Tag: home tour
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Save the Date: “Hillside House” will be open for public touring Saturday, November 13
On Saturday, November 13, NCModernist.org will present a public “Trickle Tour” of Hillside House at 130 Old Pittsboro Road, Carrboro. Specific time slots and ticket information will be announced later. NCModernist (aka NC Modernist Houses) hosts several tours of modern house each year. Executive director George Smart created the “Trickle Tour” format in response to…
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James Taylor’s Modernist Childhood Home in Chapel Hill Will Open for Second Public Tour
After the first tour sold out, NCMH has arranged a second opportunity for Taylor fans and Modernist design enthusiasts. By popular demand, North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) will host a second tour of singer-songwriter James Taylor’s classic mid-century Modern childhood home in Chapel Hill on Saturday, July 2, from 9 a.m. to noon. Tickets ($7…
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Two Net Zero Passive Houses Are State-Of-The-Art on the 2015 Green Home Tour
There’s “green,” and then there’s GREEN. When the Home Buyers Association of Durham, Orange, and Chatham counties presents its 10th annual Green Home Tour May 2-3 and 9-10, tour-goers will see several houses that are certified“green” because they use less energy, water and natural resources, create less waste, and are generally healthier environments than a traditionally designed and constructed house. Two…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Hosts Tour of 1959 Carter Williams House
“Blue Haven” will be open to the public for one day. July 6, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — The 1959 Carter Williams House Tour, designed by prolific Raleigh architect F. Carter Williams, FAIA, for his family, with landscape design by Dick Bell, FASLA, will be open for public touring on Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m.…
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Opens Door To Modernist Marvel
Never-before-seen Modernist House Open on Saturday, June 19. June 1, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) — On a serene, 20-acre swath of land between Garner and Apex, NC, overlooking a small lake, rests one of the most remarkable Modernist houses in the entire Triangle region, according to George Smart, founder and Executive Director of Triangle Modernist Houses…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Announces 2010 Modernist Home Tour
Event to feature nine modernist houses in Raleigh from the 1950s to today. May 24, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) — What’s Raleigh’s best-kept secret? The Triangle has the third largest concentration of Modernist houses in the country, behind LA and Chicago — literally hundreds of exceptional houses — due to the Modernist influence of the NCSU…