. Charles Follen McKim; a study of his life and work. den, as well as of all the improvementssuggested by the Commission, were prepared by dif-ferent artists, and these drawings with accurate modelsof the city as it was, and the city as it would be, wereexhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, andat other galleries in various large cities of the country,and aroused the greatest enthusiasm among the peopleat large. The full report of the Commission was pub-lished with many illustrations. This report is so com-plete, and such interesting reading, going as it does intodetails of everythin
. Charles Follen McKim; a study of his life and work. den, as well as of all the improvementssuggested by the Commission, were prepared by dif-ferent artists, and these drawings with accurate modelsof the city as it was, and the city as it would be, wereexhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, andat other galleries in various large cities of the country,and aroused the greatest enthusiasm among the peopleat large. The full report of the Commission was pub-lished with many illustrations. This report is so com-plete, and such interesting reading, going as it does intodetails of everything pertaining to a great, beautiful,and healthy city, that I regret the impossibility of pub-lishing It complete in this memoir, especially as onecannot but recognize in reading it the influence of Mc-Kims conser\ati\e mind, preserxing carefully everyimportant feature of the original plan, and lookingwith large foresight to the future growth of the city,and planning everything on the broadest lines. With the preparation of the report, which was the68. THE PARK COMMISSION PLANwork of over a year of continual labor on the part ofeach member of the Commission, the real work washardly begun. The whole matter had to be laid beforeCongress and, as was natural, met with strong opposi-tion. Here McKim came prominently forward, andat no time in his career did his personality count formore. He persuaded his opponents but never argued,and as he never yielded a point when once convincedofthe Tightness of his position, his quiet tact and persistence, combined with his keen sense of humor, carriedthe day. It was during the sittings of the Commissionthat he was entrusted with the remodeling of the WhiteHouse and the building of the new War College, eachof which was sufficient to occupy all the time of oneman, but he cheerfully undertook all this work andcarried it through. He was so much in Washingtonthat he became closely identified with the social life ofthe city, where his wonderful charm o
Size: 1212px × 2060px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidcharlesfolle, bookyear1913
