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James G. Graham (ca. 1817-1860s), a Rowan County carpenter and farmer, is associated by family tradition with building three antebellum farmhouses, all 2-story frame dwellings with Greek Revival detail influenced by Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter (1830). Part of the Scotch-Irish, Presbyterian rural community in western Rowan County, he married Nancy Burke in 1849...
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John B. Halcott (fl. 1880s) was an Albany, New York, architect who planned ornate and substantial late 19th century buildings in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina. How his connection with North Carolina clients came about is not yet established: he was one of many northern architects who obtained commissions in the state in the...
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Samuel Hancock (1784-April 11, 1848), a brickmason and brickmaker in Hillsborough during the early 19th century, served as mentor to Hillsborough's distinguished brick builder John Berry and worked with Berry for several years. The Hancock name first appears in Orange County records in the 1780s. Samuel Hancock, whose father may have been Henry Hancock, could...
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Charles E. Hartge (September 1, 1865-October 25, 1918), a German-born architect originally named Carl Emil Hartge, designed many churches, schools, and other buildings in central and eastern North Carolina around the turn of the 20th century. After coming to the United States in 1882, he settled in Tarboro by 1888, when he applied for...
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Robert Hay (ca. 1754-1850), a native of Scotland, was a skilled woodworker--chairmaker, wagonmaker, carriage maker, and briefly a house carpenter--prominent in New Bern in the early 19th century. According to Hay's obituary in the Newbernian of December 10, 1850, he arrived in America at the close of the American Revolution and settled in New...
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The architectural firm was formed in Atlanta before 1899 by Oliver Duke Wheeler and Luke Hayden. They moved to Charlotte and formed Hayden, Wheeler, and Schwend, and after Schwend left the firm, briefly became Hayden, Wheeler, and Company in 1901. This was one of a series of partnerships formed by Wheeler. For the firm's...
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The architectural firm was formed in 1899 in Charlotte when Oliver Duke Wheeler and Luke Hayden of Hayden and Wheeler took Louis E. Schwend as partner. Schwend died in November 1900. This was one of a series of partnerships formed by Wheeler. For the firm's operation and selected building list, see the entries for...
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Edward Hazlehurst (December 29, 1853-January 2, 1915) was a Philadelphia architect whose work concentrated in Pennsylvania but also included at least one major North Carolina project, the Queen Anne style Battery Park Hotel (1886) in Asheville. Hazlehurst was born near Brandenburg, Kentucky, the son of John Hazlehurst of Philadelphia and Elizabeth Dunlap Blight Hazlehurst. He...
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William J. Hicks (February 18, 1827-January 14, 1911), millwright, builder, contractor, architect, and prison warden, began his career in the 1850s and became a prominent figure in North Carolina construction after the Civil War. He epitomized the practical, ambitious, and adaptable men who made their way in the unsettled times after the war. Hicks was...
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Gilbert P. Higley (September 3, 1823-July 5, 1896), a Connecticut-born carpenter, is described by local tradition as builder of the Greek Revival style Philadelphus Presbyterian Church (1860-1863) in Robeson County. Philadelphus is one of an important group of antebellum Greek Revival frame churches built for Highland Scots Presbyterian congregations in the upper Cape Fear...
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