Bachelor Apartments
- Architect
- Charles Follen McKim
- Year
- 1890
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
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The Bachelor Apartments, built in 1890 in downtown Boston, was an early apartment building designed by Charles Follen McKim, one of the founding partners of McKim, Mead & White. It's a Renaissance Revival work from relatively early in the career of an architect who would go on to define the American Beaux-Arts.
the style
Renaissance Revival gave the building a dignified, classically derived front, the kind of borrowed-palazzo look McKim favored for buildings meant to read as respectable urban addresses rather than commercial towers.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Charles Follen McKim co-founded McKim, Mead & White, the firm that would become one of the most influential in American architecture. The Bachelor Apartments, from 1890, is a notable example of his early apartment-building work.
nearby
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- Headquarters House
- David Sears House
- Church of the Advent
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- Nathan Appleton Residence