Werner Hausler

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1. 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: Arthur Cogswell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Modernist: Arthur Ralph Cogswell Jr. FAIA
2. 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
3. May 2, 1967 Chapel Hill voters elect Neill Rosser and Paul Gutherie Jr. to the city school board In the town election, Neill Rosser and Paul Gutherie Jr. won seats on the Chapel Hill City Board of Education. Incumbent Dr. Richard Peters lost, as did Mrs. William J. Koch, Francis DeFriess, Werner Hausler and C. A. Houck. People: Werner Hausler Place: Chapel Hill school district · Also named: Neill Rosser, Paul Gutherie Jr., Richard PetersSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 4, 1967, p. 1
4. 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
5. October 6, 1969 Board of Adjustment throws out an alderman's appeal against the UNC health affairs building permit The Chapel Hill Board of Adjustment voted 6 to 2 that Alderman David Ethridge's September 25 appeal was untimely and so invalid. Ethridge had asked that the University's permit for its health affairs complex be withdrawn, charging that it never properly applied and was building the Health Affairs Library too close to South Columbia Street; the appeal had briefly put an automatic stay on the work, which the University did not observe. People: Werner Hausler Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: David Ethridge · Also mentions: South Columbia StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, October 8, 1969, p. 1
6. 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
7. 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