The Houses of McKim, Mead & White
Samuel G. White
Photographs by Jonathan Wallen
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This is the first book to focus on the residential work of McKim, Mead & White, one of America’s best known, most prolific and influential architecture firms.
Based in New York and with nearly one thousand commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, the work of McKim, Mead & White included the most prestigious projects of a gilded age: the redesign of the White House and the Mall in Washington DC, the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities, the Boston Public Library. But they also lent their sophisticated style to domestic architecture, building summer cottages in Newport and throughout Long Island and the Hudson Valley, and town houses in Boston, Baltimore and New York. These projects were built for the most powerful figures of the era, including the Vanderbilts, Whitneys and Pulitzers.
Twenty-eight houses are presented, several shown for the first time and each elegantly recorded in lavish new colour photographs and analysed by Samuel G. White, who, as great-grandson of Stanford White, has been given unprecedented access to the houses. |
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