Waddy Butler Wood

Waddy Butler Wood (* 1869 in St. Louis , Missouri ; † January 25, 1944 near Warrenton , Virginia ) was an American architect .

Life

Waddy Butler Wood was born to Virginia Army Captain Charles Wood after he moved west with his wife. Shortly after his birth, the family moved back to Virginia to the Spring Hill family estate . Wood lived there until he went to college at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute .

In 1892 Wood began working as an architect in Washington . His first project was the East Capitol Streetcar Barn (1896) commissioned by the Metropolitan Railroad . A year later he built the Georgetown Car Barn (also Union Station, 1897) for the Capital Traction Company. At the same time he designed some residential buildings for the Kalorama Heights settlement (now Adams Morgan).

In 1902, Wood founded an office (Wood, Donn and Deming) with Edward Donn Jr. and William I. Deming . As a result, they succeeded in winning numerous major government contracts, which is why the office quickly became one of the most successful in the capital. Her assignments soon included work across the country, such as the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, some residential buildings for senior military officials and the Bachelor Apartment House next to the White House .

In 1906, the office was the first in Washington DC to design a high-rise, the Union Trust Building . One of the most famous works by the office is the Masonic Temple, designed in 1907 and now the National Museum of Women in Arts . When the office was closed in 1912, Wood set up his own office. His major jobs include the Washington Department of the Interior and the Commercial National Bank (Washington, DC)

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SURNAME	Wood, Waddy Butler
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wood, Waddy B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	american architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1944
Place of death	Warrenton , Virginia