Peachy Landmarks: Celebrating McKim Mead & White
Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do.
I'm half crazy / all for the love of you.
"Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" - Harry Dacre, 1892
The New York Landmarks Conservancy tells us:
To celebrate the extraordinary architectural legacy that surrounds us in New York, each month the Landmarks Conservancy explores various architects, functions or styles.
In March, we’ll highlight the most celebrated architectural firm of the Gilded Age:McKim Mead & White.
Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) andStanford White (1853-1906) launched their eponymous firm in 1879, on the eve of the Elegant Eighties. They applied the principles of Beaux-Arts design, the interpretation of classical Greek and Roman style as filtered through the École des Beaux-Arts, the distinguished national school of fine arts in Paris.
While McKim Mead & White did work throughout the country and around the world, they were based in New York, where they changed the face of the City.
Their commissions included the original Penn Station, New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Harvard Club, West End Collegiate Church, Morgan Library, Washington Arch, University Club, Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument, Hotel Pennsylvania, Century Club, Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus, Metropolitan Club … the list goes on and on and on.
We’ll discover more about these gifted visionaries and their dazzling creations through weekly posts to Facebook and Twitter, our Mystery Landmark competition and our Tourist In Your Own Town video series. Stay tuned!
