Triangle Modernist Houses

Compiled by George Smart, Jr.                                                          

THE THANK YOU LIST

Thanks to Sally Greene and her excellent blog on local modernist houses.  She was very kind to meet several times and continues to champion preservation in Chapel Hill.

 

Thanks to Dennis Northcott for access to the James Fitzgibbon Archive at the Missouri Historical Society.
 

Thanks to Macon Smith,  FAIA, and his wife Jeannette for sharing their  exceptional memory of local architecture over the last 60 years.

 

 

 

Thanks to Charlotte Davis for information on her father, Archie Royal Davis.

Thanks to Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication at NCSU Libraries, and his team for helping find hard-to-find photos.
 

Thanks to David Crawford, Executive Director, and the staff of AIANC for access to their extensive archives.

 

 

Thanks to Catherine Bishir, FAIA, for her ongoing cheerleading and ideas on documentation.  She is the Curator for Architecture Special Collections at NCSU and senior architectural historian with Preservation North Carolina.

 

Thanks to Robert Anderson of Anderson Architecture PLLC and Mrs. Cleon Hayes for access to the Thomas Hayes files.

Thanks to Ken Friedlein of Dixon Weinstein.  Ken is a uniquely talented combination of journalist and architect who has written on the Catalano House, the Poland House, and many others.

Thanks to Carol Williams Bilbro, who lives in a Milton Small house, for supplying information on her dad Carter Williams.

 

Thanks to Dick Rice for getting up earlier than he likes and riding around central Raleigh identifying modernist houses, many of which his firm designed.

 

 

Thanks to David Potter for his frontline work identifying and photographing modernist houses.

Thanks to Troy Sherman for the Google Earth setup.

Thanks to Dorothy Candela for background and Jim and John Webb.

Thanks to Jinx Campbell for information on her husband William.