McKim Mead & White architectural records and drawings3460633Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-15 18:35:37 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library McKim Mead & White architectural records and drawings Mead, William Rutherford, 1846-1928 McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 White, Stanford, 1853-1906 McKim, Mead & White 3460633 English . /repositories/3/resources/644 400 drawings approximate 6 manuscript boxes 17 print boxes 1879-1958 General Note

There are additional McKim, Mead & White drawings in the Columbia University architectural drawings collection

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 Summary

Architectural drawings and photographs of buildings designed by the firm dating approximately from its founding to the 1950s. Among those represented are buildings at the World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893; Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, 1906-1910; restoration, 1903, of the White House, Washington, D.C.; buildings at Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, New York; Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.; E.W. Morgan mansion; Municipal Building, N.Y.; Col. Elliott Shepherd House, Scarborough, N.Y.; buildings at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.; Bellevue Hospital, New York; various New York City residences; and others. Also included are competition drawings for the New York Public Library; miscellaneous drawings and sketches; photographs of the partners and of other members of the firm; lists of the firm's work; clippings of articles about the firm; lists of the firm's employees; billing records, 1953-1955; account books, 1940s-1950s; bank books, 1895-1955; award certificates; and other office miscellany.

 Preferred Citation

McKim, Mead & White architectural records and drawings. Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

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 Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Various gifts.

 Biographical / Historical

Architectural firm in New York formed by the partnership of William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), and Stanford White (1853-1906). The successor firm kept the same corporate name after the death of the original partners.

 Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans Architectural firms -- New York (State) -- New York Dwellings -- New York (State) -- New York Dwellings -- Washington (D.C.) Dwellings -- New York (State) -- Scarborough College buildings Exhibition buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago Public libraries -- Massachusetts -- Boston Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York Public buildings -- New York (State) -- New York Railroad stations -- New York (State) -- New York Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York Interior decoration -- New York (State) -- New York Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Washington (D.C.) Interior architecture -- New York (State) -- New York Architecture, Domestic -- New York (State) -- New York Architecture, Domestic -- Washington (D.C.) Architecture -- Competitions architectural drawings (visual works) Photographic prints Drawings (visual works) Scrapbooks Account books Architects C. T. Barney House (New York, N.Y.) E. W. Morgan mansion White House (Washington, D.C.) Municipal Building (New York, N.Y.) Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) Columbia University Boston Public Library Col. Elliott Shepard House (Scarborough, N.Y.) Amherst College Bellevue Hospital New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. (New York, N.Y.) R. W. Patterson House (Washington, D.C.) World's Columbian Exposition (Location of meeting: Chicago, Ill.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1893 :.) Request Collection: McKim Mead & White architectural records and drawings/repositories/3/archival_objects/1708855Request Collection