Burnham opted to assemble an all-star team of architects. In close consultation with Olmsted, Burnham began approaching various candidates. Hunt, Olmsted’s Biltmore collaborator, was a natural choice. So was Charles McKim of the New York firm McKim, Mead, and White. McKim was the son of James McKim, leader of the friendly Nation faction, the one that had supported Olmsted’s catholic approach during the publication’s earliest days. Early in his career, the younger McKim had worked for H. H. Richardson. Other possibles included Boston’s Robert Peabody as well as Chicago’s own Louis Sullivan and
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