McKim Mead & White architectural records and drawings, 1879-1958

Summary Information

Description

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.

General Note

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

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Permission to publish must be obtained in writing from the Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0301, New York, NY 10027.

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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Various gifts.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

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.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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