Stanford white bio

Stanford White (November 9, – June 25, ) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to this day in places like Sea Gate, Brooklyn.

His design principles embodied the "American Renaissance".

In , White was murdered by millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw over White's affair with Thaw's wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit, leading to a trial which was dubbed at the time "The Trial of the Century".[1]

Life and career

Stanford White was the son of Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White and Alexina Black Mease (–).

He began his architectural career as the principal assistant to Henry Hobson Richardson, the greatest American architect of the day, creator of a style recognized today as "Richardsonian Romanesque". In , White embarked for a year and a half in