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...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal was won by Feltenstein for his poem "Flood and Low Water." Caughey received the Harvard Monthly prize of $50 for the student in an advanced English composition course showing the greatest literary promise...
Words like these would have been unseemly from the mouths of the richly endowed gentlemen architects on whom U. S. Society relied during its last great period of building. Stanford White and Charles McKim were master eclectics who adapted the styles and ornament of Europe gracefully to New York and New England buildings. Ralph Adams Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival. Bertram Goodhue achieved the monumentality of West Point. From these men Wright was isolated by what in their day appeared to be his eccentricity. The isolation is now seen to have been more theirs than...
Married. Mrs. Lillian Stokes Bostwick McKim, sister of polo-playing, steeplechasing George H. (''Pete"), Dunbar and Albert Bostwick, to Ogden Phipps, court-tennist. stable owner, nephew of the late Ogden Mills; quietly and to the surprise even of Mr. Phipps's household servants; in a Manhattan apartment...
Born in Manhattan in 1874, "Jack" Pope was the first student to win a scholarship to the American Academy in Rome founded by the late Charles Follem McKim. Three years in Europe supplied him with wide architectural learning and a love for the grand style. During the rest of his life Pope's imagination soared no further than the symmetries of Greek and Roman architecture. Such was the character of his period...
...KENNETH McKIM...