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| Architect | McKim, Mead, and White |
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| Location | New York, New York map | ||||||
| Date | 1900 timeline | ||||||
| Building Type | social club | ||||||
| Construction System | masonry bearing walls, steel spans, conc | ||||||
| Climate | temperate | ||||||
| Context | urban | ||||||
| Style | Italian Renaissance Revival | ||||||
| Notes | Classic facade | ||||||
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| Discussion | University Club Commentary
"...The plan was organized around an enclosed cortille that received different treatment on alternating floors, beginning as a full colonnade on the first floor, becoming a three-sided colonnade on the second floor and shrinking to four piers on the third floor....The centerpiece of the design, appropriate for a club of learning, is the library on the second floor, and here no expense was spared. In a long, barrel-vaulted room with cross-groin vaults, ...supposedly Le Corbusier on a visit in 1935 declared he could understand how one would become a Beaux-Arts architect, or as he wrote: 'In New York, then, I learn to appreciate the Italian Renaissance. It is so well done that you could not believe it to be genuine. It even has a strange new firmness which is not Italian, but American.' " —Richard Guy Wilson. McKim, Mead & White Architects. p186-192. | ||||||
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Sources on University Club
Benjamin Blom. A Monograph of the Works of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915. With an essay by Leland Roth. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1973. photo of first floor hall, plate 135. photo of general view of library, plate 137. photo of main etrance, plate 133. photo of exterior, plate 130. Edward Ford. The Details of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 0-262-06121-X. LC 89-31772. NA2840.F67 1989. exterior and detail photos, construction section drawings, p60-63. Highly recommended for serious observers, and available at Amazon.com Lawrence A. Martin, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, September 1993. PCD.3235.1012.0545.082. PCD.3235.1012.0545.075. Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. University club perspective drawing, p113. Richard Guy Wilson. McKim, Mead & White Architects. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0491-7. LC 83-4534. NA737.M4W54 1983. p186-192. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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