Founded in 1977, CDH Partners, was incorporated in January 1993. The three founding partners; William Chegwidden, Don Dorsey, and Charles Holmes later naming the following additional Principals: Jeff Fincher, Tom Smith, David Strickland, Edward Wilkins and Bill Craig.

Since its beginning, CDH has remained committed to a single core value: to listen to its clients as they express their practical needs, dreams, and future goals and then provide the physical facilities required to meet these objectives. It also is the reason CDH Partners has been acknowledged by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as being one of Georgia’s largest and most progressive architectural firms.