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Troy Monroe Andrews

Troy Monroe Andrews (1893–1982) was a research chemist from a farm family near Calvander, about seven miles northwest of Chapel Hill, who earned three degrees at UNC between 1914 and 1921. In 1954, visiting the farm, he and his wife, Robin, met the Swiss architect Franc Sidler, who sketched a house for them. After Andrews retired in 1961 they returned and in 1965–1967 built Sidler's stone Modernist house there.

Source: The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1944

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  1. 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, Troy Monroe AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  2. 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, Troy Monroe AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  3. 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., Troy Monroe AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)

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