McKim to Mead: "The Office [is] Prospering"

“I think you will agree [that] the office [is] prospering, when I tell you of the several new jobs in hand, as well as in prospect,” McKim wrote to his business partner William Rutherford Mead in April 1902. One architectural commission McKim, Mead & White had just secured was New York’s monumental new Pennsylvania Station, which would open in 1910. Another, McKim explained, was from Morgan, who wanted to “build a little Museum building to house his books and collections.”