McKim, Mead & White

US firm of architects, established in 1879 by Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928), Stanford White (1853–1906), and Joseph Merrill Wells (died 1890). Their early work was inspired by Italian High Renaissance architecture rather than the flamboyant baroque style popular in the USA at the time, as evident in their design for the Boston Public Library 1887–95, which owes much to Labrouste's Library of Sainte Geneviève.

Their principal buildings, mainly monumental and classical in style, were the agricultural pavilion at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893; (in New York) Tiffany Building, Herald Square Building, University Club, Pierpont Morgan Library, Pennsylvania railway station, 1904–10 (now demolished), Columbia University, Madison Square Garden; also the American Academy at Rome, Rhode Island State House, restoration of the University of Virginia and of the White House, Washington.