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- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Don Stewart becomes James Webb's partner in City Planning and Architecture Associates
Don Stewart, an Ohio native, worked for James Webb while studying planning at UNC. Once licensed in 1956 he became Webb's partner, and the practice was renamed City Planning and Architecture Associates; Stewart brought Frank Lloyd Wright's organic ideas to its Chapel Hill houses.
People: Don Stewart · James M. Webb
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Don Stewart designs the Kai Jurgenson House on Whitehead Circle
Stewart's 1956 house for Kai Jurgenson at 410 Whitehead Circle, one of his early works, blends Bay area regional modernism with the restrained domestic style of Walter Gropius's Harvard circle. The book notes that it won an award.
People: Don Stewart
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Dr. John T. Sessions and his wife build a Webb and Stewart house on Morgan Creek Road
A split-level modern house designed by James Webb and Don Stewart was built for Dr. John T. Sessions and his wife in Morgan Creek Hills. It was on the School Art Guild tour of homes in the fall of 1958.
People: Don Stewart · James M. Webb
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Engineer Bob Anderson joins City Planning and Architecture Associates
Engineer Bob Anderson joined the Webb and Stewart firm in 1958 and later became Stewart's partner.
People: Don Stewart · James M. Webb
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The Donald Stewart House is built on Severin Street
A 1958 house at 408 Severin Street in Chapel Hill, known as the Donald Stewart House, is listed among Don Stewart's works. It was sold in 1970.
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Don Stewart designs a Japanese-influenced house for Robert and Ruth Mace
Around 1960 Stewart's work turned toward Asian models, as in the one-level house he drew for physicist Robert Mace and his wife Ruth at 222 Hillcrest Circle, off East Franklin Street. Its wide roof overhang and the screen beside the entrance have a Japanese cast, and a tall porch shades the south side.
People: Don Stewart
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Don Stewart designs the Bowers-Nelson House in Morgan Creek Hills
Built about 1960 at 903 Coker Drive, this small house on a sloping lot is Stewart's most direct borrowing from Japanese houses. Its post-and-beam frame is exposed outside and was first painted in bright colors, and paper shoji screens slide on tracks to divide the rooms.
People: Don Stewart
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Don Stewart's Carmichael Auditorium is completed as the state's largest single-span building
Stewart designed Carmichael Auditorium, finished in 1965, with a roof carried on steel beams held by steel tie rods anchored in the ground. The book says it was the largest single-span building in North Carolina when it was built.
People: Don Stewart
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Stewart and Anderson build a new office on Estes Drive as Webb stays in the old Methodist church
In the mid-1960s Don Stewart and Bob Anderson bought a lot on Estes Drive and built a new office for the firm, while James Webb returned to the old Methodist church on Rosemary Street, the firm's former office, where he worked until he retired.
People: Don Stewart · James M. Webb
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Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Public Library building on East Franklin Street
Around 1965 library committee head Mrs. Richmond P. Bond asked Stewart about a traditional design; he said he was not a traditional architect and suggested Durham's William Van Sprinkle, but the committee kept Stewart and his modern plan. The 1966 building uses sloping native stone walls and stained wood to fit among the older faculty houses on East Franklin Street.
People: Don Stewart
Subject: Chapel Hill Public Library
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Don Stewart designs a house on stilts over Booker Creek for his partner Bob Anderson
Stewart's 1968 house for Bob Anderson at 601 Brookview Drive in Lake Shore Hills sets a steep-gabled living pavilion on stilts over rocky Booker Creek, linked by a raised kitchen bridge to a bedroom wing on the hillside above.
People: Don Stewart
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Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Professional Village
Stewart's 1968 office complex of one and two stories rests on heavy stone supports, with covered parking and planting built into the design and a bridge through its middle that echoes Frank Lloyd Wright.
People: Don Stewart
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Jim Webb leaves City Planning and Architectural Associates and practices on his own
Webb withdrew from the partnership he had formed with Don Stewart and re-established his practice as James M. Webb, AIA and AICP. He kept his office in the old Methodist church on Rosemary Street for the rest of his career.
People: Don Stewart
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Don Stewart designs the State Employees Credit Union office on Pittsboro Street
Stewart's 1971 credit union building on Pittsboro Street uses stone walls and roof planes that seem to float above them, a mild form of modernism.
People: Don Stewart
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