Cady's Career

For most of his career Cady was in partnership with Louis de Coppet Berg, a civil engineer, and Milton See in the firm Cady, Berg & See.  Their most important commissions were the original Metropolitan Opera House (1881-1883; demolished in 1966) on Broadway and 39th St., New York City, and the W. 77th St. façade of the American Museum of Natural History (1888-1899). 

Other public projects include Cady’s first big commission, the Brooklyn Art Association (1869-1872), and the original Peabody Museum of Natural History (1873-1876) in New Haven. 

The firm designed numerous academic buildings, including 15 at Yale, 3 at Wesleyan University, 2 at Williams College and a church for the Hampton Institute in Virginia.  Cady also designed Trinity College’s  Jarvis Hall (demolished in the 1960’s) and Saint Anthony Hall (1877) for the Delta Psi fraternity.  He considered some of his finest buildings to be among the 25 Protestant churches designed by the firm.