It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975 as the Lucinda Cady House.

Henry and Lucinda Cady moved to Takoma Park from Ashland, Virginia in 1886.

[2] He sold properties largely in Takoma Park and South Brookland from his office at 520-10th Street, N.W.

He had previously worked on the Washington Monument and designed the Admiral's House, now known as Number One Observatory Circle, the official residence of the Vice-President of the United States.

Together with other Episcopalians in the area they organized Takoma Parish, now Trinity Episcopal Church.

By this time the other large homes along Eastern Avenue were torn down and replaced by garden apartments.

[2] The Cady-Lee was designed in the Shingle Style that was popular on the east coast of the United States in the 1880s.

On the second story the dormer and the gable ends are covered in scalloped shaped shingles.

The foyer on the first floor leads to a library with carved bookcases and a front parlor with an original cheery wood mantel and over-mantel.

[5] A kitchen, with a cast-iron wood-burning stove, and a morning room, with a hand painted mural of an English garden, are in the back of the first floor.