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The Divine comedy: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; a new translation into English blank verse by Lawrence Grant White, with illustrations by Gustave Doré
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Ann Octavia White (ca. 1932–2021), an architect who married in 1955 Harold Buttrick (1931–2015), co-founder of the architecture firm
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Smith) White (1862–1950). His only sibling, an elder brother who died in infancy in 1885, was named after his paternal grandfather
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and Margaret Chanler, his wife's mother. The Bliss' engaged White and the firm to design the buildings of the Service Group at
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Lawrence White, who was known as Larry, was born in New York City in 1887, the only surviving child of renowned architect
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in Paris. From 1915 until 1917, he worked at McKim, Mead & White (as did his Harvard classmate and fellow architect
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James N. Carder, "The Architectural History of Dumbarton Oaks and the Contribution of Armand Albert Rateau," in
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Stanford White: Letters to His Family : Including a Selection of Letters to Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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John Chanler White (1924–1989), who married in 1968 Claire Raiguel McAllister, the daughter of Judge
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Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age
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Lawrence Grant White has many descendants, including Genevieve White Carter, an interior designer.
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Carried 1,320 Passengers; Had 325 in Her First, 285 in the Second, and 710 in Her Third Cabin"
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scholar, husband of Alexina Black (née Mease) White. Larry White's maternal grandparents were
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On June 19, 1916, Larry White married Laura Astor Chanler (1887–1984), the eldest child of
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King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
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A Home of the Humanities: The Collecting and Patronage of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss
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estate. In 1906, when he was almost 20 years old, his father was shot and killed by
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Cynthia Margaret White (b. ca. 1927), who married Robert Dean Jay (1921–1998).
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Alida Mary White (ca. 1922–2020), who married (1st) in 1943 the composer
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The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
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Harrison, Helen A., Art Review: "Creative Lines, Haunted by Scandal,"
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F. L. Peter White (1917–2009), who married Jehanne Price in 1943.
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as well as the Music Room and the East Bay of the living room.
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Elizabeth Stuyvesant White (1920–2011), a Roman Catholic nun.
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in Paris. Together, they raised eight children at Box Hill:
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is named. An uncle, James Clinch Smith, died aboard the
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Larry White died on September 8, 1956, at his home in
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Sarah M. White (b. ca. 1929), a Roman Catholic nun.
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Random House Incorporated. pp. 5, 9, 18. 435:; and a painter and sculptor who trained at the 926:"Noted Architect Elected Trustee of Art Museum" 736:November 28, 2004, retrieved February 22, 2018. 961: 913:Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 795:Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 273:, and in 1913, he received a diploma from the 862: 690: 524: 522: 520: 518: 516: 308:, co-founded in 1879 by his late father with 1239:"Paid Notice: Deaths Buttrick, Harold Edgar" 1231: 584: 194:(1853–1906) and Elizabeth "Bessie" Springs ( 1259: 1203: 1175: 1119: 808: 236:over the father's affair with Thaw's wife, 1147: 1017: 834: 739: 701: 646: 513: 300:In 1919, after serving in the navy during 284: 29: 875: 590: 304:, he re-joined the architectural firm of 1092: 780: 778: 776: 618: 550: 288: 247: 1293: 1098: 918: 745: 393:shortly before his death. According to 1337: 1211:"Paid Notice: Deaths Jay, Robert Dean" 1155:"Paid Notice: Deaths Hare, Montgomery" 876:Shirinian, Natalie (21 October 2015). 840: 625:Smith, George Stuart (24 April 1912). 1051: 1045: 952: 773: 702:Giovannini, Joseph (18 August 1983). 624: 556: 385:White served as the president of the 366:Chanler was a social acquaintance of 1400:People from Suffolk County, New York 452:(1921–2002), a sculptor who married 389:for five years and a trustee of the 1385:American people of Scottish descent 816:"Frederic King, 84, Architect MEAD" 417:Margaret Louisa (née Terry) Chanler 13: 787:"Lawrence Grant White (1887–1956)" 784: 752:. Arcadia Publishing. p. 30. 343:in New York. He also designed the 14: 1416: 1319: 1294:Lessard, Suzannah (1 July 1996). 1183:"Miss McAllister, John White Wed" 456:(1925–2020), a poet and niece of 1380:20th-century American architects 1355:American neoclassical architects 1052:Jacob, Kathryn Allamong (2010). 841:Gearty, Robert (July 26, 1998). 627:"The Loss of James Clinch Smith" 406: 1287: 1079: 946: 897: 110: 1405:Translators of Dante Alighieri 953:White, Lawrence Grant (1948). 723: 678: 498: 16:American architect (1887–1956) 1: 1375:Architects from New York City 746:Fleming, Geoffrey K. (2006). 506: 345:Pennsylvania Railroad Station 294:Pennsylvania Railroad Station 185: 361:Girard Trust Company offices 335:, and the (since destroyed) 7: 1365:École des Beaux-Arts alumni 957:. 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Carder ( 310:William Rutherford Mead 306:McKim, Mead & White 285:McKim, Mead & White 176:McKim, Mead & White 685:Mr. James Clinch Smith 419:; a descendant of the 413:Winthrop Astor Chanler 374:who were friends with 351:, 52 Wall Street, the 297: 256: 35:White photographed by 1370:Beaux Arts architects 915:, 2010), pps. 92–115. 450:Robert Winthrop White 296:in Newark, New Jersey 292: 251: 127:Robert Winthrop White 1326:Lawrence Grant White 368:Mildred Barnes Bliss 314:Charles Follen McKim 275:École des Beaux-Arts 172:Lawrence Grant White 140:Bessie Springs Smith 92:École des Beaux-Arts 23:Lawrence Grant White 1089:, February 5, 2009. 848:New York Daily News 493:St. James, New York 433:Stuyvesant families 427:, Dudley–Winthrop, 353:Regimental Barracks 208:John Lawrence Smith 200:Richard Grant White 149:Richard Grant White 103:Laura Astor Chanler 77:St. James, New York 37:Francis R. 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Index


Francis R. Appleton
New York City
St. James, New York
Harvard University
École des Beaux-Arts
Robert Winthrop White
Stanford White
Richard Grant White
J. Lawrence Smith
Legion of Honour
McKim, Mead & White
Stanford White
Stanford White
née
Richard Grant White
Shakespearean
John Lawrence Smith
Smithtown
RMS Titanic
Box Hill
Long Island
Harry K. Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit

Hotel Nacional
A.B.
cum laude
Harvard University
École des Beaux-Arts

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