Midcentury Modern

Farmers Exchange - Poultry Plant

1956 (From "This is Central Carolina Farmers Exchange") " A Poultry Plant to process and market large amounts of poultry was one of the first operations started by the Exchange to give local farmers a source of income other than tobacco. When the Department began operating in 1931, there was very little poultry being grown in this section - not...

2531 Sevier St.

2013 (From MLS) Per Triangle Modernist Houses: Sold to George D. and Susan Beischer. Sold in 1983 to John and Lynne Geweke. Sold to William H. and Lisa D. Schlesinger in 1990. Sold to Molly Jennifer Tamarkin and Sean Andrew McKnight in 2001. Sold to Laura Beth Harris and Frederick Charles Moten in 2008. 2013 (From MLS) 2013 (From MLS) 2013 (From...

George Poland House

Designed by George Matsumoto and built in 1954, the George Poland house was originally located at 3129 Arrow Drive in Raleigh. After Poland's death in 2001, Poland's family donated the house to Preservation North Carolina. PNC put it on the market and imposed a buyer requirement to move the house to a suitable lot. In 2002, Don DeFeo moved the...

New Morehead School / Morehead Montessori

Under construction, 11.04.57 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Built in 1957, the Morehead School between Cobb, Arnette, Shepherd, and Lakewood replaced the earlier Morehead School on Jackson Street - site of the first purpose-built city graded school. The former school was demolished in the 1960s as part of urban renewal. Under construction, 11...

706 East Main St. - Parker's Restaurant

1980 (Duke Chanticleer) A longtime favorite, particularly with Duke students, Parker's seems to have closed sometime in the 1990s, but I'm unsure when. As of 2008-2011, the building houses JC's kitchen, where "the food is anointed, and you won't be disappointed." (Yes, that JC.) 06.25.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber) 06.25.13. One of the better signs in...