McKim, Charles Follen (1847-1909)

US architect. His principal buildings, mainly monumental and classical in style, were designed in partnership with William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) and Stanford White (1853-1906); together they formed the company McKim, Mead & White in 1879. His commissions included the restoration of the White House, Washington, DC.

McKim was born in Isabelle Furnace, Pennsylvania, and educated at Harvard University, then the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He returned to the USA in 1870, where he initially worked under Henry Hobson Richardson. In 1877 he began practice in partnership with W R Mead, and in 1879 they were joined by Stanford White. His designs include the Boston public library 1887-95, and the agricultural pavilion at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. In New York he and his partners designed the Tiffany Building, the Herald Square Building, the University Club, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Pennsylvania station, Columbia University, and Madison Square Garden. They also collaborated on the American Academy at Rome, the Rhode Island State House, and the restoration of the University of Virginia.