Racquet and Tennis Club

Brooklyn Museum

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1st Ave. between E. 27th and E. 28th Sts.

The David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building

Soldier's Field

St. Bartholomew's Church 

The firm retained its name long after the deaths of founding partners White (1906), McKim (1909), and Mead (1928). The major partners became William M. Kendall and Lawrence Grant White, Stanford's son. Among the firm's final works under the name McKim, Mead &amp; White was the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Designed primarily by partner James Kellum Smith, it opened in 1964. Smith died in 1961, and the firm was soon renamed Steinmann, Cain and White.&nbsp;

The firm became Walker O. Cain and Associates.

McKim, Mead &amp; White was one of the most prominent architectural firm in the history of American architecture. &nbsp;The firm was a major training ground for many other prominent architects -partners, associates, designers and draftsmen.

McKim, Mead & White

 Architectural historian Gail Cornell talks about the Manhattan Municipal Building. 

 Author and historian Douglass Shand-Tucci gives observations about the Boston Public Library. 

 Douglass Shand-Tucci discusses the importance of the Boston Public Library in regards to Boston's history. 

Ann Beha from Ann Beha Architects talks about Symphony Hall.

 Symphony Hall opened on October 15, 1900 with an inaugural gala led by music director Wilhelm Gericke. The architects, McKim, Mead & White of New York, engaged Wallace Clement Sabine, a young assistant professor of physics at Harvard, as their acoustical consultant, and Symphony Hall became the first auditorium designed in accordance with scientifically derived acoustical principles. 

Symphony Hall is widely regarded as one of the top finest concert halls in the world. The walls of the stage slope inward to help focus the sound. The side balconies are shallow so as not to trap any of the sound, and the recesses of the coffered ceiling, along with the statue-filled niches along the three sides, help to distribute the sound throughout the hall. The 16 replicas of Greek and Roman statues are related in some way to music, art, or literature. They were placed in the niches as part of an appreciation of the frequently quoted words, "Boston, the Athens of America," written by Bostonian William Tudor in the early 19th century. The Symphony Hall organ, an Aeolian Skinner designed by G. Donald Harrison and installed in 1949, is considered one of the finest concert hall organs in the world.