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Love). His siblings included: Trumbull Cary; Thomas Cary; Charles Cary, who in 1879 married Evelyn Rumsey; Jennie Cary, who married Laurence D. Rumsey; Walter Cary Jr.; and
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When the Exposition came to Buffalo, Cary became one of the three local architects on the Board of Architects for the Exposition and designed the Ethnology Building and the
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George Cary was born in 1859. He was one of seven children born to prominent Buffalo resident, Dr. Walter Cary (1818–1881) and Julia Cary (
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for the Pan-American Exposition. The pavilion was the only permanent building created for the Exposition and later became the
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George Cary, Jr. (1911–1971), who married in Marguerite Warren, a descendant of the Brevoort family, in 1934.
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In 1891, he returned to Buffalo and set up practice. In the mid-1890s, Cary redesigned some rooms in the
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In 1908, he married Allithea Birge, daughter of George K. Birge and Carrie Birge (Birge wallpaper and
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The Birge Memorial for George K. Birge, president of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company.
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In 1937, Cary donated what was then a 120 year old early American home to the city of
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Maria Love Cary (1915–2009), who married Howard Bissell, Jr. (b. 1913), the nephew of
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Interior of room in Wilcox House where Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of Presidency
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Charles Cary (1916–1985), who married Rhoda Gordon Coogan, the granddaughter of Dr.
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Allithea died in 1918 and he died in 1945, at eighty-six. Both are buried in
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Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
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Allithea M. B. Cary (1913–1993), who married Francis E. Largo (1915–1969).
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cars). Cary designed features on their home at 460 Franklin Street in the
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and Assemblyman. His maternal grand-uncle was Brig. General
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Robinson, Jean; Wheeler II, Charles B.; Bissell, Roger.
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Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company Administration Building
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
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Directly after that, he went to 218:Cary was the paternal grandson of 14: 1021: 990:Architects from Buffalo, New York 932: 557: 246:Cary attended and graduated from 948: 487: 475: 461: 422:American Institute of Architects 378: 270:from 1886 until 1889, the first 442: 252:Columbia School of Architecture 118: 677: 566:. Burchfield-Penney Art Center 418:Beaux-Arts Institute of Design 291:President of the United States 281:, which later became known as 1: 1010:People from Buffalo, New York 499: 420:, served as president of the 659:"George Cary in Buffalo, NY" 7: 685:"The House at 641 Delaware" 289:took the oath of office as 10: 1026: 823:Staff (January 19, 1936). 454: 416:Cary was a founder of the 310:Buffalo Historical Society 1000:Harvard University alumni 560:"George Cary (1859–1945)" 285:as it was the site where 233: 203:(1879–1922), who married 166: 152: 142: 138: 128: 101: 93: 74: 64: 45: 37: 25: 18: 351:Buffalo General Hospital 187:Early life and education 955:George Cary (architect) 832:Buffalo Courier Express 306:New York State pavilion 299:Pan-American Exposition 177:Pan-American Exposition 943:Buffalo History Museum 768:Staff (June 9, 2009). 469:Buffalo History Museum 410:Henry Fairfield Osborn 333:Buffalo History Museum 268:L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts 243: 224:New York State Senator 157:Buffalo History Museum 88:L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts 523:Staff (May 6, 1945). 391:. 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Buffalo
New York
American
Harvard College
Columbia University
L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts
McKim, Mead and White
Buffalo History Museum
Ethnology Building
Pan-American Exposition
Buffalo, New York
née
Seward Cary
Charles Cary Rumsey
Mary Harriman
E. H. Harriman
Mary Williamson
Trumbull Cary
New York State Senator
George Maltby Love

Harvard
Columbia School of Architecture
McKim, Mead and White
New York City
Paris
L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Buffalonian
Ansley Wilcox House

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