HENRY DOLE NORRIS, AIA (1913-1992)

Henry Dole Norris was born in Brookline MA. He attended the University of Miami and worked for a architectural firm in Miami Beach.  He met his wife Anna after WWII on a blind date then took jobs as a production illustrator in an airplane company in Homestead FL and what is now Bell Aircraft in Marietta where he worked 70 hours a week.  He opened a private practice as Henry D. Norris, AIA.  Later in the  1970's he started Heritage Homes Plan Service to sell his home plans.  The Historical Society of Atlanta has his working drawings.

Here is Norris' grandson, Allen Josey, in one of his most prized pieces of furniture, a Knoll chair and ottoman.

1975 - 2017 South Lakeshore Drive, Chapel Hill.  Built by Chapel Hill's JP Goforth from a plan book designed by Norris.  Current owners Joel and Myrna Schwartz.