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Stone (center) viewing a model of NASA's Electronics Research Center, 1964
Born	(1902-03-09)March 9, 1902 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Died	August 6, 1978(1978-08-06) (aged 76) New York City, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Arkansas, Harvard University, MIT
Occupation	Architect

Buildings	Radio City Music Hall, Museum of Modern Art, Kennedy Center, 2 Columbus Circle, First Canadian Place, Aon Center

Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 - August 6, 1978) was an American architect. He is most known for designing buildings with modernist style between 1950-1960s.

North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh, North Carolina (1960)

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, D.C. (1962)

The Uptown Campus of the State University of New York at Albany (1962)

Busch Stadium (1966), the home of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team from 1966-2005 and the St. Louis Cardinals football team from 1966-1987

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Awards and recognitions
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Notable projects

Radio City Music Hall and the Center Theater, in Rockefeller Center, New York City, (He was senior designer working for the Rockefeller Center Associated Architects with Donald Deskey and Eugene Schoen, interior designers, 1932)
Richard H. Mandel House, Bedford Hills, New York (with Donald Deskey, interior designer, 1933)
Mepkin Plantation for Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce, (now known as Mepkin Abbey), Monck's Corner, South Carolina (1936)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, (with Philip S. Goodwin, 1937)
A. Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)
Ingersoll Steel, Utility Unit House, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1946)
El Panama Hotel, Panama City, Panama (1946)
Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas (1948)
United States Embassy, New Delhi, India (1954)
Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon (1954, changed in 1997)
Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, California (1955)
Bruno & Josephine Graf Residence, Dallas, Texas (1956)
Main Library and Mitchell Park Branch Library, Palo Alto, California (1956) The Mitchell Park Branch was torn down (demolished) in 2010.
Edward Durell Stone Townhouse, 130 East 64th Street, New York City (1956)
Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California (1956, partially demolished)
U.S. Pavilion at the Expo 58, Brussels, Belgium (1957, partially demolished)
First Unitarian Society Church, Schenectady, New York (1958)
Gallery of Modern Art, including the Huntington Hartford Collection (now known as Museum of Arts & Design), New York City (1958. The building was changed a lot in 2006)
International Trade Mart (now known as World Trade Center of New Orleans), New Orleans, Louisiana (1959)
Robert M. Hughes Memorial Library, Norfolk, Virginia (1959)
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California (1959)
North Carolina State Legislative Building, Raleigh, North Carolina (1960)
Beckman Auditorium, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (1960)
National Geographic Society Building, Washington, D.C. (1961)
Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico (1961)
Windham College (now known as Landmark College), Putney, Vermont (1961)
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York (1962)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (1962)
Prince George's Center (now known as University Town Center), Hyattsville, Maryland (1962)
Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri (1962, demolished 2005)
WAPDA House {Water and Power Development Authority}, Lahore, Pakistan (1962)
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island, Nebraska (1963)
Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California (1963)
Davenport Public Library, Davenport, Iowa(1964)
General Motors Building, New York City (1964)
Von KleinSmid Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (c. 1965)
Garden State Arts Center (now known as PNC Bank Arts Center), Holmdel, New Jersey (1965)
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, (1965)
Georgetown University Law Center Bernard P. McDonough Hall, Washington, D.C. (1966)
W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (1966)
Fort Worth City Hall, Fort Worth, Texas (1967)
PepsiCo World Headquarters Complex, Purchase, New York (1967)
Jefferson County Civic Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas (1968)
Worcester Science Museum (now known as the EcoTarium), Worcester, Massachusetts, (1964, changed in 1998)
Standard Oil Building (now known as Aon Center), Chicago, Illinois (1972)
Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, California (1974)
First Bank Building (now known as First Canadian Place), Toronto, Ontario (1975)
Babin Kuk Resort, Dubrovnik, Croatia (1976)
Valamar Dubrovnik President Hotel, Dubrovnik, Croatia (by Edward Durell Stone Associates, 1976)
Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida (1977)
University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1977)
Museum of Anthropology, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (by Edward Durell Stone Associates, 1986)

Gallery

Stanford U. Medical Center
Palo Alto, California
(1955)
Atrium
Stuart Pharmaceutical Co.
Pasadena, California
(1956)
Edward Durell Stone Townhouse
New York City
(1956)
Beckman Auditorium
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
(1960)
General Motors Building
New York City
(1964}
Ponce Museum of Art
Ponce, Puerto Rico
(1961)
National Geographic Museum
Washington, D.C.
(1961)
Metro One Building
University Town Center
Hyattsville, Maryland
(1962)
Aon Center
Chicago, Illinois
(1972)

Awards and recognitions

Honorary degrees

Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Arkansas, 1951
Doctor of Fine Arts, Colby College, 1959
Master of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, 1961
Doctor of Fine Arts, Hamilton College, 1962
Doctor of Humane Letters, University of South Carolina, 1964

Memberships and honors

Medal of Honor, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1955
American Institute of Architects, Fellow, 1958
National Institute of Arts & Letters, Member, 1958
National Urban League, Trustee, 1958
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow, 1960
American Federation of Arts, Trustee, 1960
Royal Society of Arts, Fellow, 1960
National Institute of Social Sciences, Gold Medal, 1961
Building Stone Institute, Architect of the Year, 1964
Horatio Alger Award, 1971
Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana [Commander, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic], 1971

Architectural awards

Silver Medal, Architectural League of New York, 1937 - Guest House for Henry R. Luce, Mepkin Plantation, Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Silver Medal, Architectural League of New York, 1950 - A. Conger Goodyear Residence, Old Westbury, New York
Gold Medal, Architectural League of New York, 1950 - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York (Philip Goodwin, Associate)
Gold Medal, Architectural League of New York, 1950 - El Panama Hotel, Panama City, Panama
Honorable Mention, Architectural League of New York, 1952 - University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, 1952 - University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
First Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, 1958 - Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California
Award of Merit, American Institute of Architects, 1958 - U.S. Pavilion, Brussels, Belgium
First Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, 1961 - U.S. Embassy, New Delhi, India
Award of Merit, American Institute of Architects, 1963 - Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel, California
First Honor Award, American Institute of Architects and American Library Association, 1963 - University of South Carolina Undergraduate Library, Columbia, South Carolina
Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, 1967 - Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Bibliography

Everett, Derek R. "Modern Statehouses for Modern States: Edward Durell Stone's Capitol Architecture in North Carolina and Florida." Southern Historian, Vol. 28 (Spring 2007): pp. 74–91.
Head, Jeffrey. "Unearthing Stone." Metropolis magazine, Urban Journal, January 2008.
Hunting, Mary Anne. "Edward Durell Stone, Perception and Criticism." PhD diss., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2007.
Hunting, Mary Anne. "From Craft to Industry: Furniture Designed by Edward Durell Stone for Senator Fulbright." The Magazine Antiques, Vol. 165, No. 5 (May 2004): pp. 110–121.
Hunting, Mary Anne. "Living with Antiques: The Richard H. Mandel House in Bedford Hills, New York." The Magazine Antiques, Vol. 160, No. 1 (July 2001): pp. 72–83.
Ricciotti, Dominic. "Edward Durell Stone and the International Style in America: Houses of the 1930s." American Art Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1988): pp. 48–73.
Ricciotti, Dominic. “The 1939 Building of the Museum of Modern Art: The Goodwin-Stone Collaboration.” American Art Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 1985): pp. 51–76.
Stone, Edward Durell. Edward Durell Stone: Recent and Future Architecture. New York: Horizon Press, 1967.
Stone, Edward Durell. The Evolution of An Architect. New York: Horizon Press, 1962.
Williams, John G. The Curious and the Beautiful. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1984.

Images for kids

Richard H. Mandel house, Mt. Kisco, New York (1933)
U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India (1959)
2 Columbus Circle, New York City (1958), before the facade was altered and the interior renovated
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. (1962)
Busch Stadium (1966), the home of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team from 1966 to 2005 and the St. Louis Cardinals football team from 1966 to 1987
Radio City Music Hall, New York, New York (1932)
Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)
Anson Conger Goodyear House, Old Westbury, New York (1938)
Stanford U. Medical Center, Palo Alto, California (1955)
Stuart Pharmaceutical Co., Pasadena, California (1956)
Palo Alto Main Library, Palo Alto, California (1956)
United States Pavilion, Expo 1958, Brussels, Belgium (1957)
First Unitarian Society, Schenectady, New York (1958)
Main academic podium, University at Albany, Albany, New York (1962)
Davenport Public Library, Davenport, Iowa (1964)
Von KleinSmid Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (1964)
ITM Building, New Orleans, Louisiana (1967)
PepsiCo Headquarters, Purchase, New York (1967)
Aon Center, Chicago, Illinois (1972)
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1975)