Category: historic preservation
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Triangle Modernist Houses Presents ModShop III
A Homes Tour + Shopping Day Trip to Charlotte April 12, 2011 (Durham, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), the award-winning nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting modernist residential design, has announced ModShop III, its third tour of modernist houses and shopping trip to Charlotte. The popular day trip will take place Saturday, May…
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TMH Founder George Smart To Join Modernism at Risk Panel
The event kicks off Historic Charlotte’s May Preservation Month celebration. April 11, 2011 (Charlotte, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), will join other modernist architecture experts when Historic Charlotte, Inc. presents its Modernism At Risk panel discussion on April 19, 2011, at the Wells Fargo Auditorium in Charlotte. The…
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Cameron Village Library To Host “Mayberry Modernism”
Triangle Modernist Houses’ George Smart will discuss NC’s modernist legacy. March 10, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — George Smart, founder and director of the award-winning non-profit Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), will present his signature talk “Mayberry Modernism: North Carolina’s Modernist Legacy” at the Cameron Village Library in Raleigh on Thursday, March 31, from 7-9 p.m.…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Makes Docomomo-US Newsletter
NC Advocacy organization is featured in national news brief February 22, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), the award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to archiving, preserving and promoting modernist residential design, is featured in the “Advocacy Spotlight” for the month of February in the Docomomo-US Newsletter. Docomomo is an acronym for the DOcumentation…
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Charlotte’s Oldest Mid-Century Modern House Faces Demolition
Bulldozers will come in June if it’s not sold. February 23, 2011 (CHARLOTTE, NC) – The Lassiter House, the oldest identified Modernist house in Charlotte, and one of the few designed by architect A.G. Odell still standing, will be torn down if not sold by June. The house’s only owners put their three-bedroom,…
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Triangle Architecture Fans Head “Downeast”
Spotlighting three Modernist houses in Rocky Mount and Greenville, NC. February 15, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) will host its first “Downeast Modernist Tour” of three houses in Rocky Mount and Greenville, NC, on Saturday, March 12. The tour is open to the public with advance reservations through the TMH website.…
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TMH Honors North Carolina’s Pioneering Black Architects
The new online archive celebrates early Carolina pioneers February 4, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – To honor Black History Month, Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH) has launched a new online archive entitled “Pioneering Black Architects in North Carolina.” The series is a sequel to last year’s popular “Pioneering Women in North Carolina Architecture.” This series…
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Guest Feature: “The Bridge Across The Rio Grande”
By Frank Harmon, FAIA February 2011 (with sketches by Frank Harmon) The bridge across the Rio Grande between Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, is only a few hundred feet long, but the apparent distance between the two cities is far greater. Like many American cities, Laredo is laid out in broad blocks…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Launches Second Frank Lloyd Wright Tour
Architecture fans’ weekend trip includes Wrights’ Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob January 25, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Responding to demand to repeat last year’s Frank Lloyd Wright / Fallingwater Architecture Tour, Triangle Modernist Houses and director George Smart have offered another weekend excursion for architecture enthusiasts: a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-famous Pennsylvania houses on…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Announces 2nd Appetite 4 Architecture Dinner Series
Informal dinners connect noted local Modernist house architects with the public. December 13, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) — Dreaming of a new Modernist house? Long admired the work of a local architect or designer? Thinking about architecture as a career? Triangle Modernist Houses offers the general public the opportunity to enjoy dinners with prominent members of the…
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