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	Charles Follen McKim - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		CHARLES FOLLEN MCKIM (1847-1909), American architect, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of August 1847.
		McKim was one of the founders of the American Academy in Rome; received a gold medal at the Paris exposition of 1900; in 1903, for his services in the promotion of architecture, received the King's Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects; and in 1907 became a National Academician.
		McKim's name is especially associated with the University Club in New York, with the Columbia University buildings, with the additions to the White House (1906), and, more particularly, with the Boston Public Library, for which the library of Ste Genevieve in Paris furnished the suggestion.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles_Follen_McKim (221 words)

	Charles Follen McKim Summary
		Charles Follen McKim was born at Isabella Furnace, Pa., on Aug. 24, 1847.
		Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847—September 14, 1909) was one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architects of the late nineteenth century, as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead, and White (q.v.
		McKim received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Medaille d'Or at the 1900 Paris Exposition, a gold medal from Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and honorary doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia.
	www.bookrags.com /Charles_Follen_McKim (826 words)

	Charles Follen McKim
		Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 - September 14, 1909) was one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architects of the late nineteenth century.
		McKim studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before joining the office of Henry Hobson Richardson in 1870.
		McKim received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Medaille d'Or at the 1900 Paris Exposition, a gold medal from Britain's King Edward VII, and honorary doctorates from Penn and Columbia.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/c/ch/charles_follen_mckim.html (171 words)

	MCKIM, CHARLES FOLLEN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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).
		McKim was influential in the development of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, for which he built the Agricultural Palace.
		He designed a fine series of clubhouses in New York City, of which the Harvard Club and the University Club are two; a number of buildings for Columbia Univ., including the present-day Low Memorial Library; the Pennsylvania RR station (1904–10); the Pierpont Morgan Library; and numerous fine commercial and residential works.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/mc/McKim-Ch.html (266 words)

	Mckim, charles follen
		Charles Follen McKim -- EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica Charles Follen McKim American architect who was of primary importance in the American Neoclassical revival.
		Charles Follen McKim was among the founders of...
		McKim, Mead and White McKim, Mead, and White was formed in 1878 when Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) formed a partnership with William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) and William B. Charles Follen McKim: Definition and Much More from Answers.com McKim (), Charles Follen 1847â“1909.
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	Washingtonpost.com: Washington Century
		Nonetheless, McKim was fidgety on the morning of Jan. 15, 1902, as he hastened to apply the final touches to an exhibition of their plans at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
		McKim and his colleagues had absorbed the lessons of the city's original 1791 plan by Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and they were only too aware of the ways it had been disfigured during the 19th century.
		McKim, a partner in the redoubtable architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White, was a skilled designer both of buildings and large urban compositions.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/2000/city0104.htm (1819 words)

	James Miller McKim, Class of 1828
		James Miller McKim was born November 10, 1810 on a farm near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children.
		McKim also helped to found The Nation, a New York newspaper produced to support the interests of the newly freed men and provided Wendell Garrison the position of editor.
		McKim married Sarah Allibone Speakman on October 1, 1840 and had two natural children, Charles Follen and Lucy; the couple also adopted McKim’s niece.
	chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/m/ed_mcKimJM.htm (397 words)

	McKim, Mead & White
		Beginning in 1877 McKim and Mead were in partnership with William Bigelow, a classmate of McKim's from the Beaux-Arts and the brother of his wife Annie.
		McKim was a designer with a keen understanding of early American buildings and decorative arts, a powerful ability to simplify forms, and a list of clients and connections that would benefit the firm for the next thirty years.
		McKim, Mead and White's architecture rose to the level of excellence because the strengths and weaknesses of each partner complemented the others, because each architect understood his own role in the process, and because they worked together.
	ah.bfn.org /a/archs/mck/index.html (879 words)

	New York Architecture Images- McKim Mead and White
		Charles McKim (1847–1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928), and Stanford White (1853–1906) established their partnership in 1879 and soon became the most prestigious architectural firm in the United States, designing a wide array of residential, institutional, commercial, and public buildings in New York and other cities.
		The firm consisted of Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White.
		He was a talented and versatile draftsman who in 1880, joined Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead in founding McKim, Mead and White, which soon became the most prominent architectural firm in the country.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-McKimMeadandWhite.htm (2246 words)

	Biography for: Charles Follen McKim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Charles Follen McKim was an architect in the firm of McKim, Mead and White of New York.
		McKim encouraged Whistler to submit plans for the decoration of a panel for Bates Hall, Boston Public Library [ transcription">#03721], and on 26 April 1892 he sent the artist plans and perspective views of Bates Hall, showing the one large and two narrow framing panels that were to be decorated [ transcription">#03722].
		On 7 May 1895 Whistler wrote to the trustees, attempting to confirm his original agreement with McKim and Abbott that Whistler should choose the subject and paint the panel in his own time, and that the trustees were to decide on payment [ transcription">#00351].
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/McKi_CF.htm (262 words)

	Charles White - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		White, Charles (1918-1979), American artist best known for his portrayals of African American leaders and common people.
		McKim, Charles Follen (1847-1909), American architect, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and educated at Harvard University and at the École...
		The White Stockings were established in 1900 when owner Charles Comiskey moved his minor league team, the St. Paul Saints, to Chicago.
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	Providence Architecture
		Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) studied shortly for a year at the Harvard Lawrence Scientific School and then for three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
		The two formed a loose partnership that became legitimized with the addition of William B. Bigelow in 1877, forming the firm of McKim, Mead and Bigelow.
		In 1872 he worked in the office of H.H. Richardson, where he remained until he joined McKim and Mead in 1879, after Bigelow had left the firm.
	www.brown.edu /Courses/HA0191/mckimmeadwhite.html (172 words)

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		The third was Charles Follen McKim, of the design firm McKim, Mead, and White.
		Charles Follen McKim's plan, perpetuated as the Master Plan, and religiously adhered to for almost three-quarters of a century, astounded and impressed the Trustees in two ways.
		McKim emulated a near-forgotten Italian conception that arose from the Renaissance called the "City Beautiful" approach.
	www.columbia.edu /~tt2124/CUHist/sections/master.htm (899 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) was the founder and leader of the firm.
		McKim was the founder and first president of the American Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
		McKim, Mead, and White received several commissions in Newport, Rhode Island, including the Newport Casino (1879-1881), the Isaac Bell House (1881-1883), and the H.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/mmw.html (278 words)

	McKim, Mead, and White - Great Buildings Online
		McKim's ardent idealism and adherence to universal principles were shaped by the example of his father, a leading activist and fundraiser for the abolitionist cause...
		Charles Follen McKim was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania.
		With his partners in McKim, Mead, & White, he eventually adopted classical ideas of planning and symbolism to meet the needs of both residential and civic architecture.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/McKim_Mead_and_White.html (493 words)

	News, Events&Media
		From their earlier shingled buildings in Newport, to their later grand classical buildings such as the Boston Public Library and Pennsylvania Station, they established for the United States a new architectural lineage that connected with both the country's past and the grand traditions of the old world.
		From McKim, La Farge obtained his first major commission for an opalescent window in 1879 and received a personal commission for a memorial to McKim's wife in 1887.
		Instead, McKimÂ’s created an aesthetic that might be called Â“democratic luxuriance.Â” This paper will show how McKim shaped what could have been a reassertion of noblesse oblige into an exciting egalitarian space.
	www.salve.edu /news/press_release/viewrelease.cfm?release_ID=225 (934 words)

	Cultural and Historic Preservation
		From their earlier shingled buildings in Newport, RI, to their later grand classical buildings such as the Boston Public Library and Pennsylvania Station, they established for the United States a new architectural lineage that connected with both the country's past and the grand traditions of the old world.
		The houses designed by MMandW between the early 1880s and the mid-1890's are distinctly different from both their early work in the "shingle style" and the academic classicism that defined the firm's output during last fifteen years of the partnership.
		McKim, Mead and White were the nation's pre-eminent architects at the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.salve.edu /heritage/annualconferences/2002/index.html (1402 words)

	AllRefer.com - Charles Follen McKim (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	Item 49
		A competition for the new campus was announced and McKim, Mead and White were chosen from the competitors, who included Richard Morris Hunt, Haight himself, and Ware and Olmsted.
		The focal point of the new campus was the library, named in honor of Abiel Abbot Low by his son President Seth Low, who donated one million dollars to erect this building.
		In this draft of a letter to his partner Stanford White, Charles McKim, the lead designer, explains that he cannot go golfing in Europe with White as President Low has cut out such a lot of work for him.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/49.html (291 words)

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	Morningside Heights
		his design was by Charles Follen McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, the greatest architectural firm of turn-of-the-century America.
		The top picture shows the overall plan, about half of which actually got built, mainly the outer ring of buildings.
		This picture shows South Field framed as a focused Rennaisance urban composition, less bucolic but perhaps more aesthetically polished than what is there today.
	www.morningside-heights.net /mckim.htm (94 words)

	Amazon.com: Charles Follen McKim: A Study of His Life and Work: Books: Alfred H. Granger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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	www.amazon.com /Charles-Follen-McKim-Study-Life/dp/040402890X (433 words)

	H.H. Richardson
		Trinity Church, Boston defined his unique style which became known as "Richardsonian Romanesque" because of the parallels with Romanesque principles.
		He was very influential in his short life; followers include Charles Follen McKim, Stanford White, Louis Sullivan, and John Wellborn Root.
		It is a revival style based on French and Spanish Romanesque precedents of the 11th century.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/hhr.html (195 words)

	Rhode Island Statehouse
		IN 1890 the General Assembly created a commission to obtain plans for a new State House, and on September 16, 1895, ground was broken for the construction of the building from the designs of Charles Follen McKim of the New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White.
		The cornerstone was laid October 15, 1896, while Charles Warren Lippitt was Governor, and in December 1900, the Secretary of State and his staff were the first to occupy offices.
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	www.brightridge.com /pages/statehouse.html (244 words)

	Images of Boston Public Library, by McKim, Mead and White, 1888-95. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Images of Boston Public Library, by McKim, Mead and White, 1888-95.
		Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern.
		See also the New York Life Building (renamed the Omaha Building) in Omaha by McKim, Mead and White.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/mckim/mckim.html (169 words)

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		Today, the McKim building houses the BPL's vast research collection and the Johnson building holds the circulating collection of the general library and serves as headquarters for the Boston Public Library's 26 branch libraries.
		Other features include the Thomson Theater of Electricity; Current Science & Technology Center; Charles Hayden Planetarium; Gilliland Observatory; and Mugar Omni Theater.
		The Museum's exhibit plan, Science Is an Activity, has been awarded several National Science Foundation grants and profoundly influenced exhibit development at other major science centers.
	forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/partners.php (2837 words)

	ArchitectureWeek Calendar - Events - Design and Building
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		Fifth Annual McKim Lecture: Charles Follen McKim's American Academy in Rome
		Hosted by the One West 54th Street Foundation at the University Club, ICA&CA board member and president of the American Academy in Rome, Adele Chatfield-Taylor will give a talk about Charles Follen McKim’s involvement with the Academy.
	www.architectureweek.com /cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?id=13083 (144 words)

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