Howard Raymond Weeks

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1930 Thomas Atwood's new firm, Atwood and Weeks, moves from Chapel Hill to Durham With campus building stopped by the 1929 crash and Nash retiring, Atwood took H. Raymond Weeks as his partner and moved the practice to Durham. Weeks succeeded Nash as university architect, with Nash advising him until 1953. People: Howard Raymond Weeks, Thomas C. Atwood Place: Chapel Hill and DurhamSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 18
2. August 1938 to March 1939 Chapel Hill builds a new town hall with PWA help The town hall at 100 West Rosemary Street, on the site of the town's first town hall, was a joint federal and town project: the Public Works Administration paid 45 per cent of the cost (46 per cent, the Weekly said at the dedication), where Little credits the WPA with about half. The contract went to H. F. Mitchell Jr. of Burlington on August 18, 1938, and work began that day to meet the federal deadline. The building went into use in late March 1939 and was dedicated at an open house on April 10, 1939. University architects Atwood and Weeks designed the two-story brick building in a Williamsburg-inspired Colonial style with a hipped slate roof, cupola and swan's-neck pediment. People: Thomas C. Atwood, Howard Raymond Weeks Place: 100 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: H. F. Mitchell Jr.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 66 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 31, 1939, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 19, 1938, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1
3. April 1939–January 1940 Lenoir Hall is built as the new campus dining hall Atwood and Weeks designed Lenoir Hall, a red brick dining hall with large windows near Wilson Library, at the west end of Emerson Field. The general contract went to a Charlotte company on April 11, 1939, with 180 days to finish, but a strike at the limestone quarries held up the work, and in December 1939 the Weekly listed the $265,400 dining hall among University buildings to be finished in 1940, to open with the winter quarter in January. It served its first meal at noon on January 2, 1940. Little dates its completion to 1939. People: Thomas C. Atwood, Howard Raymond Weeks Place: Lenoir Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Emerson Field, Wilson LibrarySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 56 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 3, 1939, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 5, 1940, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1982, p. 5
4. by December 3, 1943 The county acquires a West Franklin Street site for a new Chapel Hill High School The land west of the Chapel Hill elementary school on West Franklin Street was obtained for a new high school through the University, in exchange for the old high school site, and by the county board of education's purchase of more Franklin Street frontage. On November 27 the school board and architect H. Raymond Weeks spent hours planning the building with N. L. Engelhardt of New York, a leading school-plant expert. People: Howard Raymond Weeks, Allison W. Honeycutt Place: West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: N. L. Engelhardt · Also mentions: Chapel Hill elementary school, Franklin StreetThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 3, 1943, p. 1
5. March 3, 1947 County commissioners approve an $85,000 remodeling of the courthouse interior After hearing architect H. Raymond Weeks's final tentative report, the commissioners gave the go-ahead to spend about $85,000 remodeling the inside of the century-old courthouse, with a basement, larger record vaults, jury rooms, judges' chambers, a courtroom balcony, heat, a sprinkler system and rest rooms for white and Black men and women, while leaving the exterior unchanged. The accountant, tax collector and other county offices were to go to a new office building. People: Howard Raymond Weeks, Collier Cobb Jr. Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1947, p. 1
6. May 5, 1947 Preservationists ask the county commissioners to spare the courthouse stair hall As the county commissioners passed the final orders for a $1,045,000 bond vote on June 10, a group led by Elizabeth Sunderland and Eva Gatling of the Duke fine arts faculty asked them not to tear out the front stair hall of the old courthouse in the planned interior remodeling. After also hearing a telegram from playwright Paul Green, the board said it would revise the plans to leave the stair halls alone except for repairs. People: Paul Green, Collier Cobb Jr., Howard Raymond Weeks Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Elizabeth Sunderland, Eva GatlingSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 8, 1947, p. 1
7. March 1948 Architect H. Raymond Weeks presents plans for a school for Black children in Cedar Grove Township H. Raymond Weeks showed the Orange County Board of Education his design for a consolidated school for Black pupils in Cedar Grove Township. The board sent the plans to the Federal Works Agency, which lent school systems money for architects' fees. People: Howard Raymond Weeks Place: Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar GroveNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 16
8. by May 6, 1948 The county school board signs contracts for a three-room addition to the Hillsboro high school for Black students By May 6, 1948, the Orange County Board of Education had signed contracts totaling $23,681.70 for a three-room addition to the Hillsboro Negro High School, with T. W. Poe and Sons of Durham as general contractor and H. Raymond Weeks of Durham as architect. Work was to begin when school closed, with the rooms ready for September 1. People: Howard Raymond Weeks Place: Hillsboro Negro High School (Central High School), HillsboroughThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 6, 1948, p. 1
9. May 1950 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 Weeks Place: Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar Grove · Also named: W. F. Credle, Edward Waugh · Also mentions: Lincoln High SchoolNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 17