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Charles Follen McKim

Born: 1847 | Chester County, Pennsylvania

Died: 1909 | St. James, New York

Practice: McKim, Mead & White (originally McKim & Mead)

Partners: William Rutherford Mead, Stanford White

Awards: Médaille d’Or (1900), RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1903), AIA Gold Medal (1909, posthumously)

Buildings: Morgan Library McKim Building, Boston Public Library, Columbia University Low Memorial Library, Pierpoint Morgan Library, University Club of New York, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, American Academy in Rome

Columbia University Low Memorial Library, New York City, New York (1895 – 1897)

Columbia University Low Memorial Library by Charles McKim © M.M.Dwyer CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Boston Public Library McKim Building, Boston, Massachusetts (1895)

Boston Public Library by McKim, Mead & White © Kim Châteauneuf CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Congregational Church, Naugatuck, Connecticut (1901 – 1902)

Congregational Church by McKim © M.M.Dwyer CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York City, New York (1901)

Hall of Fame by McKim, Mead & White © M.M.Dwyer CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Howard Whittenmore Memorial Library, Naugatuck, Connecticut (1894)

Naugatuck Library by McKim, Mead & White © M.M.Dwyer CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Salem School, Naugatuck, Connecticut (1893)

Salem School by McKim, Mead & White © M.M.Dwyer CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons