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	Mead Art Museum: Information
		Established by funds bequeathed by William Rutherford Mead (Class of 1867), the museum occupies the original building opened in 1949 and renovated in 1999-2001.
		The Mead’s superb collection of American art is considered one of the finest and most varied in an academic institution, ranging from portraits by Copley, to Hudson River School landscapes, to modern works by Robert Henri, George Bellows, and Frank Stella.
		The Mead Art Museum exhibits highlights from the permanent collection in six galleries, and presents temporary shows on contemporary art, photography, and interdisciplinary subjects highlighted by loans from public and private collections.
	www.amherst.edu /~mead/information/index.html (308 words)

	Baby Name Mead - Origin and Meaning of Mead
		Also possibly (Old English) "honey wine." General George Meade was in charge of the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and played a crucial part in the Union victory at Gettysburg.
		Mead is a rare male first name as it was not ranked for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
		Mead is a very popular surname, ranking 1468 out of 88799 for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Mead (168 words)

	American Architects' Biographies: M
		He had studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri and was a member of the Architectural League of New York and the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects.
		Mead had continued to practice under the old firm name with men who had previously been admitted to partnership.
		Mead was a member, awarded him its gold medal, an honor then conferred upon an architect for the first time.
	www.sah.org /oldsite06012004/aame/biom.html (5731 words)

	William Rutherford Mead (AC 1867) and Olga Kilyeni Mead Papers, 1840-2001 (bulk 1846-1950) Finding Aid
		William Rutherford Mead was born in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1846.
		Mead was the President of the American Academy in Rome until his death in 1928.
		Mead died in 1936 in New York City, her entire estate was bequeathed to Amherst College.
	asteria.fivecolleges.edu /findaids/amherst/ma42.html (1401 words)

	Thursday Night Hikes: Washburn-Fair Oaks Hike Architecture Notes, Part 3
		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.
		Mead was the realist of the trio, serving as in-house engineer.
		This house was built for Preston King, son of Col. William S. King, a flamboyant newspaper publisher, Congressman, and promoter of state agricultural fairs.
	www.angelfire.com /mn3/tcarchpark/fairoak1.html (4220 words)

	William Rutherford Mead — Infoplease.com
		The concordance of George Herbert Mead's "social self" and John R. Commons's 'Will."(The Social Psychological Underpinnings of Commons's......
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		Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and the emergence of the president as party leader.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0832400.html (162 words)

	Providence Architecture
		William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) was educated at Amherst College, after which he worked shortly as an engineer in New York.
		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)

	McKim, Mead & White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Rutherford Mead, the oldest of the three, was a graduate of Norwich University and Amherst College.
		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, 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 (879 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society
		Svetlana Wright, the architect’s daughter by third wife Olga Lazovich, married architect and Wright protégé William Wesley Peters, whose second wife was Svetlana Alleluyena, memoirist, daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (and Nadeyhra Alleluyena).
		Cram, William Tucker Carrington, a nephew of her great-grandfather Tucker Carrington, married Elizabeth Lewis Morton, a second cousin of Mary Carrington Watkins, Tucker Carrington’s wife.
		and Elizabeth Gerrish, Samuel Gookin and Mary Larkin(?); Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin, William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell, Daniel Gookin [Jr.], colonial soldier and magistrate, and Mary Dolling; Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens, Percival Lowell (RD) and Rebecca ____; Peter Coffin (TP) and Joan Kember (TP).
	www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/gbr84.asp (3391 words)

	Stanford White on Long Island
		As a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, he contributed to nearly 1,000 commissions, including designs for Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, New York's Pennsylvania Station, and the Boston Public Library.
		The painter William Merritt Chase offered the firm a significant challenge: the incorporation of a working art studio and a living space in which to raise his family, all under one roof.
		Nonetheless the legacy of McKim, Mead & White is very much present in the libraries, museums, and government buildings they designed for our largest cities and in the many private houses that are still being enjoyed by their owners and visitors as they were originally intended.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/stan.htm (1857 words)

	Stanford White — FactMonster.com
		After studying in Europe, he entered (1879) into partnership with C. McKim and W. Mead, a firm that was to affect the course of American architecture over a long period.
		White had a passionate love of beauty; his special talents were for the decorative elements of a building and for its interior design and furnishing.
		William Rutherford Mead - Mead, William Rutherford, 1846–1928, American architect, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0852090.html (300 words)

	Brattleboro, Vermont
		In 1753, the site of the fort, which had been determined to be in New Hampshire, was granted to Colonel William Brattle, who named it after himself.
		William Fisk, a Methodist minister and educator, was born in Brattleboro in 1792.
		The architect William Rutherford Mead was born in Brattleboro in 1846.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2161.html (428 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Rutherford Mead (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		In 1872 he began to practice architecture with C. McKim, and their partnership was joined by Stanford White in 1879 to make the famous firm of McKim, Mead, and White.
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	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)

	TIME.com: -- Dec. 24, 1928 -- Page 1
		William Temple, 47, Bishop of Manchester, descendant of Lady Godiva of Coventry and remotely related by marriage with the family of King George; to be Archbishop of York, succeeding Most Rev. Dr.
		Charles Adams Platt, famed Manhattan architect; to be President of the American Academy at Rome, succeeding the late William Rutherford Mead, last survivor of the original McKim, Mead and White.
		Sir William Llewelyn, English artist; to be President of the Royal Academy, narrowly defeating famed Portraitist Sir William Orpen.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,929122,00.html (685 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		The architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White led the American Renaissance movement, which espoused a return to classical architecture.
		William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) studied at Amherst College, then joined the office of Russell Sturgis in New York City.
		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)

	Mead, Margaret - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		A prolific writer and avid speaker who enjoyed engaging the general public, Mead was instrumental in popularizing the anthropological concept of culture with readers in the United States.
		See studies by Mead's daughter, M. Bateson (1985), and by J. Howard (1985).
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	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Mead-Mar (314 words)

	William Rutherford Mead - Encyclopedia.com
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		In 1872 he began to practice architecture with C. McKim, and their partnership was joined by Stanford White in 1879 to make the famous firm of McKim, Mead, and White.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Mead-Wil.html (274 words)

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		McKim, Mead, and White was an American architectural firm that was established in September 1879 by Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White.
		Between 1879 and 1912, McKim, Mead, and White became the largest architecture firm in America and the model for modern architectural practice.
		McKim, Mead, and White executed designs for a variety of projects including private urban and country houses, public buildings, churches, libraries, and schools.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=1022 (475 words)

	About the Museum
		The house was designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and Bigelow.
		Herrick was a classmate of William Rutherford Mead at Amherst College, Mass, class of 1867.
		Mead later became a part of the firm of McKim, Mead and White.
	www.peekskillmuseum.com /about.htm (648 words)

	Historical Society Hosts Lecture
		Art historian Donald Dwyer will present a lecture and discussion on McKim, Mead and White, the largest and most influential architecture office in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		The brilliance of Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White changed the course of American architecture and championed the movement to introduce classical order to America's cities.
		The McKim, Mead and White lecture is scheduled for Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m.
	www.gcnews.com /news/2006/0303/Community/081.html (350 words)

	Stanford White's house for Payne Whitney in New York City - architect Magazine Antiques - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		McKim, Mead and White was unquestionably the preeminent American architectural firm in the late nineteenth century.
		Together, the three partners, Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), and Stanford White, created domestic, civic, and religious buildings in a wide range of historical styles, from Queen Anne to Georgian to Renaissance-inspired classicism.
		(1) By the 1880s, McKim, Mead and White had become the architectural firm of choice for the elite of New York society and White was able to secure clients with large amounts of money to spend on new residences and extensive remodeling.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_162/ai_92545136 (753 words)

	Visitors --Virtual Tour
		John Howard Whittemore, made wealthy in the iron industry, commissioned the New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to design Salem School.
		William Rutherford Mead, the senior partner in the firm, broke with traditional institutional design in some important ways.
		First, he departed from the tall, castle-like Romantic design so popular in the Victorian era and opted for a Renaissance Italianate building that fit better with its hilly natural surronundings.
	www.naugy.net /saes/html/visitors_--virtual_tour.html (273 words)

	Theodate Pope Riddle
		In her letter of September 17th, Theodate stated that the plan for Hill-Stead will be hers, and she included a roll of plans, which has not come to light.
		Because of its reduced role, McKim, Mead and White cut its usual commission from five percent to three and one half percent of the construction cost.
		In the winter of 1906-07, while Theodate was working on the plans for Westover, the Popes asked McKim, Mead and White to expand the library into Alfred Pope's office.
	www.valinet.com /~smithash/theodate/CatalogueBuildings.html (4895 words)

	News, Events&Media
		Organized by Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth professor and chair of architectural history at the University of Virginia, the three-day conference will study the evolution of this celebrated architectural team, from their earlier shingled buildings in Newport, to their later grand classical buildings.
		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.
		A two-year architectural competition selected the entry by McKim, Mead, and White from a field of local and national architects.
	www.salve.edu /news/press_release/viewrelease.cfm?release_ID=225 (934 words)

	SOF History
		The Association of Alumni of the American Academy in Rome (the A.A.A.A.R., colloquially “the A’s in R”), as it was then called, was formally instituted in a letter of May 26, 1910 from William Rutherford Mead to Lionel Moses.
		Its main objectives were much the same as those of the Society of Fellows today: to advance the interests and well being of the Academy and to maintain alumni connections.
		The current goals of the organization are to publish a twice-yearly newsletter, to expand the web-site, to record and archive oral histories of its members and Academy staff, and to publish an updated version of the Centennial Directory.
	www.sof-aarome.org /sof_sof_history.html (1014 words)

	Scots and Scots Descendants - McD-Mu
		The founder of Savannah, James E. Oglethorpe, had among his officers John McIntosh whose son William was to become a captain in the colonial army and marry a Creek Indian princess, Senoia Henneha.
		Their son William was born in what is now Alabama.
		Employed in law office of Frank P. Leffingwell for four years, then formed firm of Williams and McLean, of which is still a mem.; firm engaged in general practice of law, but has given especial attention to corporation law, and has organized many corporations; dir.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-McD-Mu.htm (13129 words)

	McKim, Mead & White Architecture Pictures by Travel Photo Base
		Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) & Stanford White (1853-1906) began their firm in 1874 with White joining in 1879 which at the time was the largest architectural practice in the world with almost 1,000 building commissions.
		The started their enterprise by designing houses and went on to create some of the most important public buildings in America.
		Architect: Charles Follin McKim of McKim, Mead & White.
	www.travelphotobase.com /s/USMMW.HTM (224 words)

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