George Matsumoto

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1952 Architect George Matsumoto draws plans for Dr. Isaac Taylor's house on Morgan Creek Road George Matsumoto of the State College School of Design drew the plans for the house of Dr. Isaac M. Taylor, new to the medical school faculty, in Morgan Creek Hills. The Taylors raised their children there, among them the singer James Taylor. People: Isaac Montrose Taylor, George MatsumotoSearch the index · NC State University Libraries: George Matsumoto Papers, 1945-1991 (MC 00042), finding aid
2. 1953 to 1954 Milton Julian wins the right to build his modernist house on Ledge Lane When W. C. Coker's chosen architect, Walter D. Toy, refused to approve the plans for clothier Milton Julian's house on Ledge Lane, designed by George Matsumoto of the State College School of Design, Milton and Virginia Julian sued on September 30, 1953; Coker's executors, his widow and neighbors Cornelius and Beulah Cathey opposed them. The North Carolina Supreme Court held on June 4, 1954 that the approval clause was personal to Coker and ended at his death in June 1953, and the International Style house was finished by November 1956. People: George MatsumotoSearch the index · Caselaw Access Project: Julian v. Lawton, 240 N.C. 436, 82 S.E.2d 210 (N.C. Supreme Court, June 4, 1954)
3. by November 1956 Milton Julian's Matsumoto-designed house on Ledge Lane is finished The modernist house George Matsumoto designed for clothier Milton Julian and his family, which neighbors had gone to court to stop, stood finished by November 1956, when it was one of ten homes on the School Art Guild's tour of Chapel Hill homes. People: George MatsumotoSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 2, 1956, p. 1
4. 1958 George Matsumoto draws plans for a Chapel Hill house for Cecile and Bryce DeWitt Matsumoto's papers hold sketches, preliminary drawings and fourteen sheets of working drawings for a residence in Chapel Hill for Cecile and Bryce DeWitt.Search the index · NC State University Libraries: George Matsumoto Papers, 1945-1991 (MC 00042), finding aid
5. 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: Arthur Cogswell, George MatsumotoSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 92
6. 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: Arthur Cogswell, George MatsumotoSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 92
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 MatsumotoNC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 94