Word: mckim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harrison took a course in construction engineering at Worcester Tech. But there must be better places than Worcester, he decided, to find out about architecture. When he was 20, he went to New York and applied for a job with the most famous firm of architects in the U.S., McKim, Mead & White. They had put up half the nouveau riche palaces in Newport, R.I., and had just built the Morgan Library in Manhattan, while some Bellevue Hospital buildings, the Racquet and Tennis Club and several Columbia University buildings were among the projects on their drawing boards. Harrison wanted...
...beside them at mealtime. Whenever a word was in question, they would look it up. "I got an education by absorption there," he says. On his days off, he walked around New York studying such wonders as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street and the Woolworth Building. While still working for McKim, Mead & White, he got himself enrolled in the atelier of a top architect, Harvey Wiley Corbett, where in the evenings he drew, drew and redrew, while Corbett passed from desk to desk, criticizing and encouraging...
Home again after a year of Paris, Harrison found the tides beginning to turn. The Renaissance revival was losing momentum; the skyscraper boom of the '205 was under way. Harrison left McKim, Mead & White and went to work for Bertram Goodhue, who had just woh a competition for the Nebraska state capitol. Harrison worked on some of the dome designs for the capitol, and became one of Goodhue's top designers...
...like the chandeliers in the East Room. All three of the original chandeliers are down in the Capitol . . . I tried to get these chandeliers back and put them where they were before McKim, Mead & White and Teddy Roosevelt gave them away. I had the three monstrosities that replaced the beautiful chandeliers remodeled, and they do not look quite as terrible as they did before...
These annual prizes are open to both graduates and undergraduates in addition. Peter W. Kilborn '55 won the $59 Jeremy Belknap Prize for the best French composition written by a freshman. The Lioyd McKim Garrison Prize--$128 and a silver medal--went to Gerald P. Fitzgerald '52 for his poem untitled. "In Praise of Wisdom. A Poem in Three Parts: For a Graduation...