Architect
McKim, Mead & White designed museums, clubs, libraries, houses, and commercial buildings in Manhattan.
Compare the Metropolitan Museum of Art, former Tiffany Building, and Casa Italiana. These buildings show the firm's work across different uses and scales.
35 building histories
Library · 1907-08
203 E 115th Street, New York, NY
To come unexpectedly upon the 115th Street Branch of the New York Public Library on a residential street occupied primarily by four and five-story brown- stones, is to experience a pleasant surprise. Such is the...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-98
11 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished residence was built in 1896-98 for James Junius Goodwin, a prominent New York businessman. Designed in the neo-Georgian style by the firm of McKim, Mead & White, it is a hand-some reminder of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1910-12
998 5th Avenue, New York, NY
No. 998 Fifth Avenue is a remarkably handsome building - the finest Italian Renaissance style apartment house in New York City. The architects were the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White, which at that time was...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-1900
4 East 54th Street, New York, NY
This former residence of William H. Moore is a fine example of a turn of the century stone townhouse. Its strong Italian Renaissance facade, rich carving and simple window arrangement (fenestration) give the building...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1905
120 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
When Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, designed this handsome Federal Eclectic building in 1905, his client was the Colony Club, the first women's organization in New York City to build itself a club house for...
Read the storyBank · 1894
130 Bowery, New York, NY
The World's Columbian Exposition, at Chicago in 1893, brought to this country a new classicism. This Bank of 1894 was one of the first to herald the new style making the most of a difficult L-shaped site. The narrow...
Read the storyEducational · 1926-27
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Casa Italiana, a neo-Italian Renaissance style institutional building, was designed as a center for Italian studies by the prestigious architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. Built in 1926-27, it is located on the,...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison Blockfront" due...
Read the storyLibrary · 1903
31 E Broadway, New York, NY
Opened on November 2, 1903, the Chatham Square Branch of The New York Public Library is the third Carnegie branch library built in New York City. It is one of twenty in Manhattan and one of sixty-seven in New York City,...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-02
22 East 35th Street, New York, NY
This charming building, now the home of the Collectors Club, was constructed in 1901-02 as the residence of Thomas Benedict Clarke in the fashionable Murray Hill section of New York. An especially notable example of...
Read the storyBank · 1836-42 & 1907
55 Wall Street, New York, NY
The First National City Bank is an outstandingly handsome bank building, executed in granite and designed in a truly monumental scale. Occupying an entire city block, this imposing building impresses many observers even...
Read the storyResidential · 1889-1892
23 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1889-92 for J. Hampden Robb and his wife Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb, this elegant and imposing structure is considered one of the finest urban residences designed by Stanford White of the prominent...
Read the storyCommercial · 1894-98
346 Broadway, New York, NY
The home office of the New York Life insurance Company, organized in 1841 and one of the oldest life insurance companies in America. was constructed between 1894 and 1898. A monumental freestanding skyscraper in the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1903-06
409 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The former Tiffany & Company Building at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street is one of the most elegant commercial palaces in New York. Built in 1903-06, the structure was designed by McKim, Mead & White, one of the nation's...
Read the storyCommercial · 1904-06
390 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This elegant commercial building, constructed in 1904-05 for the Gorham Manufacturing Company, contained its wholesale and retail showrooms, offices, and workshops. Designed by Stanford White of the prominent...
Read the storyLibrary · 1905-06
505 West 145th Street, New York, NY
The Hamilton Grange Branch Library, built by McKim, Mead & White in 1905-6 in the style of the Italian Renaissance, has the true character of a Florentine palazzo. This three-story stone building shows The sensitivity...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-86
26 East 51st Street, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is skillfully...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-84
455 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is skillfully...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-85
457 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is skillfully...
Read the storyReligious · 1877
54 Washington Square South, New York, NY
Standing on the south side of Washington Square, this Italian Renaissance Eclectic building and ten story Tower combine to form a striking composition. The walls are warm yellow Roman Brick and represent the...
Read the storyReligious · 1892
55 Washington Square South, New York, NY
Sitting proudly on a corner lot of Washington Square South, this small rectangular church, with its sharply defined gable roof, is a superb example of Italian Renaissance Eclectic architecture. Adjacent to and...
Read the storyLibrary · 1895-97
Low Memorial Library, New York, NY
Low Memorial Library is a majestic building of truly monumental proportions. It is situated on a slight rise overlooking the south campus of Columbia University. This Roman stone building, designed in the form of a...
Read the storyMuseum · 1880; Fifth Avenue facade 1902; later additions
1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Met opened at its present site in 1880, in a Gothic building designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. Later additions surrounded that first structure. The familiar Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall, designed...
Read the storyCommercial · 1914
Chambers Street & Centre Street, New York, NY
The Municipal Building is an impressive Classical skyscraper, rising to a height of 25 stories with a tower above. It represents an effort made by the City, through the use of noted architects and sculptors, to achieve...
Read the storyLibrary · 1904
224 East 125th Street, New York, NY
The 125th Street Branch of The New York Public Library is notable for being one of the Carnegie libraries and a significant Renaissance Revival style building by the important firm of McKim, Mead, & White.
Read the storyClubhouse · 1913-18
370 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The club, first organized in 1873 as the Racquet Court Club, occupied a building at 55 West 26th Street. However, it was incorporated on February 21, 1890, as the Racquet and Tennis Club "to encourage all manly sports...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-06
972 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This mansion stands out on its own architectural merit, on the last remaining blockfront of imposing town houses on Fifth Avenue. The gracious curve of the light gray granite front, about forty feet wide, rises through...
Read the storyLibrary · 1904-05
103 West 135th Street, New York, NY
Built as the West 135th Street Branch Library, the former Schomburg Collection building at 103 West 135th Street was designed in 1904 by the eminent firm of McKim, Mead & White. Small and dignified, the structure is one...
Read the storyResidential · 1925-26
684 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison Blockfront" due...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1894
27 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Sitting erect and dignified on West Forty-Fourth Street is this trim and elegant Georgian club house. The charm of this building lies in its red brick with limestone trim and in its intimate scale, the delicate...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1904-05
128 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Lambs, built in 1904-05, is a handsome neo-Georgian style clubhouse designed by the prominent New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. An extension, added in 1915 by architect George A. Freeman,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1897-99
1 West 54th Street, New York, NY
The University Club on its conspicuous corner site is one of the handsomest buildings on Fifth Avenue. Although this granite building of stately end noble proportions closely resembles a sixteenth century Italian...
Read the storyLibrary · 1904
331 East 10th Street, New York, NY
Opened on December 1, 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of The New York Public Library is one of the earliest Carnegie branch libraries in New York City. It is one of twenty in Manhattan and one of sixty-seven in New...
Read the storyCivic · 1919-21
123 W 43rd St, New York, NY
Characterized by one contemporary observer as "an idea with a roof over it" Town Hall was built in 1919-1921 as a meeting hall for the city of New York. The architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White was asked by the...
Read the storyCivic · 1910-13
8th Avenue & 31st Street, New York, NY
An inscription occupying the entire height and length of the frieze of the entablature crowning one of the most monumental Classic colonnades in New York quotes Herodotus, "Neither Snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of...
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