Harvard Stadium was completed in 1903, with modifications in the 1910s and 1920s. The structure is a designated National Historic Landmark, and is notable for its early use of monolithic reinforced concrete, its simple horseshoe shape, and its role in shaping the sport of American football. It is the oldest college football venue still in use. Construction of the Stadium was funded by the Harvard College class of 1879 and funds from the Athletic Committee. The building was constructed from funds provided by the Athletic Committee and the Class of 1879. "The WGU (World`s Greatest University, as a Globe columnist snidely dubs Harvard) is preparing to launch a major expansion into Allston, across the river from Cambridge. In the older photo, we show an early beachhead of that invasion, the Harvard Stadium of 1902. College football was the sport of the day, and WGU, hard as it is to believe, was a national power. WGU found it wasn`t easy to shoehorn a major sports facility into a crowded town. So the stadium was sited across the river, to be followed in the 1920s by the Harvard Business School. Today, unable to grow in Cambridge in the face of defiant neighborhoods, Harvard hopes to drag other schools &ndash; all of which are kicking and screaming &ndash; out of the magic ZIP code 02138. The stadium is a remarkable building. The entire exterior is wrapped in an arcade that is one huge chunk of poured-in-place concrete. The largest such structure in the world at the time, the stadium demonstrated the architectural potential of this new material, preceding, by two years, Frank Lloyd Wright`s great Unity Temple in Chicago. The stadium`s horseshoe shape, with classical details, recalled the theaters of ancient Greece and Rome, an association the young scholar-athletes must have enjoyed. A performance of Aeschylus`s Agamemnon, with live horses, took place here in 1906. The stadium`s lead architect was Charles McKim, designer of the Boston Public Library and Symphony Hall. In the foreground of the older photo is a rickety bridge across the Charles, with an operable span in the middle for coal and lumber barges. A bridge has stood in this location since 1663. The new photo, in which the stadium is obscured by more recent buildings, shows the Larz Anderson Bridge of 1913, designed by Edmund Wheelwright, best loved for his Harvard Lampoon building. Both photos were taken from an upper window of the Weld Boathouse of 1907. In its early days, Allston-Brighton was known as Little Cambridge. With Harvard`s anticipated expansion and investment in the community, it will perhaps, in a sense, be so again." -Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker, "CITYSCAPES - Harvard Stadium," Boston Globe, 9 July 2000

Harvard Stadium

 As Rector of Trinity Church, Phillips Brooks oversaw the construction of one of Boston's greatest architectural landmarks. Trinity Church was founded in 1733, but a fire in 1872 destroyed the original building, allowing Brooks to commission this iconic Romanesque-style structure. In this work, the sculptors depict him as a man of great moral and physical stature, and as an impassioned speaker. The cloaked figure of Christ stands behind Brooks and places a hand on his left shoulder, lending him additional authority. Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his assistant Frances Grimes designed the sculpture while the notable architects Stanford White and Charles McKim designed the domed niche. Such collaboration between artists and architects is common in the realm of public art, where works often blur the boundaries between art, architecture, and landscape design. Courtesy of Boston Art Commission. 

Phillips Brooks

Home to thirteen of NYC`s municipal agencies, the Municipal Building is one of the city`s most imposing presences, with an influence on civic architecture that reached as far as Stalinist Russia. Its tower is topped by Adolph Weinman`s statue “Civic Fame” and its grandly proportioned arch frames a tunnel once traversed by Chambers Street traffic.Manhattan Municipal Building resulted from 4 architectural competitions, of which the last was to design the building in conjunction with a subway and trolley terminal at the Brooklyn Bridge , finally won by McKim Mead and White, then the largest architectural firm in the world; it was their 1st skyscraper.

The building is shaped like a ten-sided "C", in an irregular hexaagon shaped lot. The building accommodates the diagonal paths of Duane Street and Park Row, The orientation of the floor plan ensures that all of the building's windows would be able to receive direct sunlight and eliminated the need for an interior light court.At 580 feet and 34 stories tall; the main structure consists of 26 stories, and a tower, flanked by four circular turrets, rises 8 stories above. The circular section of the central tower is composed of two layers: an enclosed space surrounded by columns, atop which is a smaller peristyle. Atop the northern and southern wings of the "C" are pavilion roofs, which are connected to the central tower with roof decks and a stone cornice.&nbsp;The facade is made of ashlar granite below and terracotta above the 23rd floor. A three-story colonnade of Corinthian columns runs across the base along Centre Street. A large, arched vaulted terracotta corridor is located at the center of the building's base. On the roof is Civic Fame, a 25-foot-tall statue

In addition to Civic Fame, Weinman sculpted the rectangular allegorical bas-relief panels at the base of the building, which are located above the side arches. Civic Duty, above the smaller arch to the right (south) of the center arch, shows a female representation of the city alongside a child holding the city seal. Civic Pride, above the smaller arch to the left (north), depicted the city as a woman "receiving tribute from her citizens". There are heroic-scaled winged figures above the spandrels of the side arches: Guidance, a depiction of a female on the left arch, and Executive Power, a depiction of a male on the right arch. These are respectively topped by medallions representing Progress, a nude kneeling man with a torch in one hand and a winged sphere in the other, and Prudence, a half-nude kneeling woman holding a mirror while a serpent is curled around her right arm.

 This floor plan ensured that all of the building's windows would be able to receive direct sunlight and eliminated the need for an interior courtyard, which could not be lit by sunlight.  

 22nd-floor false colonnade, and elevators. The shields represent the historical New Amsterdam and the Province of New York, as well as the present-day county, city, and state of New York (the county of New York being coextensive with the borough of Manhattan).  

The David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building

Municipal Building

 Architectural historian Gail Cornell talks about the Manhattan Municipal Building. 

French was commissioned in 1901 and began working on the design. &nbsp;The woman in academic robes holding a scepter of stalks of wheat on top of which is a small version of the original crown of King's College. The final work was to have been ready for the 1902 Commencement but the piece didn't get completed until the first day of classes in 1903.&nbsp;

When Charles McKim originally planned the Columbia campus he left a large granite plinth on the grand staircase to the Low Library as a ‘placeholder’ for an appropriate statue to welcome visitors to the University. &nbsp;Several years later a donor, the family of Robert Goelet appeared. &nbsp;

Opening of the institution's 150th academic year celebrated by the dedication of [Daniel Chester] French's Masterpiece of Sculpture--T. C. Muller.

on the steps of Low Library - on the campus

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Charles Follen McKim FAIA was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead, and White. McKim received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Medaille d'Or at the 1900 Paris Exposition, a gold medal from Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and honorary doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. &nbsp;He received the AIA Gold Medal, posthumously, in 1909.

Often depressed and always well dressed, Charles McKim was known to be a perfectionist about the quality of construction rejecting samples that did not conform to his high standards. &nbsp;

Morgan was a pallbearer at his funeral.

Charles Follen McKim

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