Word: mckim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arts where he studied architecture in the atelier of Jules André. In Paris he became imbued with the great French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce...
...Charles McKim Norton '29, of New York, N. Y., at present a first-year student in the Harvard Law School, has just been announced as the recipient for this year of the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall '94 prize. The prize, which carries with it a stipend of $250, was established in 1926, and is awarded annually by the deans of Harvard College and the Law School to the best-fitted Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School...
...able mentor disciplined his pupil's design sense, his pen and pencil technique, later famed for its own sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect Goodhue soon returned to Manhattan to superintend the firm's office there. A rift developed between the partners. The inventive Goodhue Gothic and the Cram Gothic - orthodox archaeological - could...
Died. Edward Palmer York, 63, Manhattan architect (York & Sawyer?Bowery Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Building, Pershing Square Building), of Princeton, N. J. & Stonington, Conn.; after an operation; in Manhattan. Like many a famed architect, Mr. York served his apprenticeship with McKim...
Elected. 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 & White...