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CHARLES FOLLEN MCKIM (1847-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:FOLLEN See also:MCKIM (1847-1909)  , See also:American architect, was See also:born in See also:Chester See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 24th of See also:August 1847 . His See also:father, See also:James See also:Miller See also:McKim (1810—1874), originally a Presbyterian See also:minister, was a prominent abolitionist and one of the founders (1865) of the New See also:York Nation . The son studied at Harvard (1866—1867) and at See also:Paris in the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts (1867—187o), and in 1872 became an architect in New York See also:City, entering the See also:office of H . H . See also:Richard-son; in 1877 he formed a See also:partnership with See also:William See also:Rutherford See also:Mead (b . 1846), the See also:firm becoming in 1879 McKim, Mead & See also:White, when See also:Stanford White (1853—1906) became a partner . McKim was one of the founders of the American See also:Academy in See also:Rome; received a See also:gold See also:medal at the Paris exposition of 'goo; in 1903, for his services in the promotion of See also:architecture, received the See also:King's Medal of the Royal See also:Institute of See also:British Architects; and in 1907 became a See also:National Academician . He died at St James, See also:Long See also:Island, N.Y., on the 14th of See also:September 19o9 . McKim's name is especially associated with the University See also:Club in New York, with the See also:Columbia University buildings, with the additions to the White See also:House (1906), and, more particularly, with the See also:Boston Public Library, for which the library of Ste See also:Genevieve in Paris furnished the See also:suggestion .

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