Mosette Broderick - Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in Americas Gilded Age

A LSO BY M OSETTE B RODERICK

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Indian Hill, the house of Ben: Perley Poore; Colonial America meets Waverley, as drawn by Stanford White.

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Broderick, Mosette Glaser.
Triumvirate : McKim, Mead & White : art, architecture, scandal, and class in Americas Gilded Age / by Mosette Broderick. 1st ed.
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eISBN: 978-0-307-59427-3
1. McKim, Mead & White. 2. McKim, Charles Follen, 18471909. 3. Mead, William Rutherford, 18461928. 4. White, Stanford, 18531906. 5. ArchitectsUnited StatesBiography. 6. United StatesCivilization18561918. 7. United StatesCivilization19181945. I. Title. II. Title: McKim, Mead & White : art, architecture, scandal, and class in Americas Gilded Age.
NA 737. M 4 B 76 2010
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T O K AYLA B AKER S TOTZKY one in a million and away too soon

Indian Hill as drawn by Stanford White (White family photograph, Claire Nicolas White and Robert White)

Henry Villard (Henry Clews, Fifty Years in Wall Street, New York, 1908)

The Harvard baseball team, 1867 (Harvard University Archives)

R. N. Shaws Leyswood in Sussex, England, designed 1866 and executed 186869 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Vernacular Norman house at Thiers (postcard ca. 1910; collection of the author)

A Norman street (Claire Nicolas White and Robert White Collection)

McKim photograph of a twin-towered house from his study tour of Normandy, ca. 1869 (Claire Nicolas White and Robert White Collection)

The Andrews house, Newport, Rhode Island, 1872 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Richardsons office (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Francis Blake house, 1875 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

A house at Peekskill, New York (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

An early commission for McKim and Mead at Amherst, Massachusetts, ca. 1878 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

McKim project for a schoolhouse published in The New York Sketch Book of 1873 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The schoolhouse as built for the Reverend Child at the Point, Newport, Rhode Island, 187374 (Broderick photo)

The Bigelow stable designed by their new son-in-law, McKim, ca. 1875 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The Thomas Robinson house in Newport (Broderick photo)

The interior of the Robinson house, perhaps rented to Reverend Child in the early 1870s (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Moses Taylor (Henry Clews, Fifty Years in Wall Street, New York, 1908)

Moses Taylor house at Elberon, New Jersey, 187677 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

L. B. Brown house in Elberon, New Jersey, at right (New-York Historical Society)

Charles G. Francklyn house, 1876, absorbed into the Elberon Hotel (New-York Historical Society)

The Wormley house at Newport, 187677 (Broderick photo)

The office at 57 Broadway with pictures of the work of the firm, ca. 1888 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The Frederick Roosevelt house in Skaneateles, New York, 187981 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Strattons house for J. K. Gracie at Oyster Bay Cove, New York, 1884, extant but altered (Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University Libraries)

S. G. Ward house in Lenox, Massachusetts, McKim and Meads first house in the resort community, 187778 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Richard Grant White painted by Daniel Huntington at the time of his marriage (Claire Nicolas White and Robert White Collection)

Alexina M. White painted by Huntington (Claire Nicolas White and Robert White Collection)

Stanford White watercolor of a French manor (Ex Family Collection, Davis & Langdale Gallery exhibition, May 15June 11, 1999)

The young Stanford White on the roof of a building near the New York seaport (Aline and Eero Saarinen Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

H. H. Richardson, Trinity Church, Boston, 187277 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

William Watts Sherman house, Newport, by H. H. Richardson, 187476 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Sketch of the living hall at the Watts Sherman house, said to be drawn by Stanford White (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Stanford White drawing for Richardsons Cheney house in South Manchester, Connecticut, 1876 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Stanford Whites sketch of McKim doubled over in seasickness (Claire Nicolas White and Robert White Collection)

Augustus Saint-Gaudenss humorous relief of McKim, White, and himself (Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site)

Admiral David Farragut at Madison Square (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The interior of the Veterans Room of the Seventh Regiment Armory designed by Associated Artists, 1880 (New-York Historical Society)

Charles E. Butler (Kings Notable New Yorkers, New York, 1899)

Prescott Hall Butler, McKims friend and Whites future brother-in-law, with his sons, ca. 1880 (Madge Cooper Huntington Collection)

Probably portraits of A. T. Stewart and his wife, Cornelia Stewart (Madge Cooper Huntington Collection)

The Stewart Marble House at Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, John Kellum, architect (New-York Historical Society)

The Benedick/Tuckerman building at 7980 Washington Square East (New York University Archives)

Cass Gilberts watercolor of the Walter Tuckerman house in Oyster Bay Cove, New York (Cass Gilbert Collection, New-York Historical Society)

The Prescott Hall Butler house, Bytharbor, in St. James, Long Island (Schabert Family Collection)

The White brothers, Richard and Stanford, on horseback in the American Southwest (Claire Nicolas White and Robert White Collection)

Joseph M. Wells in an oil sketch by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, ca. 1884 (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The office of McKim, Mead & White at 57 Broadway (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The ill-fated competition entry for the Union League Club by McKim, Mead & Bigelow, 1879 (American Architect and Building News, June 7, 1879)

Joseph M. Wells drawing of the Farnese Palace, ca. 1878 (Courtesy of the Century Association)

Joseph M. Wells drawing of the Louvre (Courtesy of the Century Association)

Elberon cottage by McKim, ca. 1876 (New-York Historical Society)

McKims design for a cottage in Elberon, New Jersey (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

The H.A.C. Taylor and Talbot houses on the bluff at Elberon, 1878 (New-York Historical Society)

The Alden Derby house, Lloyds Neck, New York, 187980 (New-York Historical Society)

The Carey house, Gusty Gables, in Lenox, Massachusetts (H. R. Hitchcock Collection)

Victor Newcomb. His was one of the greatest houses of the summer seaside style. (Henry Clews,