Triangle Modernist Houses

Compiled by George Smart, Jr.                                                          

Local Modernist Resources

Realtors Debra Smith, Peter Rumsey, and Derek Mangum "get it" about modernist houses.  Unlike many of their fellow realtors who treat modernism with only thinly veiled contempt,  these three professionals are passionate fans and strive to steer new owners towards preservation or re-creation rather than destruction. 

 

David Brook's excellent dissertation discusses founding Dean of the NCSU School of Design, Henry Kamphoefner.  (pdf file)

 

2006 - Architectural historian M. Ruth Little's The Development of Modernism in Raleigh 1945-1965, prepared for the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission.  The report contains extensive lists of modernist houses by architect, including biographies.  (pdf file)

This led to nominations for the National Register in Wake County and elsewhere.
 

 

1998 - Guide Map to 20th Century Architecture in Raleigh, developed by architect Russ Stephenson, the Raleigh Arts Commission, and the AIANC Raleigh Section.  Page 12.  Warning:  large files.