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Name: Charles Follen McKim
Birth Date: August 24, 1847
Death Date: September 14, 1909
Place of Birth: Isabella Furnace, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death: St. James, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: architect

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Biography of Charles Follen McKim
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Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), American architect, was the founding partner in the firm of McKim, Mead & White, which set the standard for architectural taste in the United States between 1879 and 1909. Charles Follen McKim was born at Isabella...


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Mckim, Charles Follen
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(born Aug. 24, 1847, Chester County, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 14, 1909, St. James, Long Island, N.Y.) U.S. architect. He was educated at Harvard University and in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1879 he joined William Rutherford Mead and...
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Charles Follen McKim Information
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Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847–September 14, 1909) was one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architects of the late nineteenth century. Along with Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership...


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The Boston Herald
For design splendor, McKim's built to last.(Editorial)
12/07/2001: 847 words, approx. 3 pages
The Harleston Parker Award, given annually by the Boston Society of Architects to the most beautiful new building in the metropolitan area, goes this year to one of Boston's oldest: the Public Library's McKim building. That's right. The McKim building, first opened...
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New Criterion
McKim, Mead & White's architectural citizenship.(Architecture)
09/01/2006: 4,398 words, approx. 15 pages
Ernest Hemingway once declared that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," a claim so provocative that Lionel Trilling based an essay on it. Was it indeed possible that Twain's picaresque adventure could be so influential?...
 


 

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