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for William Mitchell Kendall
1856 - 1941
Kendall graduated from Harvard University in 1876 and pursued his study of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge. After a brief sojourn in Europe he moved to New York and joined the firm of McKim, Mead and White. He was responsible for the design of many of the architectural details of the firm's most renowned buildings including the old Madison Square Garden, the Morgan Library, and the Washington Arch. In 1922 he was appointed a member of the United States commission to devise a scheme to restore the permanent cemetaries for World War I dead in France, Italy and England.
