biography
| name: |
McKim, Charles Follen
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pronunciation:
[muhkim]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1847–1909)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Isabella Furnace, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Harvard and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The addition of Stanford White to his partnership with William Rutherford Mead launched McKim, Mead & White in 1879, designers of more than 1000 public, commercial, and residential buildings. McKim was an elegant Classical designer; his work includes the Boston Public Library (1887–95) and the Pierpont Morgan Library (1902–7), New York City. |
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