Stanford White
| Stanford White | |
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White circa 1892
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| Born |
November 9, 1853 New York City, New York |
| Died | June 25, 1906 (aged 52) Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings |
Rosecliff, Newport, RI Madison Square Garden II, NYC Washington Square Arch, NYC New York Herald Building, NYC Savoyard Centre, Detroit Lovely Lane Methodist Church, Baltimore Rhode Island State House, Providence, RI |
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich, and numerous public, institutional, and religious buildings. His design principles embodied the "American Renaissance".
In 1906, White was murdered by millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw over White's sexual assault of actress Evelyn Nesbit. This led to a court case which was dubbed "The Trial of the Century" by contemporary reporters.
White was the son of Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White and Alexina Black Mease (1830–1921). His father was a dandy and Anglophile with no money, but a great many connections in New York's art world, including painter John LaFarge, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frederick Law Olmsted.
White had no formal architectural training; he began his career at the age of 18 as the principal assistant to Henry Hobson Richardson, the greatest American architect of the day and creator of a style recognized today as "Richardsonian Romanesque". He remained with Richardson for six years. In 1878, White embarked for a year and a half in Europe, and when he returned to New York in September 1879, he joined Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead to form McKim, Mead and White. As part of the partnership, all commissions designed by the architects were identified as being the work of the collective firm, not any individual architect.
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