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Howard Raymond Weeks

Howard Raymond Weeks (1901–1956) was an architect born in Palmyra, Missouri, and trained at Georgia Tech. When Arthur C. Nash retired in 1930, Thomas C. Atwood took Weeks as his partner, and Weeks followed Nash as the university's architect. His Chapel Hill work included Alderman, Kenan and McIver dormitories, Lenoir Dining Hall, Woollen Gym and the Ackland Art Museum.

Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR2289

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  1. 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: Thomas C. Atwood, Howard Raymond WeeksSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 18
  2. 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 WeeksNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 16
  3. 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

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