William M. Kendall

William Mitchell Kendall (13 February 1856 – 8 August 1941) was an American architect who spent his architectural career with the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, from 1882 until his death in 1941. The leading American architectural practice at the turn of the century, McKim, Mead & White was renowned for its classical and Renaissance Revival work; dozens of prominent architects began their careers at McKim, Mead & White. Kendall was closely associated with partner Charles Follen McKim and added a refined delicacy to McKim’s somewhat severe Roman classicism.

Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Kendall received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1876, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1876 to 1878, and completed a year of travel and study in France and Italy. Kendall became a partner with McKim, Mead & White in 1906. He worked with McKim on many significant buildings, including the Morgan Library, the Low Memorial Library, and other buildings at Columbia University, the Washington Square Arch, Bellevue Hospital, and the Main Post Office (James Farley Post Office), all in New York City; Arlington Memorial Bridge, the Army War College, and the restoration of St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Washington, D.C.; the American Academy in Rome; and the Harvard University School of Business, many of the Harvard gates, and the Plymouth Rock Memorial (Pilgrim Memorial State Park), in Massachusetts. Kendall proposed inscribing the quotation from Herodotus on the frieze of the New York Post Office: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

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