...
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