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...
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...
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 at...
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? For...
