Arthur Cogswell

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1. 1960 Architect Arthur Cogswell designs his own house on Marilyn Lane Cogswell's 1960 house at 5 Marilyn Lane sits on two levels in a slope, planned on George Matsumoto's four-foot grid and sided in vertical pine, with a short bridge from the drive to the door and a living room under a row of small glass-ended gables. It won an award from the North Carolina chapter of the AIA. People: George Matsumoto, Arthur Cogswell Place: 5 Marilyn Lane, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 92
2. 1962 Arthur Cogswell opens his own architecture firm in Chapel Hill Arthur Cogswell, a UNC graduate of 1952 who trained in architecture at State College and spent the late 1950s in Don Stewart's office, opened his own Chapel Hill practice in 1962, designing flat-roofed, cantilevered houses in the spare manner he learned from George Matsumoto. People: George Matsumoto, Arthur Cogswell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Don StewartSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 92
3. 1963 Arthur Cogswell designs a barrel-vaulted concrete house for David Hill In 1963 Cogswell built a concrete house with a barrel-vaulted roof at 205 Wood Circle in Coker Hills for Duke engineering professor David Hill, an example of the period's trials of new building materials. People: Arthur Cogswell Place: 205 Wood Circle, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill · Also named: David HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
4. 1964 Arthur Cogswell designs the Koch House on Clayton Road In 1964 Cogswell designed a one-story, flat-roofed house for botany professor Arthur Koch at 401 Clayton Road in Coker Hills: a floor plate projecting from a block base, with glass walls opening to a deck over a pond. It received a North Carolina AIA award. People: Arthur Cogswell Place: 401 Clayton Road, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill · Also named: Arthur KochSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
5. 1964 Werner Hausler joins Arthur Cogswell's Chapel Hill architecture firm Hausler went to work for Arthur Cogswell in 1964, two years after Cogswell set up his own practice. The two had become partners in Cogswell/Hausler by 1967. People: Werner Hausler, Arthur Cogswell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Modernist: Arthur Ralph Cogswell Jr. FAIA
6. mid-1960s Architect Arthur Cogswell adds a flat-roofed art studio to the Voitle house on Country Club Road The low modern studio at the rear has vertical wood siding and large fixed windows, a sharp contrast to the 1930s cottage in front of it. People: Arthur Cogswell Place: Voitle House, 307 Country Club Road, Laurel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 18
7. 1966 Arthur Cogswell designs a pyramid-roofed house for Marion Townend At 411 Clayton Road in Coker Hills, Cogswell designed a house in 1966 for Marion Townend under a tall pyramidal roof. A skylight at the peak lights the central living room and the rooms around it, whose light shifts as the sun moves. People: Arthur Cogswell Place: 411 Clayton Road, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill · Also named: Marion TownendSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
8. 1967 Arthur Cogswell and Werner Hausler form Cogswell/Hausler Architects In 1967 Cogswell went into partnership with Werner Hausler, an East German-born architect he had met at State College. In its early years the firm worked mostly on houses, designing many in Coker Hills, Lake Forest, Morgan Creek Hills and Glendale, and it lasted until Hausler retired in 1990. People: Werner Hausler, Arthur Cogswell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
9. 1969 Cogswell/Hausler design Arthur Cogswell's second house on Elliott Road The firm's 1969 house for Arthur Cogswell at 308 Elliott Road is a flat-roofed steel-frame building, plain and white outside, whose glass-walled rooms wrap around a terrace with a heated pool. It won a North Carolina AIA award. People: Werner Hausler, Arthur Cogswell Place: 308 Elliott Road, Coker Hills, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 94
10. 1970 Cogswell/Hausler design Ridgefield Townhouses, subsidized housing off South Estes Drive The firm's 1970 Ridgefield Townhouses, on a secluded tract at the end of South Estes Drive, are two-story brick and frame apartments built on a small budget but made to look like middle-class housing, set in courtyards around a community building and playground. The 44-unit neighborhood joined the town's public housing after Craig-Gomains and Lindsay Street (1967) and North Columbia Street (1968). People: Arthur Cogswell, Werner Hausler Place: Ridgefield Townhouses, South Estes Drive, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: North Columbia StreetNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 95
11. 1970 Cogswell/Hausler design a new sanctuary for the Community Church on Purefoy Road In 1970 the firm added a two-story International Style sanctuary with stained siding and large south windows to the Community Church at 106 Purefoy Road, tied to the congregation's plain brick building of 1957 by George Matsumoto through a glass link. The integrated, nondenominational church had been founded in 1953 by the Rev. Charlie Jones and members who left Chapel Hill Presbyterian with him. People: Arthur Cogswell, Werner Hausler, George Matsumoto, Charles M. Jones Place: 106 Purefoy Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charlie JonesNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 94
12. 1997 Beta Theta Pi alumni begin renovating the chapter house Following an alumni capital campaign, work began in 1997 to bring the 1929 house up to code while keeping its plan and original materials; architect and Beta alumnus Arthur Cogswell Jr. led it, and the Betas were the first fraternity to add a sprinkler system after the 1996 fire. People: Arthur Cogswell Place: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, 114 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Arthur Cogswell Jr.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, National Register nomination (OR1744), p. 12