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Charles Follen McKim
Charles Follen McKim 1847-1909, American architect, b. Chester co., Pa., studied (1867-70) at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was one of the founders of the firm of McKim, Mead, and Bigelow, which in 1879 became McKim, Mead, and White (see William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White ). A vast... Read more |
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William Rutherford Mead
William Rutherford Mead 1846-1928, American architect, b. Brattleboro, Vt. He entered the office of Russell Sturgis in New York City. In 1872 he began to practice architecture with C. F. McKim , and their partnership was joined by Stanford White in 1879 to make the famous firm of McKim, Mead,... Read more |
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Russell Sturgis
Sturgis, Russell (1836–1909). American architect. He worked for Eidlitz before a period of study in Munich (from 1859), where he absorbed the essences of various medieval styles as well as acquiring a sound grasp of constructional principles. Setting up in practice in NYC (1863), his works... Read more |
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John Merven Carrere
John Merven Carrère , 1858-1911, American architect, b. Rio de Janeiro. After graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, he worked under McKim, Mead, and White in New York City, and from 1886 until his death practiced in partnership with Thomas Hastings. The best-known works of... Read more |
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Stanford White
Stanford White 1853-1906, American architect, b. New York City; son of Richard Grant White. In 1872 he entered the office of Gambrill and Richardson in Boston, at the time when H. H. Richardson was at the peak of his fame. There White worked upon the design for Trinity Church, Boston. After... Read more |
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village , residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. North of the main settlement of New York City in colonial times, in the 1830s it became an exclusive residential section, described... Read more |
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Thomas Hastings (architect)
Thomas Hastings 1860-1929, American architect, b. New York City, grad. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He worked in the office of McKim, Mead, and White, New York City, and in 1886 commenced practice in partnership with John M. Carrère. The New York Public Library is their best-known... Read more |
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Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon 1866-1924, American architect, b. Watseka, Ill. He began his professional career with the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, but after 1903 he practiced independently. Among the important structures designed by him are the Lincoln Memorial at Washington, D.C. (completed 1917), and the... Read more |
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Daniel Hudson Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham , 1846-1912, American architect and city planner b. Henderson, N.Y. He was trained in architects' offices in Chicago. In that city he established (1873) a partnership with John W. Root and soon gained many of the most important architectural commissions of the day. Their... Read more |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, founded in 1870. The Metropolitan Museum is the foremost repository of art in the United States and one of the world's great museums. It opened in 1880 on its present site on Central Park facing Fifth Ave. The original Gothic Revival-style building was... Read more |
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Saint-Gaudens's style: larger than life: "... while men and nations pass away...
...Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens spent...Monument (1881, New York City), the Standing...Monument (1903, New York City)--are striking...and settled in New York City. As a teenager...designed by architect ... |
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A flickering 'City of Light'
...include Louis Sullivan, Stanford White, Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel...Wasserman sisters of New York, an unlikely trio joining...Vatican Connection, by James Brant (Onyx, $6...Blon's Bounce, by James ... |
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GAELS WORKED A MIRACLE WHEN GAELS STORMED U.S. Saint Mary's 1930 football...
...football team at Saint Mary's College...invaded New York City's Polo...Hoover, a Stanford graduate...Gaels to the White House for a...Francisco Mayor James Rolph Jr...from Cal, Stanford and USF, ... |
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MORA, SHULA DEPART SAINTS COACH RESIGNS; BENGALS ELEVATE COSLET.(Sports)
...to lead the New Orleans Saints to a winning...and Mike White of the Raiders...following the Saints' 19-7 loss...facet of the Saints. Mora was...joined Don James' staff at...coached the New ... |
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The MCA salutes forgotten genius of American art, John La Farge
...headline in the New York Tribune praised...Richardson and Stanford White, sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens and painter...William and Henry James and historian...several years before James Abott McNeil ... |
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Jumping Into '88 With a Flurry
...coming of the new year has brought...director, joining James Canfield, who...correspondence of the New York-based National...in 1898 by New York Times critic Charles...sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, ... |
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Fall design: living in history.(houses)
...alien lands in New York. One of his supernatural...New Yorkers from James Dean in his humble...the head of New York's social scene...height of his New York Philharmonic career...their ... |
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A Detroiter's gift to the nation.(Charles Lang Freer)
...Newberry and James McMillan...eager to open a new chapter in...Impressionist James McNeill Whistler...of architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens...docked in New York ... |
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National scoreboard
...Northeastern 88, New Hampshire 65...Little Rock 75, New Mexico St...Oregon St. 84, Stanford 83 Portland...St. 82, OT Saint Mary's, Calif...407 41/2 New York 22 33 .400...s Games New York ... |
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Beckett in New York: `Think serious bliss'
...heard about New York in the summertime...in pristine white T-shirts...re in New York, and can see...inspired by James Joyce's never...opera, Four Saints in Three Acts...symposia. New ... |
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