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W. S. Andrews (fl. 1850s), architect, from Columbus, Ohio, appeared briefly during the antebellum railroad growth era in the North Carolina Piedmont. He advertised in the Greensboro Patriot of September 17, 1858, that he was "prepared to furnish plans and drawings for Public Buildings, Villas, Cottages, etc." In his advertisement, he cited as references such prominent Piedmont men as D. P. Weir, Charles Shober, Robert P. Dick, and Cyrus P. Mendenhall of Greensboro, and C. W. Covington of Rockingham, North Carolina. Several unusually fashionable and picturesque style "cottages" and "villas" were built for these men, suggesting that Andrews might have been working under the influence of published designs by Andrew Jackson Downing, Samuel Sloan, and others. The David P. Weir House (1850s?) was built several years after architect Alexander Jackson Davis gave Weir a plan for a much more elaborate English style house. Dunleith (1856) was the towered villa style residence of Judge Robert Dick. Cyrus Mendenhall, an officer of the North Carolina Railroad, was associated with numerous building projects, including the cottage-style Francis A. Stagg House built in Burlington in the late 1850s.
Although there is no C. W. Covington known in antebellum Rockingham, the John Wall Covington House near Rockingham (1850s) is a cruciform plan house akin to a Davis design for a "small classical villa" in Downing's Architecture of Country Houses (1850). Although none of these projects is documented as Andrews's, the coincidence of his references with these houses suggests that he was one of the men who translated national villa and cottage concepts into Piedmont communities.
Author: Catherine W. Bishir.
Published 2009
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| Location: | Greensboro, Guilford County |
| Street Address: | 223 N. Edgeworth St., Greensboro, NC |
| Status: | Standing |
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The picturesque residence was built several years after architect Alexander Jackson Davis gave Weir a plan for a much more elaborate English style house. |
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| Location: | Greensboro, Guilford County |
| Street Address: | Milton Road, Greensboro, NC |
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The villa with central tower and front-facing gabled wings strongly resembles Design 1 in Samuel Sloan's Model Architect. Although it is possible that architect Samuel Sloan actually designed the house for Judge Robert P. Dick, it appears more likely that a local builder copied it from Sloan's book--probably W. S. Andrews, who gave Judge Dick as a reference in 1858. |
| Title: | West elevation, Dunleith, Greensboro, North Carolina |
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Heacock, Scott J.. "West elevation, Dunleith, Greensboro, North Carolina" Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041), Built Heritage of North Carolina: Historic Architecture in the Old North State, North Carolina State University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
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| Location: | Rockingham, Richmond County |
| Street Address: | Rockingham Vicinity, NC |
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