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Edward W. Waugh

Edward W. (Terry) Waugh (1913–1966) was a South African-born architect who came to Raleigh as one of the first professors at the North Carolina State School of Design and opened his own practice in 1951. In Chapel Hill he designed a run of modernist houses from 1952 into the 1960s, most on Morgan Creek Road, among them the Thomas House of 1953. With his wife, Elizabeth, he wrote The South Builds (1960).

Source: North Carolina Architects & Builders: Waugh, Edward W. (1913-1966)

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Edward W. Waugh (1913-1966) Papers

Waugh, Edward W. (Edward Walter) · 1935

Architectural plans, drawings and sketches by Edward W. 'Terry' Waugh, Raleigh architect and NC State professor, 1935 to 1966. They include campus plans for NC State, UNC Greensboro, the university at Chapel Hill in 1959, the Universidad Agraria in Peru and Samarcand Manor, along with city plans, among them Chicago in 1945. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.1478.

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  1. Archie Royal Davis replaces H. Raymond Weeks as architect of the Cedar Grove school When state school planners faulted H. Raymond Weeks's design in April 1950, the board sent him to W. F. Credle and Edward Waugh of the Division of Schoolhouse Planning, but Weeks would not rework it on short notice. By May the job had gone to Archie Royal Davis, who was also designing Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill; the board approved his preliminary plans in June. People: Archie Royal Davis, Edward W. Waugh, Howard Raymond WeeksNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 17
  2. Architect Edward Waugh designs a house for Dr. C. G. Thomas on Morgan Creek Road Edward (Terry) Waugh of the State College School of Design drew several of the first Morgan Creek Hills houses for doctors who came to teach at the enlarged medical school. His 1953 house at 408 Morgan Creek Road, for surgery professor C. G. (Tim) Thomas and his wife, is a small side-gabled house of long red Norman brick and redwood that steps down its slope. People: Edward W. WaughSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 85
  3. Edward and Elizabeth Waugh publish The South Builds Architect Edward Waugh and his wife Elizabeth published The South Builds with the University of North Carolina Press in 1960, a survey of new Southern architecture that favored modern buildings suited to the region's climate. People: Edward W. WaughSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 85

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