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[kelber at mindspring.com]

The White of McKim, Mead and White was Stanford White, who had an affair with married Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, and was murdered by her jealous husband -- the OJ Simpson of his time.  Evelyn's a character in Doctorow's novel "Ragtime."

Laura

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>> They sat in a masonry transmitter "shack" designed
>> by McKim, Mead and White, gradually getting used
>> to being alive and on dry land again. A workman's
>> wife had brought them blankets and coffee. Dr Tesla
>> had imported from Trieste. The rainlight came in
>> through a series of high arched windows.
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>that was a real firm - 
>http://www.rooseveltvanderbilt.org/rvitems.htm 
>they built the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park
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>and they really were the contractors for Wardenclyffe
>http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/wardenclyffe.html
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>they're also on this daunting list of architects a well-educated
>person should be familiar with:
>http://academics.triton.edu/faculty/fheitzman/cultlit.html
>- along with Imhotep, Ruskin, and Vitruvius
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>McKim seems to be a misprint - most of the references say
>"McKin" - and they built a pretty cool-looking building
>called Lathrop House in Chicago as well
>http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_aj1992_b.jpg
>-- one of those places one drives by and wishes one had
>a couple dozen friends to share rent on...
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