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McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm based in New York City. The firm came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York.
Explore this gracious Stair Hall designed by the newly formed New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White for the Buffalo home of Erzelia Stetson Metcalfe.
Architects of the shingle style emulated colonial houses' plain, shingled surfaces as well as their massing, whether in the single exaggerated gable of McKim Mead and White's Low House or in the complex massing of Kragsyde. This impression of the passage of time is enhanced by the use of shingles.
Mar 30, 2022 · The architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White, by the turn of the twentieth century would be the largest, most prolific, and most impactful practice in the world. But just twenty years earlier, in 1880, they were a brand new partnership.
Dec 23, 2020 · McKim, Mead & White’s first project as a firm was the Newport Casino for James Gordon Bennett. This project was designed in what Yale architectural scholar Vincent Scully later coined the “Shingle Style.”
In 1879 McKim joined William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White to found McKim, Mead & White, which became the most successful and influential American architectural firm of its time. Until 1887 the firm excelled at informal summer houses built of shingles, and McKim designed one of the most significant of these, the residence at Bristol, Rhode ...
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Originally built in the early 1880s for the real estate developer Arthur Benson, who once owned most of Montauk, all seven were designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White and...
