Waddy Butler Wood

Life

Waddy Butler Wood was born as the son of originating from Virginia Army Captain Charles Wood, after he had moved with his wife to the west. Shortly after his birth the family moved back to Virginia on the Family Good Spring Hill. Wood lived there until he went to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute to study.

1892 Wood began to work as an architect in Washington. His first projects was commissioned by the Metropolitan Railroad in order tram sheds East Capitol Streetcar Barn ( 1896). A year later he built the Georgetown Car Barn (also Union Station, 1897 ) for the Capital Traction Company. At the same time, he designed several houses for the settlement Kalorama Heights (now Adams Morgan ).

In 1902, Wood along with Edward Donn Jr. and William I. Deming an office (Wood, Donn and Deming ). They managed to get many more orders of government in the episode, which is why the office rose rapidly becoming one of the most successful capital. Their orders were soon also works throughout the country, such as the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, a few houses for senior military and Bachelor Apartment House next to the White House.

In 1906 the office was the first in Washington DC, which designed a high-rise building with the Union Trust Building. Among the best known works of the office, however, belongs to the 1907 -designed Masonic Temple, now the National Museum of Women in the Arts. When the office was disbanded in 1912, Wood founded his own office. His most important works include the Washington Department of the Interior and the National Commercial Bank ( Washington, DC)