Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 – August 6, 1978) was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India, The Keller Center at the University of Chicago, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Edward Durell Stone
(1902-03-09)March 9, 1902
August 6, 1978(1978-08-06) (aged 76)
Architect
Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Arkansas, 1951
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Doctor of Fine Arts, Colby College, 1959
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Master of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, 1961
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Doctor of Fine Arts, Hamilton College, 1962
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and the Center Theater, in Rockefeller Center, New York City (as senior designer in the employ of the Rockefeller Center Associated Architects with Donald Deskey and Eugene Schoen, interior designers, 1932)
Radio City Music Hall
Mepkin Plantation for Mr. and Mrs. , (now known as Mepkin Abbey), Monck's Corner, South Carolina (1936)
Henry R. Luce
New York City, (Philip L. Goodwin, associate architect, 1937)
Museum of Modern Art
Ingersoll Steel, Utility Unit House, (1946)
Kalamazoo, Michigan
El Panama Hotel, (Mendez and Sanders, associated architects, 1946)
Panama City, Panama
Fine Arts Center, , Fayetteville, Arkansas (Haralson & Mott, associated architects, 1948)
University of Arkansas
India (1954)
United States Embassy, New Delhi
Phoenicia InterContinental Hotel first phase, (Elias and Dagher, associated architects, 1954. Second phase by Joseph Philippe Karam, then altered 1997)
Beirut, Lebanon
Bruno & Josephine Graf Residence, , Texas (1956)
Dallas
Main Library and Mitchell Park Branch Library, Palo Alto, California (1956, Mitchell Park Branch demolished 2010)
Edward Durell Stone Townhouse, 130 East 64th Street, New York City (1956)
Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., (1956, partially demolished)
Pasadena, California
First Unitarian Society Church, (1958)
Schenectady, New York
Gallery of Modern Art, including the Collection (now known as Museum of Arts & Design), New York City (1958, substantially altered 2006)
Huntington Hartford
(now known as Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences New Orleans), New Orleans, Louisiana (Robert Hall, associate architect, 1959)
International Trade Mart
Raleigh, North Carolina (Holloway-Reeves & Associates, associated architects, 1960)
North Carolina State Legislative Building
Beckman Auditorium, , Pasadena, California (1960)
California Institute of Technology
Museum, Washington, D.C. (1961)
National Geographic Society
Albany, New York (1962)
State University of New York at Albany
Washington, D.C. (1962)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Claremont, California (1963)
Claremont School of Theology
P.S. 199 School, Lincoln Square/Upper West Side, New York (1963)
New York City (Emory Roth and Sons, associated architects, 1964)
General Motors Building
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (1964)
Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma (Murray, Jones and Murray, associated architects, 1964, expanded and renamed to Cox Business Center)
Tulsa Convention Center
Von KleinSmid Center, , Los Angeles, California (1964)
University of Southern California
(1965)
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
Bernard P. McDonough Hall, Washington, D.C. (1966)
Georgetown University Law Center
Brith Emeth Temple, (1967)
Pepper Pike, Ohio
Fort Worth City Hall, (1967)
Fort Worth, Texas
Jefferson County Civic Center, (1968)
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Worcester Science Museum (now known as the ), Worcester, Massachusetts, (1964, altered 1998)
EcoTarium
Amarillo, Texas (1972)
Amarillo Museum of Art
Standard Oil Building (now known as ), Chicago, Illinois (Perkins & Will, associated architects, 1972)
Aon Center
Building, Buffalo, New York (1973)
Buffalo News
Scripps Green Hospital, (1974)
La Jolla, California
Babin Kuk Resort, (1976)
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Scripps Anderson Outpatient Pavilion, (by Edward Durell Stone Associates, 1983)
La Jolla, California
Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)
Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)
Palo Alto Main Library, Palo Alto, California (1956)
Edward Durell Stone Townhouse, New York City (1956)
United States Pavilion, Expo 1958, Brussels, Belgium (1957)
First Unitarian Society, Schenectady, New York (1958)
National Geographic Society Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 1961)
PepsiCo Headquarters, Purchase, New York (1967)
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1975)
Stone, Hicks (2011). . Random House Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8478-3568-3.
Edward Durell Stone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect
von Eckardt, Wolf (1961). . Johns Hopkins Press.
Mid-century Architecture in America: Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects, 1949-1961
Hunting, Mary Anne (2013). . W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-73301-3. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect
Williams, John Griffith (1984). . University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9780938626329. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
The curious and the beautiful: a memoir history of the architecture program at the University of Arkansas
Stone, Edward Durell (1967). Edward Durell Stone: Recent and Future Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
The Edward Durell Stone web site, a resource for current information on the life and work of Edward Durell Stone
Finding Aid for the Edward Durell Stone Papers at The University of Arkansas, David W. Mullins Library, Department of Special Collections
Finding Aid for the James Hicks Stone Papers at The University of Arkansas, David W. Mullins Library, Department of Special Collections
The Edward Durell Stone entry in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture by Robert L. Skolmen
An Edward Durell Stone biography established and maintained by the State University of New York at Albany
Photographs of the Bruno and Josephine Graf house in Dallas, Texas
Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, "In Memoriam: Edward Durell Stone's Carlson Terrace, 1957–2007"
Two views on 2 Columbus Circle