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ROBERT WINSTON (JUDGE) CARR, AIA
(1921-)

Robert Winston Carr, left, attended UNC Chapel Hill in 1940 and an earned an architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943. He spent three years in the Navy during World War II, including Naval Architecture training at the University of Michigan, then entered the firm of his dad, George Watts Carr (below left). 

The elder Carr developed a large tract near Forest Hills Park that became Beverly Drive.  He named it after his family's home in Beverly MD, an area now absorbed by Baltimore.  Along Beverly Drive, Robert Carr designed a large number of modernist homes, including his current house, below.  

In 1962, the firm became Carr, Harrison, Pruden & DePasquale. Their office was famously in the penthouse of the Central Carolina Bank building (now SunTrust), the tallest in downtown Durham for many years. 

In 1977 Frank DePasquale left.  In 1981, the firm was renamed Robert Winston Carr, Inc. Associated Architects with projects including the North Carolina School for Science and Math, the North Carolina Maritime Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the Duke Art Museum.

Carr is semi-retired.  His son Edgar Carr continues the practice, still located downtown (Central Carolina Bank has since changed hands to SunTrust).

1949 - The John L. Moorhead House, 3311 Avon Road, Durham. Sold in 2006 to current owner Carolyn Lontz.  Destroyed 2009.  As of 2010, lot was vacant.

1950 - The Robert Carr House I, 405 Carolina Circle, Durham. Sold to J. Harper Erwin and Lula Erwin in 1962.  Sold to James and Lola R. Williams in 1962.  Sold to Lola R. Williams in 1990. Sold in 2004 to current owners John and James Williams.  Currently a rental house.  Photo by George Smart.

1950 - The Everett I. Bugg, Jr. Residence, 1544 Hermitage Court, Durham.  This originally red brick split-level has been painted white.  Sold about 1959 to current owners David and Marjorie Miller.

1952 - The Robert Carr House II, 73 Beverly Drive, Durham.  Carr designed this house and lives here still.  Photo by George Smart.

1955 - The Dillard Teer House, 43 Beverly Drive, Durham.  Built by George W. Birmingham, Sr., who worked for Teer's construction company.  The house is 7,000+ square feet and sits on 1.15 acres with 3 floors, 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths, pool, finished basement, three car carport, and a large circular driveway.  Sold in 2007 to current owners Gow Arepally and Raj Morey who are planning a tasteful renovation.

1955 - The Dr. Goldner House, 602 East Forest Hills Boulevard, Durham.  In the center of the first floor is an entrance and a continuous wall of windows.  Features a cantilevered terrace.  Sold by Dr. Goldner's widow to current owners Julie and Joseph Maxwell in 2007.

1958 - The Miriam and Henry Nicholson House, 3429 Rugby Road, Durham.  3.7 acres.  Henry Nicholson’s grandmother's grandfather was Washington Duke.  Many of the furnishings came from the Stagg/Nicholson family house Greystone where Henry Nicholson grew up in Durham.  Carr was a friend of the family and they chose him as architect for their new home.  According to Miriam Nicholson, the sunroom was added on to the design because she and her husband saw something similar in Architectural Digest on a California home.  The original landscape design was done by a professor at the NCSU School of Design.  Built by George Birmingham, Sr.   Sold in 1999 to Nicholson's son, William Henry Nicholson.  Renovated in 2002.  On the May 2008 TMH Tour.  Sold in 2009 to current owners David and Lesley McAdams who did another renovation, including a new master bedroom.  For sale in 2011. 

1963 - The Betty Price Gwyn House, 3126 Devon, Durham. 2098 sf.  Sold in 1987 to her son, Owen Gwyn, and his wife Roxanne.  Rented to architect George (Eddie) Belk in the 1980's.  Sold in 1992 to the next-door neighbors, Thomas and Brenda Kinney.  Rented to Carr's son, Edgar Carr, 1993-1995. The Kinneys destroyed the house in 2010, giving the building to Habitat for Humanity. Bottom six photos by Tad DeBerry.

1976 - Restoration of the Roscoe L. and Lucy Strickland, Jr. Residence, aka Pleasant Grove, aka Hardscrabble, 219 Hardscrabble Drive, Hillsborough NC.  Originally, this was the 1779 plantation of William Cain and his wife Mary Ruffin Cain, sister of NC Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin.  A separate house ten feet away was added around 1790.  During the 19th century, it had as many as 95 saves in a sizable plantation operation.  In the 1880's, the houses were joined together.  After many years of disrepair, top two photos, Strickland bought the house in the 1940's while a student at Duke and engaged architect Carr.  That restoration won an AIANC Merit Award in 1981.  Most of the surrounding land was sold to Southland Development Corporation, who subsequently sold the undeveloped property to Chatham Development Corporation in 1995.  The house is currently owned by Warren and Carol Strittmatter.