in Vermont. In 1913 he received the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mead retired in 1920, and died on June 30, 1928, in a Paris hotel room from a heart attack, after an illness of several weeks, with his wife at his side. Mead was the last of the firm's founding partners to die, as McKim died in 1909, after White in 1906. At his death, his estate of $250,000 went to his wife, Olga. Olga moved in with her sister in New York City, and died on April 10, 1936, in New York City in her apartment in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. She left her entire estate to the trustees of Amherst College. The money was used to build the Mead Art Building, which was designed by James Kellum Smith of McKim, Mead and White. The building was completed in 1949 and houses the Mead Art Museum. References Notes Bibliography Baker, Paul R. Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White New York: Free Press, 1989 Broderick, Mosette. Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age Broderick, 2010 Primary sources Mead's papers are archived at Amherst College. This collection includes papers related to Mead's architectural designs for "Redtop," the house in Belmont, Massachusetts, which Mead designed for his sister Elinor Mead Howells. Citation: Mead Papers, 1840–2001 (Bulk: 1846–1950) in William Rutherford Mead (AC 1867) and Olga Kilyeni Mead Papers, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library. External links William Rutherford Mead (AC 1867) and Olga Kilyeni Mead Papers from the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections McKim, Mead & White in Buffalo McKim, Mead, and White McKim, Mead, and White FindaGrave site with photos of gravestone of William and Olga in Rome, Italy The McKim Mead & White Architectural Records Collection at the New York Historical Society 1846 births 1928 deaths American neoclassical architects Architects from Vermont Amherst College alumni Norwich University alumni People from Brattleboro, Vermont Architects from New York City 19th-century American architects 20th-century American architects Hayes family