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William Mitchell Kendall

William Mitchell Kendall (1856-1941) was an American architect who spent his architectural career with the New York firm of McKim, Mead & White, from 1882 until his death in 1941. Kendall's work exemplifies the Beaux-Arts principles for which the firm was known and includes such buildings as the original Madison Square Garden, the Morgan Library, the Washington Arch, and the Main Post Office, all in New York City; Arlington Memorial Bridge and the restoration of St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.; the American Academy in Rome; the Harvard University School of Business; and the Plymouth Rock Memorial. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1876, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1876 to 1878, and completed a year of travel and study in France and Italy. He was a member of the Committee for the Beautification of Permanent American Military Cemeteries in France and England, and designed war memorials at several of the cemeteries. Kendall was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; served as a trustee of the American Academy in Rome; was a member of the National Academy of Design and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants; and served on the 1934 Prix de Rome jury with Louis Ayres and John Russell Pope. He was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1921. Kendall was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and was honored with a merit award from the AIA's New York Chapter in 1929.

Category:American architects