Background
Waddy Butler Wood was born in 1869 in St. Louis, United States.
Waddy Butler Wood was born in 1869 in St. Louis, United States.
He studied architecture and engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, graduating at the age of nineteen.
In 1892 he moved to the city of Washington, opened an office for independent practice, and following a period of eight years (1902-10) in partnership with John M. Donn and William L. Deming, re-established his own office. Throughout his long career Mr. Wood designed varied types of buildings in the capital city, among the most important the home of the Chinese Embassy; Stock Exchange Building; Commercial Bank Building; Office building for the Southern Railroad Company, and two buildings in LaFayette Square for Brookings Institute. In addition he re-modelled the old State, War and Navy Building, as an Annex to the Navy Building and during the first World War planned temporary buildings for practically all branches of the U. S. Government, covering about fifty acres of floor space.
A member of the Washington, D. C. Chapter, A.I.A. after 1908, and raised to Institute Fellowship in 1916.