• Cady's Career
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J. Cleveland Cady (1837-1919), a prominent architect in late 19th /early 20th century America, bequeathed his library to Trinity College in 1918.  Encompassing approximately 400 volumes and 2000 photographs, the collection is significant as an intact working architectural library of the late 19th century. 

Strengths include surveys of styles and historic periods, books on building types, decoration and ornament, sketch-books and construction manuals.  Some highlights are Charles Garnier’s richly illustrated Le nouvel Opéra de Paris (1878-1881), Bertotti Scamozzi’s  Les bâtimens et les desseins de André Palladio. 2nd ed. (1786), and Viollet-le-Duc’s seminal work on history, theory and structure Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1858-1858).

The collection contains many examples of the architectural survey including Letarouilly’s Édifices de Rome moderne (1849) described in Avery’s choice as “one of the most widely consulted plate books of the 19th century” and Revoil’s Architecture romane du Midi de la France (1873), which significantly influenced H.H. Richardson and his followers.

Late 19th century photographic surveys are represented by German imprints such as Otto Schmidt’s Intérieurs von Kirchen und Kapellen in Österreich (1895),  Max Junghändel’s Die Baukunst Spaniens (c.1880), Alexander Schütz’s Die Renaissance in Italien (1882) and photographs by Heinrich Strack of the Roman buildings surveyed by Letarouilly.

“Salzburg, Nonnberg” from

Intérieurs von Kirchen und Kapellen in Österreich

by Otto Schmidt, 1895.

“Grand escalier d’honneur” from

Le nouvel Opéra de Paris by Charles Garnier,

1878-1881.

“Maison de plaisance près de la ville, la Rotunda” from Les bâtimens et les desseins de André Palladio by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1786.

 “L’église de St. Jean de Moustier d’Arles” from Architecture romane du Midi de la France by

Henry Antoine Revoil, 1873.