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 Even before laws were made concerning handicapped facilities in the states, Haskins was a strong proponent of designing accessible buildings. According to his daughter, Betty Anne Schnegel, Haskins said that when he and wife Anne moved to Raleigh in 1945, there were about five architects in practice. He got them together for lunch at the S&W Cafeteria, an event which resulted in the precursor to the Raleigh Section of AIANC, of which he was President in 1961-62. |
ALBERT LEWIS HASKINS, JR., FAIA
(1910-2002) Haskins was born in Reidsville NC. He took courses in Civil Engineering from UNC Chapel Hill in 1927-1928 and received his architecture degree at Georgia Tech in 1931. He worked for Louis F. Voorhees in High Point, W.C. Olsen Consulting Engineer in Raleigh, William Henley Deitrick in Raleigh, Linthicum & Linthicum Architects in Raleigh, and Allen J. Maxwell of Goldsboro. From 1937-41, he worked in Richmond for Portland Cement Association and for Baskerville and Son Architects. In 1941, he moved to Newport News to manage the office of Williams, Coile, & Pipino Architects and Engineers. He married Raleigh native, Anne Simms, that year, and they returned to Raleigh in 1945 after the war ended and started a solo firm. In 1946, he joined with Thomas Cooper and Dick Rice to form Cooper & Haskins and Rice which lasted until 1954 when Cooper retired. The firm became Haskins & Rice, a partnership that would last for decades. Al Haskins' background in engineering, contracts knowledge of construction and materials, and building codes complemented Dick Rice’s love of design. From 1956 to 1958 he was also an associate professor in the NCSU School of Design. In the 1980's the firm became Haskins Rice Savage and Pearce. Now, it is Pearce, Brinkley, Cease & Lee PA. His daughter Kathleen is currently a principal at the firm. |
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1951 - The John and Lucy Milner House. 2325 Hathaway Road, Raleigh. Milner still lives there. Richard Rice says he primarily did the design work on this house. |
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1952 - The Martin and Catherine Green Residence, 1724 Picadilly Lane, Raleigh. After Catherine remarried, she sold it to her son, Martin Jr., who still lives there. |
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Other traditional houses designed by Haskins &
Rice in Raleigh include: Dr. & Mrs. D. B. Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. L. Y. Ballentine, Mr. & Mrs. Pembroke Baker, Mr. & Mrs. B. O. Betts, Mr. & Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Bryan, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Cummings, Mr. & Mrs. James A. Davidson, Mr. & Mrs. Grover Dillon, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. G. L. Firth, Mr. & Mrs. Fred M. Haig, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hanley (off Fairview Road), Colonel & Mrs. John W. Harrelson, Mr. & Mrs. Rochelle Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. Earl T. Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Levine, Dr. & Mrs. L. Carl Liles, Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Mangum, Mr. & Mrs. M. G. Mann, Mr. & Mrs. George Y. Ragsdale, Dr. & Mrs. L. Gordon Sinclair, Dr. & Mrs. W. T. Ward, Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Weatherspoon, Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Winston, Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Winston, Mr. & Mrs. Marion Wyatt, Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Wyatt, Ms. Julia Coke (St. Mary's Street and Fairview area) Other modernist houses include Mr. & Mrs. Dillon Kalkhurst. |
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Triangle
Modernist Houses
1949
- Haskins
designed a modernist residence
for himself at
