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    McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm based in New York City. The firm came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals...
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    Rutherford Mead and Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead & White. McKim was born in Chester County...
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    Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most...
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    Rutherford Mead (August 20, 1846 – June 19, 1928) was an American architect who was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded...
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    George B. Post; McKim, Mead, and White; Charles B. Atwood; Carrère and Hastings; Warren and Wetmore; Horace Trumbauer; John Russell Pope and Addison Mizner...
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    Shingle style architecture (category Wooden buildings and structures in the United States)
    houses, and the emphasis on horizontal continuity, both in exterior details and in the flow of spaces within the houses. McKim, Mead and White and Peabody...
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    Symphony Hall, Boston (category Buildings and structures in Boston)
    BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson commissioned architectural firm McKim, Mead and White to create a new, permanent home for the orchestra. Symphony Hall...
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    has seven stories and includes a "dungeon" basement. The castle was initially designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White, a famous New York...
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    Plymouth Rock (category Monuments and memorials to the Pilgrims)
    the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a new Roman Doric portico was constructed, designed by McKim, Mead and White for viewing the tide-washed rock protected...
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    École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France and worked at the firm of McKim, Mead and White before they established their firm. The partnership's...
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    the Newport Casino by McKim, Mead, and White, and the King Block by Perkins and Betton. The building is two stories tall and forms six shop-front bays...
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    Stuyvesant Fish House (78th Street, Manhattan) (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    constructed for railroad executive Stuyvesant Fish and designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White in 1898. In 2006, Michael Bloomberg bought the...
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    Co. (lighting fixtures). McKim would reunite the team a couple years later to renovate The White House. McKim, Mead and White designed the interiors for...
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    Rutherford Mead (1846–1928) was a well-known architect, the Mead of McKim, Mead, and White. He is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the...
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    Rosecliff (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    estate of George Bancroft and commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to design a summer home suitable for entertaining on a grand scale...
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    Bowdoin College Museum of Art (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White. The Museum’s landmark Walker Art Building was commissioned for the College by Harriet and Sophia Walker in honor...
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    clubhouse was designed by William Symmes Richardson, a partner at McKim, Mead, and White. The facility was built on a parcel offered for lease by a member...
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    part of the extensive renovation of the White House designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt;...
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    Wisconsin, Missouri, and Louisiana state capitols. He became the sculptor of choice for the architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White and designed sculpture...
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    Williams-Butler Mansion (category Stanford White buildings)
    between 1896 and 1899. The house was designed by architect Stanford White of the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White for George L. Williams and his wife...
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    The Towers (Narragansett, Rhode Island) (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    designed by McKim, Mead, and White. The Casino offered a variety of sports, including boating, tennis, billiards, bowling, cards, and shooting, restaurants...
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    Harvard Club of New York City (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    in red brick neo-Georgian style by architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White. Founded without a location in 1865 by a group of Harvard University...
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    original McKim, Mead and White–designed Penn Station (1910), a revered piece of New York architecture. Its replacements were what architects and civic purists...
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    Staatsburgh State Historic Site (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    State Historic Site preserves a Beaux-Arts mansion designed by McKim, Mead, and White and the home's surrounding landscape in the hamlet of Staatsburg,...
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    commanding views of the sea and the city. The Hotel Nacional was designed by the New York architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White, financed by the National...
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    Isaac Bell House (category McKim, Mead & White buildings)
    the New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White (Charles Follen McKim, William R. Mead, and Stanford White) to design his summer cottage. Known...
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  • Norcross Brothers (category Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States)
    firms of H.H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White. The company was founded in 1864 by brothers James Atkinson Norcross (1831-1903) and Orlando Whitney Norcross...
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    an American architect, of the Gilded Age architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White. Smith grew up in the small city of Towanda in Bradford County,...
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  • Station (New York City), designed by McKim, Mead and White. The Renauld Bank in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Paul Charbonnier. The Ducret Apartment...
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    McKim, Mead and White, the building was completed in 1937. The Georgian Revival-style schoolhouse is of brick, steel and concrete construction, and was...
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