Charles Follen McKim
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Charles Follen McKim was a prominent American Beaux-Arts architect and founding partner of the firm McKim, Mead & White, known for landmark designs such as New York’s Pennsylvania Station and the Boston Public Library.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Follen McKim canonical | 30 |
| Charles F. McKim | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Charles Follen McKim Context triple: [Richard Morris Hunt, influenced, Charles Follen McKim]
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Cass Gilbert
Cass Gilbert was a prominent American architect best known for designing landmark structures such as the Woolworth Building in New York City and the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.
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Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson was a pioneering 19th-century American architect renowned for developing the Richardsonian Romanesque style and designing landmark buildings across the United States.
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Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was a pioneering 19th-century American architect who helped introduce Beaux-Arts principles to the United States and designed many prominent public buildings and grand residences.
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John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope was a prominent American architect best known for his grand neoclassical designs in Washington, D.C., including the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives Building.
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E.
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Charles Follen McKim Target entity description: Charles Follen McKim was a prominent American Beaux-Arts architect and founding partner of the firm McKim, Mead & White, known for landmark designs such as New York’s Pennsylvania Station and the Boston Public Library.
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A.
Cass Gilbert
Cass Gilbert was a prominent American architect best known for designing landmark structures such as the Woolworth Building in New York City and the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson was a pioneering 19th-century American architect renowned for developing the Richardsonian Romanesque style and designing landmark buildings across the United States.
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C.
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was a pioneering 19th-century American architect who helped introduce Beaux-Arts principles to the United States and designed many prominent public buildings and grand residences.
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D.
John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope was a prominent American architect best known for his grand neoclassical designs in Washington, D.C., including the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives Building.
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E.
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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Beaux-Arts architect ⓘ architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
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Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AIA Gold Medal
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surface form:
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal
Royal Gold Medal ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1847-08-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1909-09-14 ⓘ |
| designed |
McKim Building
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Public Library, McKim Building
Columbia University Low Memorial Library ⓘ Morgan Library & Museum (original building) ⓘ
surface form:
Morgan Library building in New York City
Rhode Island State House ⓘ
surface form:
Rhode Island State House in Providence
University Club of New York building ⓘ Penn Station (New York City) ⓘ
surface form:
original Pennsylvania Station in New York City
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| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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École des Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| familyName | McKim ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles Follen McKim self-link ⓘ |
| genre |
civic architecture
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institutional architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| influenced |
American Beaux-Arts architects
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early 20th-century civic architecture in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Henry Hobson Richardson ⓘ |
| memberOf | McKim, Mead & White ⓘ |
| movement |
Beaux-Arts
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surface form:
Beaux-Arts architecture
City Beautiful movement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boston Public Library (Copley Square main branch)
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surface form:
Boston Public Library
Manhattanville campus ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia University campus master plan
Danforth Memorial Library ⓘ Judiciary Square buildings, Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Judiciary Square buildings (Washington, D.C.)
Morgan Library & Museum (original building) ⓘ
surface form:
Morgan Library (New York)
New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City) ⓘ Penn Station (New York City) ⓘ
surface form:
Pennsylvania Station (original New York City station)
Rhode Island State House ⓘ University Club of New York ⓘ |
| notedFor |
integration of sculpture and architecture in civic buildings
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monumental classical compositions ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chester County, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | St. James, New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding partner of McKim, Mead & White ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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Subject: Charles Follen McKim Description of subject: Charles Follen McKim was a prominent American Beaux-Arts architect and founding partner of the firm McKim, Mead & White, known for landmark designs such as New York’s Pennsylvania Station and the Boston Public Library.
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