Background
Kendall, William Mitchell was born on February 13, 1856 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joshua and Phoebe (Mitchell) K.: Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1876.
Kendall, William Mitchell was born on February 13, 1856 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joshua and Phoebe (Mitchell) K.: Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1876.
Studied architecture for 2 years at Massachusetts Institute Technology and for several years in Italy and France. Doctor of Humane Letters, Bowdoin, 1923. Master of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1930.
Member McKim, Mead & White, New New York Among buildings designed by the firm are the new Post Office and the Municipal Office Building, New New York The Journalism and Avery Library buildings, and dwelling of the president, at Columbia University. Houses for Percy R. Pyne and Geraldyn Redmond, New York, and house for Thos.
Newbold, New New York
Butler Art Gallery, Youngstown, Ohio, the McKinley memorial, Niles, O. Building for Academy of Arts and Letters, New New York Plymouth Rock Portico, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Restoration Saint John's Church, Washington. Building for American Academy in Rome.
Tennessee War Memorial, Nashville.
Arlington Memorial Bridge. Building for Harvard School of Business. John West. Weeks Memorial Bridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Casa Italiana, New New York
Chapel, University of Vermont. Rochester Savings Bank.
Savoy Plaza Hotel, New New York Additional wings to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New New York
Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University.
City Hall, Burlington, Vermont. War Memorial, Newport, Rhode Island. Ira Allen Chapel, Burlington, Vermont.
Gymnasium and other buildings for Adelphi College.
National Academician. Fellow American Institute Architects.
Trustee American Academy in Rome, member National Academy Arts and Letters. Appointed, 1916, member National communications of Fine Arts.
Member of commission for beautification permanent American military cemeteries, France and England, 1921.
Member McKim, Mead & White, New New York Among buildings designed by the firm are the new Post Office and the Municipal Office Building, New New York Member of commission for beautification permanent American military cemeteries, France and England, 1921.
Married Grace Eliot Endicott, July 14, 1897 (died 1919).