Triangle Modernist Houses

Compiled by George Smart, Jr.                                                          

WILLIAM C. CORRELL, AIA (1920-2001)

Bill Correll was irreversibly inspired by a meeting with Frank Lloyd Wright.  It was an event that changed his life and shaped his design philosophy during the first part of his career.   

Correll graduated from NCSU with a BS in Architectural Engineering in 1941.  He entered the military in WWII and retired from the reserves in 1972 as a Lt. Colonel.  He taught at the School of design for two years.  From 1947 through 1957, he worked with Jesse M. Page, Page and Smith and Hayes, and Seay, Mattern and Mattern.  After leaving private practice, he was Chief Architect for the State of North Carolina's Division of Property Control from 1957 to 1982.  After retiring from the state, he started the Roofing Consulting Institute and became its longtime Executive Director.

1962 - The William and Dorothy Correll Residence, 3209 Oak Grove Circle, Raleigh.  Correll won an AIANC award for this house in 1964.  Still owned by the Correll family, who supplied these photos.

1949 - Brick manufacturer Lewis Isenhour (died 1970) hired Correll and Jesse Page to design quite a large Usonian brick residence at 300 Carbonton Road, Sanford.  Currently owned by Isenhour's grandson, Mark Davenport.