Stanford White

by Charles C. Baldwin

Overview

Richard Harding Davis used to complain because-when speaking of Stanford White-he found it necessary to ex- plain what White was not before telling what he was: the greatest designer, and probably the greatest architect, this country has ever produced. Had White died in bed, with his family and his friends about him, there would have been no word of dispraise. He stood at the head of his profession; he was not yet fifty-three; great things were expected of him. But he allowed himself to be murdered, on a roof garden, by a Pittsburgh ne'er-do-well. Now "murder," as every newsboy knows, is the greatest word that can be put into a headline. Even in small type it sells. And shouted from every street corner .... The newspapers made the most of White's murder. Thaw, the murderer, stayed on the front pages from June 25 to July 13, 1906, returning on January 23, 1907, the first day of his first trial. He was pictured as in some sort a hero, the defender of his home. White was the villain of the piece. Davis, speaking as one who had been for fifteen years in the newspaper business, said: ttl have never known an attack to be made upon anyone as undeserved, as unfair, as false, as the attack upon White." In their search for motives, in their eagerness for circu- lation, in their shameless greed, the newspapers despatched detectives and reporters to interview valets and chorus girls, bell boys and waiters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468462241
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	03/23/2012
Edition description:	1931
Pages:	399
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I Stanford White.- II The White Family in America.- III Stanford White’s Father.- IV His Youth.- V Apprenticed to Richardson.- VI The Beginnings of his Friendship with St. Gaudens.- VII Aboard Ship—Bound for Europe—July, 1878.- VIII Arrived in Paris. First Impressions.- IX Exploring the South of France with McKim and St. Gaudens.- X The Grand Tour.- XI The Voyage Home, September, 1879.- XII American Architecture Before 1880.- XIII McKim, Mead & White.- XIV The Practice of Architecture in the Early Eighties.- XV The Farragut, the Randall and the Morgan Monuments.- XVI With Dick and St. Gaudens in New Mexico.- XVII Marriage.- XVIII 1885–1887.- XIX Salmon Fishing.- XX Boston Speaks its Mind Concerning McKim, Mead & White.- XXI The Washington Arch.- XXII Madison Square Garden.- XXIII The Festive Diana.- XXIV The Columbus Celebration.- XXV The Herald Building.- XXVI The University of Virginia, New York University and Columbia College.- XXVII Clubs and Clubhouses.- XXVIII Churches and Church Architecture.- XXIX Sherry’S—And the Invasion of Upper Fifth Avenue.- XXX Magazine and Book Covers.- XXXI The Theatre.- XXXII The Turn of the Century in New York.- XXXIII Wherein Draughtsmen Differ from Valets.- XXXIV White was Fortunate in his Clients.- XXXV White as Seen by Simmons.- XXXVI —And by Janet Scudder.- XXXVII Later Correspondence with St. Gaudens.- XXXVIII January To June, 1906.- XXXIX Midsummer.- XL The Thaw Case.- XLI Twenty Years Later.- Appenddc—Biographical and Critical Notes Dealing, for the Most, with White’s Friends and Their Relation to Him.