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

Life and career
George Waterman Cady was born August 27, 1825 to Jonathan Cady and Eliza (Petty) Cady. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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

Architectural works

 * House for David A. Cleveland, 111 Park St, Providence, Rhode Island (1867, demolished)
 * Fletcher Building, Westminster and Eddy Sts, Providence, Rhode Island (1868, demolished)
 * Burgess Building, 232 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island (1870)
 * Central Fire Station, 25 Kennedy Plz, Providence, Rhode Island (1873, demolished)
 * Woonsocket Armory, 122 Arnold St, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1873, demolished)
 * 2nd Precinct Police Station, 12 Ashburton St, Providence, Rhode Island (1876, demolished)
 * Dorrance Building, 180 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island (1876 and 1891)
 * Hall's Building, 49 Weybosset St, Providence, Rhode Island (1876)
 * High Street Bank Building, 846 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island (1877, demolished)
 * Low's Opera House, 260 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island (1878, demolished)
 * Infantry Building, S Main St, Providence, Rhode Island (1879, demolished 1952)
 * House for David C. Moulton, 327 Elmwood Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1880, demolished)
 * Berlin Street Primary School, Berlin St and Chalkstone Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1882, demolished)
 * Asbury Memorial M. E. Church, N Main and Hewes St, Providence, Rhode Island (1886-88, demolished)
 * House for Frederick Webb, 3352 E Main Rd, Portsmouth, Rhode Island (1887, demolished 2012)
 * Aldrich Block, 47 Washington St, Providence, Rhode Island (1888, demolished)
 * Slater Avenue Primary School, 220 University Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1889-90, demolished)
 * William J. Braitsch and Company Plant, 472 Potter Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1890, NRHP 2016)
 * Highland Avenue Primary School, Highland Ave and 7th St, Providence, Rhode Island (1890, demolished)
 * A. P. Hoyt Grammar School, Freeborn and Lyon Aves, East Providence, Rhode Island (1890-91, demolished)
 * Almy Street Primary School, 20 Almy St, Providence, Rhode Island (1891)
 * Eddy Street Primary School, 883 Eddy St, Providence, Rhode Island (1891)
 * Gaspee Building, 204 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island (1891)
 * Harris Avenue Primary School, 537 Harris Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1891)
 * Niagara Street Primary School, 100 Niagara St, Providence, Rhode Island (1891)
 * Sisson Street Primary School, Sisson St and Manton Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1891)
 * California Avenue Primary School, California Ave near Virginia Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1893, demolished)
 * Carpenter Street Primary School, Carpenter and Pallas Sts, Providence, Rhode Island (1893, demolished)
 * State Street Primary School, 67 State St, Providence, Rhode Island (1893, demolished)
 * Willard Avenue Primary School, Willard Ave and Staniford St, Providence, Rhode Island (1893, demolished)
 * Primitive Methodist Church (former), 530 Smith St, Providence, Rhode Island (1894)
 * Riverside Free Library, Monroe and Lincoln Aves, Riverside, Rhode Island (1894, demolished)
 * Studley Building, 86 Weybosset St, Providence, Rhode Island (1894)
 * Federal Street Primary School, 97 Federal St, Providence, Rhode Island (1895, demolished)
 * Roger Williams Avenue Primary School, 860 Elmwood Ave, Providence, Rhode Island (1895, demolished)
 * Horton, Angell & Company Plant, 129 Bank St, Providence, Rhode Island (1896)
 * Newman Hotel, 28 Aborn St, Providence, Rhode Island (1897, burned 1920)
 * House for Robert E. Smith, 576 Broad St, Providence, Rhode Island (1898)
 * Mercantile Block, 131 Washington St, Providence, Rhode Island (1901)
 * Commercial Block, 55 Eddy St, Providence, Rhode Island (1906-08)
 * Ashley Building, 48 Weybosset St, Providence, Rhode Island (probably mid-1880s, demolished)

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

Life and career
Fludder was trained by Newport architect George C. Mason. About 1871 he established his own practice in Newport. 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. Fludder practiced in Newport until his death in 1901.

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

Architectural works

 * Cottage, 61 Kay St, Newport, Rhode Island (1871-72)
 * Troy Building, Pleasant St, Fall River, Massachusetts (1873, demolished)
 * "Cave Cliff" for George H. Pendleton, 99 Leroy Ave, Newport, Rhode Island (1877)
 * Fire Station No. 2, 10 Young St, Newport, Rhode Island (1877)
 * House for Peleg W. Wightman, 25 Pleasant St, Wickford, Rhode Island (1880)
 * Cottage for William A. Barber, 14 Ayrault St, Newport, Rhode Island (1882)
 * Cottage for John N. A. Griswold, 29 Champlin St, Newport, Rhode Island (1882)
 * Cottages for John N. A. Griswold, 131 and 135 Eustis Ave, Newport, Rhode Island (1883)
 * First Baptist Church parsonage, 30 Spring St, Newport, Rhode Island (1885)
 * Lenthal School (former), 426 Spring St, Newport, Rhode Island (1886-87)
 * Lynch Block, 491 Thames St, Newport, Rhode Island (1886)
 * Libby Block, 11 Broadway, Newport, Rhode Island (1893)
 * Townsend Industrial School (former), Newport, Rhode Island (1893-94)
 * Carey School (former), 32 Carey St, Newport, Rhode Island (1896)