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George Watts Carr Sr.

George Watts Carr Sr. (1893–1975) was a Durham architect, in practice there from the mid-1920s to 1961, and a lifelong champion of the Colonial Revival. In Chapel Hill he designed houses for University of North Carolina people from the late 1920s into the 1950s, including the 1940 Carmichael House. In 1948 he remodeled Montrose in Hillsborough as a Colonial Revival house for Lt. Gov. Alexander H. Graham.

Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR0077ad

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  1. Anatomy professor Wesley George builds a Colonial Revival cottage in Gimghoul George Watts Carr of Durham designed Wesley George's small front-gabled, shingled house with an entrance portico at 208 Glandon Drive, a sign of the Colonial Revival taking over the Gimghoul neighborhood after its first Craftsman houses. People: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George), George Watts Carr Sr.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 63
  2. Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham has Watts Carr remodel Montrose as a Colonial Revival house In 1948 Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham and his wife hired Durham architect Watts Carr to turn the Victorian house at Montrose into a Colonial Revival one, with a high hipped roof, side wings and a Georgian Revival entrance. Carr helped work in mantels, doors and trim from old Orange County houses, including double doors from the Burwell School. People: George Watts Carr Sr.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 320 St. Mary's Road, Montrose
  3. George Watts Carr designs a Cape Cod house on Country Club Road for religion professor Bernard Boyd The large story-and-a-half house for Bernard and Thelma Boyd has shake siding and three gabled dormers. Carr, a lifelong advocate of the Colonial Revival, had designed Laurel Hill houses since the late 1920s. People: George Watts Carr Sr.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 23

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