Roberta C. Andrews

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. summer 1954 Franc Sidler meets Troy and Robin Andrews on their farm and sketches a house for it In the summer of 1954 the Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a guest of anthropologists renting a small house on the Andrews farm, met Troy and Robin Andrews there and drew a floor plan for a house they might build later. The sketch grew into the house finished on the farm in 1967. People: Roberta C. Andrews Place: Andrews farm (Bolin Brook Farm), Bolin Brook Farm Road, Calvander (Chapel Hill vicinity) · Also named: Franc Sidler, Troy M. AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
2. 1961 Troy and Robin Andrews return to the farm and enlarge the old Lloyd log house After Troy Andrews retired in 1961 and inherited the farm with his sister Nita, he and Robin moved back and renovated and enlarged the early nineteenth-century hewn log house built for the Lloyd family, living there while they planned their new house. People: Roberta C. Andrews Place: Lloyd log house, 501 Bolin Brook Farm Road, Calvander (Chapel Hill vicinity) · Also named: Troy M. Andrews, Nita AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
3. January 1963 Mrs. Troy Andrews asks the county commissioners to pave SR 1111 near Calvander Mrs. Troy Andrews brought the Orange County commissioners a petition from residents asking them to pave SR 1111, a two-mile road between Calvander and the Union Church road. The commissioners agreed to send the petition on to state highway officials. Place: Calvander · Also mentions: Union ChurchSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 9, 1963, p. 5
4. 1965 to 1967 Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm Working from plans by Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a former Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, builder Carl Ellington and the African American masons Willis, Alfred Sr. and Alfred Jr. Barbee raised the Andrews House from stone gathered on the farm, starting in 1965 and finishing in 1967. It is Sidler's only building in the United States and one of the few architect-designed Modernist houses in rural Orange County. People: Roberta C. Andrews, Alfred David Barbee Sr. Place: Troy and Roberta Andrews House, 600 Bolin Brook Farm Road, Calvander (Chapel Hill vicinity) · Also named: Troy M. Andrews, Franc Sidler, Carl Ellington, Willis Edward Barbee, Alfred David Barbee Jr.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
5. mid-1970s Robin Andrews chairs the Orange County Bicentennial Steering Committee Roberta (Robin) Andrews chaired Orange County's steering committee for the national Bicentennial. She also raised money to restore the Burwell School in Hillsborough. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Burwell SchoolSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026), section 8, p. 23
6. April 1986 The Emily Dickinson Centennial Conference holds sessions at Bolin Brook Farm Sessions of the Emily Dickinson Centennial Conference met at Bolin Brook Farm, the Andrews home near Calvander, in April 1986. The Andrewses often opened the property to meetings and house tours. People: Roberta C. Andrews Place: Troy and Roberta Andrews House, 600 Bolin Brook Farm Road, Calvander (Chapel Hill vicinity)Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)