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George W. Cady

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George Waterman Cady
George W. Cady, circa 1896
Born(1825-08-27)August 27, 1825
Providence, Rhode Island
DiedAugust 6, 1906(1906-08-06) (aged 80)
Warwick, Rhode Island
NationalityUnited States
OccupationArchitect

George W. Cady (1825-1906) was an American architect from Providence, Rhode Island.

Life and career

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George Waterman Cady was born August 27, 1825 to Jonathan Cady and Eliza (Petty) Cady.[1] He was raised and educated in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and briefly pursued the medical profession before apprenticing himself to carpenter Alexander Williams of Providence around 1841. Following his apprenticeship he joined the firm of Tallman & Bucklin, architects and builders, and remained with Bucklin until 1860.[2][3][1] That year he purchased the shop of C. Young and established himself as a carpenter. Cady studied architecture in his own time and in 1869 handed the shop over to his brother, George Fletcher Cady, and established himself as a professional architect.[3] Cady was a prolific designer and was particularly noted for his commercial and institutional buildings. By the 1880s Cady was assisted in his office by draftsmen Henry J. Stapleton and George M. Cady, his son. In 1891 the two briefly left to form the firm of Cady & Stapleton, but after a year they returned to the elder Cady's office, and Cady formed the new partnership of George W. Cady & Company. Both Stapleton and the younger Cady left architecture later in the decade, and the elder returned to individual practice until his death in 1906, at which time his colleague Norman M. Isham noted that Cady had been the last architect in Rhode Island to be entirely self-educated in architecture.[3]

Personal life

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In 1846 Cady was married to Mary Anna Burr of Providence, and they had two sons and two daughters. Their youngest child, George Milton Cady, was associated with his father in business. Cady died August 9, 1906 at his summer home in the Longmeadow neighborhood of Warwick.[3][1]

In 1854 Cady joined the First Light Infantry Regiment, a component of the state militia, and was active in the organization until 1895. During the Civil War he was commissioned major of the 21st Regiment of the Rhode Island militia, which was not called into service. He designed the regiment's building, the Infantry Building, in 1879.[2] He was also member of the Providence Art Club and the American Institute of Architects, which he joined in 1876, becoming a Fellow in 1889.[4]

Cady was a second cousin of J. Cleaveland Cady (1837-1919), a noted nineteenth century architect practicing in New York City, and a third cousin of John Hutchins Cady (1881-1967), a Providence architect and historian, and Walter Guyton Cady (1874-1974), a physicist and electrical engineer. They were all descended from Nicholas Cady, a carpenter who immigrated to Massachusetts from England circa 1630.[1]

Legacy

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One

Allan Merrick Jeffers, later architect of the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, was educated in architecture in Cady's office.

Architectural works

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f A contributing property to the Downtown Providence Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
  2. ^ Later a garage, even later home to the Church of Our Saviour and the First Assembly Church of God.
  3. ^ A contributing property to the Parkis–Comstock Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and amended in 1988.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Orrin Peer Allen, Descendents of Nicholas Cady of Watertown, Mass., 1645-1910 (Palmer: Orrin Peer Allen, 1910)
  2. ^ a b Richard Herndon, "Cady, George Waterman" in Men of Progress: Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, ed. Alfred M. Williams and William F. Blanding (Boston: New England Magazine, 1896): 90.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Two Rhode Island Architects" in American Architect and Building News 91, no. 1621 (February 9, 1907): 67-72.
  4. ^ George W. Cady, AIA Historical Directory of American Architects.
  5. ^ a b c d William McKenzie Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources, ed. David Chase (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986)
  6. ^ a b John Hutchins Cady, The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence 1636-1950 (Providence: The Book Shop, 1957)
  7. ^ David Chase, Woonsocket, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-W-1 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1976)
  8. ^ Paul Campbell, John Glancy and George Pearson, Providence Police Department (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2014)
  9. ^ American Architect and Building News 7, no. 232 (June 5, 1880): 254.
  10. ^ Providence City Documents for the Year 1883 (Providence: City of Providence, 1884)
  11. ^ American Architect and Building News 20, no. 557 (August 28, 1886): xi.
  12. ^ Souvenir History of the New England Southern Conference 3, ed. Rennetts C. Miller (Nantasket: Rennetts C. Miller, 1897)
  13. ^ Scientific American Architects and Builders Monthly 3, no. 3 (March, 1887)
  14. ^ Building 8, no. 31 (March 31, 1888): 3.
  15. ^ Providence City Documents for the Year 1890 (Providence: City of Providence, 1890)
  16. ^ Engineering and Building Record 22, no. 6 (July 12, 1890): 96.
  17. ^ Providence City Documents for the Year 1891 (Providence: City of Providence, 1891)
  18. ^ Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Education (Providence: State of Rhode Island, 1894)
  19. ^ a b c d e Providence City Documents for the Year 1892 (Providence: City of Providence, 1892)
  20. ^ a b c d Providence City Documents for the Year 1894 (Providence: City of Providence, 1894)
  21. ^ American Architect and Building News 45, no. 977 (September 15, 1894): xv.
  22. ^ Library Journal 19, no. 9 (September, 1894): 314.
  23. ^ William McKenzie Woodward, Downtown Providence: Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-P-5 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1981)
  24. ^ a b Providence City Documents for the Year 1896 (Providence: City of Providence, 1897)
  25. ^ American Architect and Building News 52, no. 1066 (May 30, 1896): xiv-xvii.
  26. ^ Brickbuilder 6, no. 2 (February, 1897): 41.
  27. ^ Parkis–Comstock Historic District (Boundary Increase) NRHP Registration Form (1988)

James Fludder

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James Fludder
Born1847
Died1901
NationalityUnited States
OccupationArchitect

James Fludder (1847-1901) was an American architect from Newport, Rhode Island.[1]

Life and career

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Fludder was trained by Newport architect George C. Mason.[1] About 1871 he established his own practice in Newport.[2] Like Mason and other Newport architects, he made a specialty of cotteges for summer residents. In 1877 he joined the American Institute of Architects, the third Newport architect to do so. In 1889 he was elevated to Fellowship.[3] Fludder practiced in Newport until his death in 1901.

Before 1877 Fludder trained B. Hammett Seabury, later an architect of Springfield, Massachusetts.[4]

Architectural works

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e A contributing property to the Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
  2. ^ a b A contributing property to the Southern Thames Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
  3. ^ A contributing property to the Wickford Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

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  1. ^ a b c James L. Yarnall, Newport Through its Architecture (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2005)
  2. ^ a b "A Group of American Architects" in American Architect and Building News 15, no. 425 (February 16, 1884): 75.
  3. ^ James Fludder, AIA Historical Directory of American Architects.
  4. ^ "Directory of Architects" in American Art Annual, 1905-1906, vol. 5, ed. Florence N. Levy (New York: American Art Annual, 1905): 500.
  5. ^ a b c d Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic District (Additional Documentation and Boundary Decrease) NRHP Registration Form (2018)
  6. ^ a b Southern Thames Historic District NRHP Registration Form (2008)
  7. ^ Ellen Weiss, North Kingstown, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report W-NK-1 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1979)
  8. ^ a b John F. A. Herzan, The West Broadway Neighborhood, Newport, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report N-N-2 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1977)
  9. ^ John F. A. Herzan, The Southern Thames Street Neighborhood in Newport, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report N-N-3 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1980)
  10. ^ Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Newport, R. I. (Newport: City of Newport, 1896)
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