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An edition of Triumvirate McKim Mead And White Art Architecture Scandal And Class In Americas Gilded Age (2010)

Triumvirate McKim, Mead And White

Art Architecture Scandal And Class In Americas Gilded Age

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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
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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

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
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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