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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)

New York City, U.S.

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

Bedford Hills, New York (with Donald Deskey, interior designer, 1933)

Richard H. Mandel House

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

Old Westbury, New York (1938)

A. Conger Goodyear House

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

Palo Alto, California (1955)

Stanford Medical Center

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

U.S. Pavilion at , Brussels, Belgium (1957, partially demolished)

Expo 58

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

Norfolk, Virginia (1959, substantially altered 2011)

Robert M. Hughes Memorial Library

Claremont, California (1959)

Harvey Mudd College

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

Ponce, Puerto Rico (1961)

Museo de Arte

(now known as Landmark College), Putney, Vermont (1961)

Windham College

Albany, New York (1962)

State University of New York at Albany

Washington, D.C. (1962)

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Prince George's Center (now known as ), Hyattsville, Maryland (1962)

University Town Center

St. Louis, Missouri (1962, demolished 2005)

Busch Memorial Stadium

Lahore, Pakistan (1962)

WAPDA House

Grand Island, Nebraska (1963)

Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer

Claremont, California (1963)

Claremont School of Theology

P.S. 199 School, Lincoln Square/Upper West Side, New York (1963)

Davenport, Iowa (1964)

Davenport Public Library

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

(now known as PNC Bank Arts Center), Holmdel, New Jersey (1965)

Garden State Arts Center

(1965)

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology

Bernard P. McDonough Hall, Washington, D.C. (1966)

Georgetown University Law Center

Austin, Texas (1966)

Westgate Tower

Brith Emeth Temple, (1967)

Pepper Pike, Ohio

Fort Worth City Hall, (1967)

Fort Worth, Texas

Kirwan-Blanding Complex, , Lexington, Kentucky (1967; demolished 2020)

University of Kentucky

World Headquarters Complex, Purchase, New York (1967)

PepsiCo

Jefferson County Civic Center, (1968)

Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Worcester Science Museum (now known as the ), Worcester, Massachusetts, (1964, altered 1998)

EcoTarium

(1970), Islamabad

Aiwan-e-Sadr

Los Angeles, California (1970)

Wilshire Colonnade

Rancho Mirage, California (1971)

Eisenhower Medical Center

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

First Bank Building (now known as ), Toronto, Ontario (1975)

First Canadian Place

Babin Kuk Resort, (1976)

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Tallahassee, Florida (Reynolds, Smith & Hills, associated architects, 1977)

Florida State Capitol

Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1977)

University of Alabama School of Law

Scripps Anderson Outpatient Pavilion, (by Edward Durell Stone Associates, 1983)

La Jolla, California

Miami, Florida (1984)

Government Center Station

La Jolla, California (by Edward Durell Stone Associates, 1985)

Scripps Research Institute

Museum of Anthropology, , Veracruz, Mexico (by Edward Durell Stone Associates, 1986)

Xalapa

Radio City Music Hall, New York City (1932)

Radio City Music Hall, New York City (1932)

Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)

Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)

Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)

Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)

Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California (1956)

Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California (1956)

Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California (1956)

Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California (1956)

Palo Alto Main Library, Palo Alto, California (1956)

Palo Alto Main Library, Palo Alto, California (1956)

Edward Durell Stone Townhouse, New York City (1956)

Edward Durell Stone Townhouse, New York City (1956)

United States Pavilion, Expo 1958, Brussels, Belgium (1957)

United States Pavilion, Expo 1958, Brussels, Belgium (1957)

First Unitarian Society, Schenectady, New York (1958)

First Unitarian Society, Schenectady, New York (1958)

Beckman Auditorium, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (1960)

Beckman Auditorium, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (1960)

National Geographic Society Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 1961)

National Geographic Society Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 1961)

Metro One Building, University Town Center, Hyattsville, Maryland (1962)

Metro One Building, University Town Center, Hyattsville, Maryland (1962)

Main academic podium, University at Albany, Albany, New York (1962)

Main academic podium, University at Albany, Albany, New York (1962)

Von KleinSmid Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (1964)

Von KleinSmid Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (1964)

General Motors Building, New York City (1964)

General Motors Building, New York City (1964)

ITM Building, New Orleans, Louisiana (1967)

ITM Building, New Orleans, Louisiana (1967)

PepsiCo Headquarters, Purchase, New York (1967)

PepsiCo Headquarters, Purchase, New York (1967)

Aon Center, Chicago, Illinois (1972)

Aon Center, Chicago, Illinois (1972)

First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1975)

First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1975)

Stone, Edward Durell (1962). The Evolution of an Architect. Horizon Press.  929669.

OCLC

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