CABOT, EVERETT & MEAD, architects of Boston, Massachusetts, designed 'Beinn Bhreagh', the sprawling Shingle Style mansion erected for Sir Alexander Graham Bell at Baddeck, N.S. in 1892. It was conceived 'in the general style of architecture after the French Chateau' and it required nearly a full year to complete the construction of the house (Halifax Chronicle, 21 November 1893; L. Maitland, Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture, 1990, 142, illus.; E. Pacey & A. Comiter, Landmarks: Historic Buildings of Nova Scotia, 1994, 182-3, illus.). The firm also designed the Sydney Hotel, SYDNEY, N.S., 1896; burned 1919, in collaboration with J.C. Dumaresq of Halifax (dwgs. at the Beaton Institute, Sydney, M.R. Chappell Coll., MG14, 69) Edward Clark Cabot (1818-1901) was the founding partner of the firm and is best known for his design of the Boston Athenaeum (1846-47), executed in collaboration with George M. Dexter, and for the design of the Boston Theatre (1852). In 1885 Cabot initiated the formation of a new partnership with Arthur Greene Everett (1855-1925) and Samuel W. Mead, both of whom had been employed by him as draftsmen in his office.
When he retired from active practice in 1888, Everett continued to handle many of the design responsibilities for the firm, and it is almost certain that the design of Beinn Bhreagh in Nova Scotia can be attributed to him since '...Mr. Everett has inspected the building at seven different stages of its construction, and on each occasion found everything up to the requirements of the contract'. Everett was born in Boston and was educated there at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served an apprenticeship with McKim, Mead & White of New York City, and after his return to Boston he joined with Edward Cabot to complete designs for the Boston Journal Building, the Washington Street Grammar School (1903) and several student residence buildings at Harvard University. He died in Boston on 5 October 1925 (biography in H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 102-03, 202; Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1982, i, 363-4)