William Rutherford Mead
…Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm. The firm's other founding partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) and Stanford White (1853–1906). Mead was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was a first cousin, once removed of President Rutherford B. Hayes, hence his middle name. His…