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McKim, Mead & White [was: Re: (rshsdepot) Naugatuck and Waterbury CT architect]
Pennsylvania Station, N.Y. based on the Baths of Caracalla in Rome:
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/images/pennstn-mckim.jpg
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/courses/glossary/building/pennstn.html
Also McKim, Mead & White:
Waterbury Union Station:
http://www.greaterwaterbury.com/Pics/UnionStation.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/rshs/GRS%20-%20Waterbury.htm
Pennsylvania Station, Newark:
http://www.prrths.com/Phila_Images/Phila_newark.JPG
panoramic view 1935 when opened:
http://www.prrths.com/Phila_Images/Phila_newark10.JPG
http://www.roadsidenut.com/pennstn6036.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/pennstn6032.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/pennstn6031.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/pennstn6037.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/pennstn603.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/pennstn6033.jpg
The Cable Building at Houston and Broadway. 1894, the power plant for the cable cars of the Metropolitan Street Railway Traction
Co.:
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/GV015CableBuilding.htm
The Municipal Building, New York:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/chrysler/municipal.html
Here is a great old postcard showing the Municipal Building and many other historic structures:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/nycmuni2.jpg
City Hall is at left bottom, behind it the Tweed Courthouse, the building that cost so much it did in Tweed; In the background past
City Hall can be seen the elevated station for the branch line off the 3rd Avenue El, behind it, the arched building with a roof
was Park Row station off the Brooklyn Bridge, for El cars, streetcars, and NY & Brooklyn Bridge RR cable cars; the gold domed
building is the 290 foot tall World Building, or Pulitzer Building, the tallest in the world when built in 1890 (to 1894), the
library was in the dome with Pulitzer's offices at its base, it was temporary City Hall in 1956 and was demolished the next year;
The small building to the right of The World building was the Sun Building, next to it with the tower was The Tribune Building; I
forget the next one over, the Times building was further north on Park Row.
Very clean lines: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/nyc_mun3.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/nyc_mun2.jpg
Read about McKim Mead & White history here:
http://ah.bfn.org/a/archs/mck/index.html
The 1902 redecoration of the interior of the White House:
http://www.vintagedesigns.com/id/mkm/wh/
More by McKim, Mead & White:
The arch at Washington Square Arch. Greenwich Village (wood 1889, rebuilt marble 1891:
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/images/arch_washingtnarch.lg.JPG
The Judson Baptist Memorial Church on Washington Square:
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/finearts/nyc/westvil/judson.html
Stanford University
Columbia University:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/tour/
http://www.morningside-heights.net/mckim.htm
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhistory/images/bergdoll/fig35.htm
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhistory/images/bergdoll/fig121.htm
more:
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhistory/archives/bergdoll.htm
Low Library is based on the Parthenon:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/bloomingdale_ny/maison2.jpg
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ceremonies/low_library/images/lowplan.jpg
http://jschumacher.typepad.com/joe/hugo3.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/bloomingdale_ny/lowlibrary.jpg
http://www.gs.columbia.edu/kevinmap/mapimages/plaza4.JPG
http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about_seas/images/low.jpg
Louis Clarke French sculpture in front:
http://www.elsa.hokkai-s-u.ac.jp/~honjo/low%20library1.jpg
The Sundial once was one:
http://www.mapsites.net/gotham/webpages/aaronsbeauxartssite/Images/SignificancePictures/Columbia.jpg
The 1892 (2nd) Madison Square Garden where Stanford White was assassinated by a jealous husband on the roof garden in 1908 (maybe
1908).The 30 foot high naked sculpture of Diana on top of the tower was the talk and scandal of the town when it opened at Madison
Square:
http://www.teslasociety.com/madison.jpg
The first skyscraper in Omaha:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/mckim/mckim2.html
New York State Pavilion, World Columbian Exhibition, Chicago 1893:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/1893/1893_ny.jpg
The Great Arches of the Court of the Universe, Pan-American Exposition, San Francisco, 1915:
http://www.books-about-california.com/Pages/Art_of_the_Exposition/Illustrations/Art_of_the_Expo_illus_03.html
Arch of the Tower of Jewels:
http://www.books-about-california.com/Pages/Art_of_the_Exposition/Illustrations/Art_of_the_Expo_illus_02.html
The Rhode Island State House:
http://www.state.ri.us/tours/StateHouse.htm
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/rodriguez/AM%20REN%20figure%2035.jpg
(old) Bellevue Hospital, New York:
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2003/jul/bellevue/bellevue_140.jpg
The Weeks Foot Bridge, Cambridge, Mass (1924, the firm went on...).:
http://hodge.iiiii.nu/industry---photos/big/br_weeks1.jpg
http://hodge.iiiii.nu/industry---photos/big/br_weeks2.jpg
http://hodge.iiiii.nu/industry---photos/big/br_weeks3.jpg
Boston Public Library:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR2/amren/AM%20REN%20figure%2015.jpg
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR2/amren/AM%20REN%20figure%2017.jpg
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR2/amren/AM%20REN%20figure%2016.jpg
Newport Casino:
http://www.jonathanwallen.com/portfolio/files/Casino-Theatre-1.html
McKim, Mead & White designed the National History Museum at the Smithsonian in 1956:
http://www.150.si.edu/sibuild/nmah4s.jpg
All three were gone by this time probably.
Kirby Memorial Library, Amherst:
http://www.amherstiana.org/campus/kirby.html
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <CoolGuy127_@_aol.com>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Naugatuck and Waterbury CT architect
:
: In a message dated 12/23/2004 9:56:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
: Deraildh2_@_aol.com writes:
:
: that indeed MM&W did design Waterbury
:
: Modeski, Martin & Wood? Progressive jazz architects?
:
:
: ==================
: No, it's McKim, Mead and White, the famed architectural firm who
: designed Penn Station in New York (and other notable PRR stations).
:
: Daniel Chazin
: Teaneck, NJ
:
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: The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
: railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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