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Bossom, Alfred Charles

London, England

Hook and Sawyer / Hook and Rogers / Hook and Hook

By 1898, Charles C. Hook had established the first of his three architectural partnerships. Hook joined with New Yorker Frank McMurray Sawyer to form Hook and Sawyer, which operated from 1898 to 1905 and reported 103 projects to the Manufacturers' Record. In this, as in later partnerships, it is difficult or impossible to know which man designed...

Hook, Charles Christian

Leary, Samuel Linton

Atwood and Weeks / Atwood and Nash

Architectural/Engineering firm of Thomas C. Atwood - first in partnership with Arthur Nash, which partnership arose in major expansion of the UNC campus, and later with H. Raymond Weeks.

2620 University Dr.

Built c. 1930, this Rockwood house on a large lot was home to Duke professor Haywood M. Taylor and his wife Anne in 1943. Taylor was one of the original faculty members of Duke's Biochemistry department in the 1940s.

2003 University Dr.

Two-story brick Colonial Revival-style house with a hip roof, exterior end chimney, a French door, and a 1-story porch with classical columns, a wood railing, and an iron railing around the porch roof. In 1940 this was no. 2011, and was owned, but not occupied, by James O. Cobb, developer of Forest Hills.

Hutchins, John W.

Chatham Knitting Mills

The Chatham Knitting Mills were founded in 1906 and foundered in 1932; the site became a WPA sewing room, then was demolished. By the mid-1950s, Gann Street was plowed through the former site.

1309 Glendale Ave.

Built in 1926 by Joseph Wilbur Spransy and his wife Isabel, this brick foursquare remained in the Spransy family until ~1962.