Architect Stanford White in Washington, DC
Stanford White (1853-1906) was a name partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, a preeminent firm of the Beaux-Arts architectural style. White specialized in designing private homes for the rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings.
White designed and decorated Fifth Avenue mansions for the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and other high society families. His Washington Square Arch still stands in Washington Square Park. He also designed club houses, which were focal points of New York society: the Century, Metropolitan, Players, Lambs, Colony and Harmonie clubs. In Washington, DC White designed homes for Thomas Nelson Page (1896) and Nellie Patterson (1903).
