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In 1977 John M. Laping, a partner since 1969, became managing partner and the firm was renamed The
Kideney Smith Fitzgerald Laping Partnership. In 1989 the firm was incorporated as Kideney Associates/Laping Jaeger Architects PC, soon changed to Kideney Architects/Laping Jaeger Associates PC. Laping
198:. After eight years of independent practice, in 1950 he formed a new partnership, James William Kideney & Associates, with several staff. In 1958 this became Kideney, Smith & Fitzgerald to reflect the growing roles of partners George D. Smith Jr.
194:. In 1926 he opened his own office. In 1929 he formed the partnership of Harbach & Kideney with Paul Hyde Harbach, an architect in practice in Buffalo since 1923. They worked together until they dissolved their partnership in 1942 during
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AIA New York State, of which
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217:(AIA) in 1935 as a member of the Buffalo chapter. He was a founder of the New York State Association of Architects, the AIA's state-level chapter, and served as its first president from 1938 to 1942. In 1949 he was elected a
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from 1926 until his retirement in 1974. The firm he founded is still in business as
Kideney Architects PC. He is the namesake of the James William Kideney Gold Medal Award, the highest honor awarded by AIA New York State.
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