McKim, Charles Follen 1847-1909 creator mixed material monographic eng 4,200 14 14 5.6 Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diary transcript, notes, legal and financial records, sketches, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the firm of McKim, Mead, & White, New York, N.Y. Documents McKim's designs for the Boston Public Library and Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.; Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus and the University Club, New York, N.Y.; Rhode Island State House, Providence, R.I.; restoration of the White House, Washington, D.C.; and the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,Ill, 1893. Also documents McKim's work on the U.S. Senate Commission for the Improvement of the District of Columbia concerned with the location and treatment of public buildings and grounds along the Mall and his membership on the Grant Memorial Commission. Includes material pertaining to McKim's membership in societies and clubs including the American Institute of Architects, the Century Club, and the University Club. Subjects include the development of American architecture, establishment of the American Academy in Rome, and efforts of abolitionists to provide aid for newly freed slaves in the years following the Civil War. Diary includes McKim's account of an 1863 walking tour with Francis Jackson Garrison and Wendell Phillips Garrison to the Gettysburg battlefield and other areas in eastern Pennsylvania. Family correspondents include McKim's daughter, Margaret McKim; his father, J. Miller M'Kim; and other family members. Other correspondents include Daniel Chester French, John La Farge, Francis Jackson Garrison, Wendell Phillips Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Francis Davis Millet, Charles Moore, H. Siddons Mowbray, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Open to research. Microfilm edition available, no. 19,621. Microfilm edition produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1987. In part, transcripts. Architect. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010074 French, Daniel Chester 1850-1931 Correspondence Garrison, Francis Jackson 1848-1916 Garrison, Francis Jackson 1848-1916 Correspondence Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879 Correspondence Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840-1907 Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840-1907 Correspondence La Farge, John 1835-1910 Correspondence Millet, Francis Davis 1846-1912 Correspondence M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810-1874 Correspondence McKim, Margaret Correspondence Moore, Charles 1855-1942 Correspondence Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons) 1858-1928 Correspondence Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903 Correspondence Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 1848-1907 Correspondence McKim family Correspondence United States. Congress. Senate. Commission for the Improvement of the District of Columbia. American Academy in Rome. American Institute of Architects. Boston Public Library. Century Club (New York, N.Y.) Columbia University. Grant Memorial Commission. McKim, Mead, & White. Rhode Island State House (Providence, R.I.) Symphony Hall (Boston, Mass.) University Club (New York, N.Y.) White House (Washington, D.C.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) African Americans History 19th century Architectural firms New York (State) New York Architecture Societies, etc Architecture Study and teaching Italy Rome Architecture Massachusetts Boston Architecture New York (State) New York Architecture Conservation and restoration Washington (D.C.) Architecture United States Architecture Washington (D.C.) Clubs New York (State) New York Exhibitions Illinois Chicago Freedmen Libraries Massachusetts Boston Music-halls Massachusetts Boston Parks Washington (D.C.) Public buildings Washington (D.C.) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Universities and colleges New York (State) New York Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) Gettysburg (Pa.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pennsylvania Description and travel Rhode Island Capital and capitol Architects mm 79032243 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010074 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010074.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010074 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010074.3 Open to research. DLC 790515 20260227111656.0 mm 79032243