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ALBERT LEWIS HASKINS, JR., FAIA
(1910-2002) Haskins was born in Reidsville NC. He took courses in Civil Engineering from UNC Chapel Hill 1927-1928 and received his architecture degree at Georgia Tech in 1931. He worked for Louis F. Voorhees in High Point, WC Olsen Consulting Engineers 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. They returned to Raleigh in 1945 whene ie briefly ran a solo firm. In 1946, he joined with Thomas Cooper and Dick Rice to form Cooper & Haskins and Rice. In 1954, Cooper retired and the firm became Haskins & Rice, a partnership that would last for decades. Al’s background in engineering and his knowledge of construction and building codes complemented Dick Rice’s love of design. It was a creative, productive partnership. 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 Schlegel, 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 was the precursor to the Raleigh Section of AIANC, of which he was President in 1961-62. From 1956 to 1958 he was an associate professor at 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 a principal at the firm. |
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1949 - Haskins designed a modernist residence for himself at 2331 Churchill Road, Raleigh. An addition was completed in 1964. Destroyed for a new house, bottom photo, in 1993.
1951 - The John and Lucy Milner House. 2325 Hathaway Road, Raleigh. Sold in 2011 to Stephen D. and Leah Friedman Feldman. |
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Other traditional houses designed by Haskins and 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). |
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