Georgian Revival

This men's dormitory constructed as part of the Public Works Administration building program in 1937 is identical in form to Shepard Hall except that it lacks the shallow end pavillions. Identifying details include a molded box cornice with modillions; the main entrance is distinguished by a frame surround with fluted pilasters, entablature, and flat denticulated cornice. Named in honor of the North Carolina governor instrumental in arranging state appropriations of $100,000 for new brick buildings.

The Annie Day Shepard Residence Hall was the new "Girls' Domitory" in 1930; designed by Atwood and Nash, it is similar to the Clyde R. Hoey Administration Building in its long rectangular three-story hip-roofed form with end pavillions and gabled entrance pavillion.

Built by the Public Works Adminstration on the site of the original Boys' dormitory in 1939.

Completed 1937 as part of the Public Works Administration building campaign. The focal point of the flat-roofed building with English bond brick elevations is the two-story frame portico supported by streamlined Corinthian columns that shelters the three identical entrances. The auditorium seats 900 and is named in honor of one of the school's major benefactors, whose contributions and bequest totalled approximately $125,000.

As part of the inclusion of North Carolina College into the UNC system, the General Assembly approved funds for new campus buildings; the original frame dining hall was replaced with a brick building in 1930. New Dining Hall, 1930 This one-story Georgian Revival style building with basement also was designed by Atwood &Nash and completed in 1930 as...

H. Raymond Weeks, partner in the prestigious Durham architectural firm of Atwood and Weeks designed the Georgian Revival style house for attorney Egbert Haywood and his wife Margaret around 1940. The rich ornamentation of the five-bay facade is concentrated in the entrance bay where paired pilasters rise a full two stories to a slgihtly projecting...

William S. Griswold House. 2-story side-gable brick Colonial Revival- style house with exterior end chimneys, a 1-bay entrance porch with triple colonettes and a pedimented roof, and 6-over-6 sash windows. The left 1-story wing is brick; the right one is weatherboarded. William S. Griswold, president of Griswold Insurance Agency, was the owner- occupant in 1935. [1935 CD]

One of the most finely detailed Georgian Revival style houses in the Duke Park neighborhood is this two story brick dwelling built for Laura Duke in 1926 when the style was at the height of its popularity. Characteristic Georgian Revival style features include the five bay, double pile center hall plan; the gable roof dormers with pilasters flanking the arched windows; the denticulated cornice; and the entrance flanked by Doric columns and pilasters. An uncommon feature of the brick veneered house is the gambrel roofline.

An intriguing inscription on the floor of a twentieth-century well house documents the history of a much-renovated frame I-house that was the antebellum home of William J. Duke, older brother of tobacco magnate, Washington Duke: Built in 1825 W. J. Duke Rebuilt in 1896 J. E. Lyon Rebuilt in 1936 Rosa A. Lyon Belvin The dwelling’s basic form is that...