Cudworth & Woodworth

Edward Aldrich Cudworth was born December 11, 1861, in Boston. He attended Roxbury Latin School, before moving on to Harvard University, class of 1884. Originally going into sales, he switched to architecture. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years, and worked for H. H. Richardson and Cummings & Sears in Massachusetts and Clarence Sumner Luce in New York City. In 1887 he left Luce and went to Norwich, forming a partnership with James A. Hiscox. Neither understood the business fully, and Cudworth & Hiscox rarely made a profit in the two years it was in business. After 1889, he for several architects and engineers in Boston until 1895, when he went to work for Norwich architect Charles H. Preston. He remained with Preston until 1899, when he opened his own office. In 1901 Walter H. Woodworth joined the firm, and died in 1915.[1] Cudworth died in 1937, and was buried in Norwich.

Walter H. Woodworth was born on October 8, 1874, in Quaker Hill, Connecticut. He was trained in construction, and in 1901 became a construction superintendent for J. A. Hiscox, Cudworth's erstwhile partner. Only a few months later, he joined Cudworth as partner. A few years later he fell ill, and gradually retired from active practice. In 1915 A. M. Thompson was added as partner, and Woodworth died soon after, on June 1, 1915.[2]

Arthur M. Thompson became a partner in the firm in 1915, which became Cudworth, Woodworth & Thompson.[2] In 1916, it was renamed Cudworth & Thompson. Thompson operated the firm past Cudworth's 1937 death, into the 1940s.