McKim -- A mighty serious thing -- To become an architect -- The marriage and Newport -- McKim and Mead in the early years -- Stratton and Wells -- Stanford White -- White in Europe -- The butlers, the Smiths, and the Stewarts -- Joe Wells -- The summer house and the seaside house -- The suburban house -- City houses -- The end of the picturesque -- Success -- Stanford White gets married -- Wedding bells for McKim and Mead -- The railroad barons -- Shifting dynamics in the 1880s -- Madison Square Garden -- The free classical style -- The Boston Public Library : McKim searches for inspiration -- The men in the office -- Club land -- New York Life Insurance builds -- The office at work -- The Washington Square arch and public ceremony -- The Stewart bubble bursts -- The world of the past -- Back at the office -- Evarts, the Butlers, Choate, and Beaman -- Stanford White's artists -- The Metropolitan Club -- The accommodations of success -- The world begins to spin -- The Chicago fair -- Old colleges and new buildings -- McKim's New York clubhouses -- The American school in Rome -- The swan song of the wooden house -- On top of the world -- McKim meets his daughter -- The Pennsylvania station -- The King's medal -- The new century for White -- Payne Whitney's house -- The gilded age tarnishes -- The trial of the century -- Vogue la galere.
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