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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
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]
^George W. Cady, AIA Historical Directory of American Architects.
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abcdWilliam McKenzie Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources, ed. David Chase (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986)
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abJohn Hutchins Cady, The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence 1636-1950 (Providence: The Book Shop, 1957)
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.
^Ellen Weiss, North Kingstown, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report W-NK-1 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1979)
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abJohn F. A. Herzan, The West Broadway Neighborhood, Newport, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report N-N-2 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1977)
^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)