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Charles Follen McKim

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Noun1.Charles Follen McKim - United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909)Charles Follen McKim - United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909)


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Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) was the son of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker, an abolitionist who helped launch the Nation magazine, which at its founding was the voice of radical Republicanism.
Little more than a century has passed since Charles Follen McKim submitted to the Columbia trustees the 1893 McKim, Mead & White masterplan for the university on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
For his architect he chose Charles Follen McKim, that prodigiously gifted classicist who had recently built an art museum for Bowdoin College, based on the Villa Giulia in Rome.
 
 
 
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