Loewenstein, Edward (1913-1970)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Residences:
- Chicago, Illinois
- Greensboro, North Carolina
Trades:
- Architect
Styles & Forms:
Colonial Revival; Georgian Revival; Modernist
Edward Loewenstein (1913-1970), a native of Chicago, moved to Greensboro in 1945 with his wife, Frances Stern, following Army service in World War II. Frances, a native of the Greensboro area and stepdaughter of Julius Cone, local businessman of the Greensboro textile magnate family, provided access to a large social network of contacts within and outside of the Jewish community. Through this web of relations, Loewenstein secured design commissions for residential and commercial projects that redefined Greensboro in the post-World War II period. With a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1930-1935), he established a design practice in Greensboro in 1946, and in 1953 began a flourishing partnership with Robert A. Atkinson, Jr., that continued until Loewenstein’s death in 1970. Loewenstein-Atkinson produced more than 1,600 commissions spanning that time period, one third of them residential.
Committed to the community, the firm hired the first African-American architects and design professionals in Greensboro, among them the late William Streat (Loewenstein’s MIT classmate who eventually joined North Carolina A&T’s faculty), the late W. Edward Jenkins, and Clinton E. Gravely, all of whom went on to establish prolific architectural careers in North Carolina and beyond. He also mentored hundreds of students in the office as interns, among them Frank Harmon, North Carolina, and Anne Greene, Washington DC, both going on to design award-winning buildings and interiors throughout the United States. Loewenstein also taught history of architecture lecture courses and studios at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (present University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1958 through the late 1960s. He also offered design studios for three years resulting in the development of a student-designed structure dubbed the “Commencement House” in each of those studios.
Because of Loewenstein’s active community engagement, serving with the Cerebral Palsy Association, the Evergreens Retirement Home, the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA, on the board of the Greensboro Preservation Society, and as an advocate of civil rights, the firm completed many buildings for the public good of Greensboro. These public structures—schools, hospitals, and religious institutions, as well as buildings for industry and commerce—included the development of the master plan and the completion of twelve buildings for Bennett College, a traditionally African-American women’s campus. Loewenstein was also active in the Weatherspoon Association, the local art museum, and a member of the Friends of the Library. He was the president of the North Carolina Architectural Foundation, the editor of Southern Architect, and president of the Greensboro Registered Architects.
Non-residential commissions for Loewenstein-Atkinson ran the usual gamut of buildings for a prospering architectural practice of the post-war period. In some ways, the commercial buildings reflected Loewenstein’s own belief in the community. Beyond Bennett College, Loewenstein embraced the African-American community and some of the inequities in facilities existent among segments of the population. Shortly before his death, Loewenstein completed the design for the YWCA Building (1971) to bring together membership from the black and white branches that had existed through the 1960s. His involvement on the building commission of the Beth David Synagogue led to much service work but never the full commission for the facility.
In the 1950s, the firm designed schools, hospitals, religious buildings, and public facilities, including the Woman’s College Physical Education Building and Coleman Gymnasium (1949-1955), which provided a home to the dance program and intramural sports, as well as a symbolic community meeting space for both the university and the surrounding neighborhoods. In the more tumultuous 1960s, Loewenstein remained true to his open-minded spirit and sense of civic engagement as he forged additional avenues for commercially based work. Among other commissions, the firm designed the Golden Gate Shopping Center (1961) to provide an easily accessed store east of Elm Street for the growing populations on that edge of town. Through the Bessemer Land Company, Loewenstein and the firm’s employees continued to design in traditionally African-American neighborhoods in east Greensboro, including the Dudley High School Gymnasium (1959). Several commissions came through Cone Mills and its related institutions including the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (1952) and school complex near the mill. The Greensboro Public Library (1964), a symbol for the progress of the town, remained an important landmark and anchored the civic pride of the community in troubling times.
As significant as this commercial and institutional work was to understanding the power of design and the presence of Modernism in traditional Greensboro, Edward Loewenstein’s greatest contribution to the emerging contemporary architectural lexicon of the Piedmont is best represented by his residential commissions. He created livable houses that mediated between the crisp high-style Modernism of his training and the traditional buildings on the local landscape. Working with a diverse clientele, including some of the chief leaders of the Jewish community, Loewenstein said something different with these innovative buildings in a community that valued the tried and true, starting with his own home, the Frances and Edward Loewenstein House (1954), featuring slanted exterior walls, curving interior fieldstone walls, and broadly horizontal overhangs in antithesis to conservative, upright Colonial Revival neighbors. With the Eleanor and Marion Bertling House (1953), Loewenstein found unsolicited support from the neighbors to the property, all of whom signed a petition to the Greensboro Zoning Commission to allow a Modern building to be constructed in the Kirkwood neighborhood, which was compose almost exclusively of Cape Cod-style houses. Through homes like these, Loewenstein’s clients brought an avant garde cultural and social agenda to a community attempting to redefine itself in the 1950s and 1960s.
Yet alongside the Modern structures, Loewenstein-Atkinson also designed numerous ranch and Colonial-inspired structures with more traditional details. More than two-dozen residential commissions incorporate both Modern and traditional spatial organizations, details, and landscape relationships, blending the two different approaches to design within the same buildings, as in the Joan and Herbert S. Falk, Jr., House (1964-1965), and the Bettie and Robert S. Chandgie House (1958), a building that features a curved fieldstone full-height wall to define the dining room space, lurking behind a Ranch-style façade.
Celebrating his Modern approach to design, magazines including Architectural Record, McCall’s Magazine, Bride’s Magazine, House and Garden, and Southern Architect published Loewenstein’s own work as well as that of his firm. The North Carolina American Institute of Architects bestowed an award for Loewenstein’s Martha and Wilbur Carter House (1950-1951), the community’s first Modern dwelling. In that vein, Loewenstein brought to the landscape nearly two dozen houses following the Modernist idiom, mostly located within the Irving Park and Starmount neighborhoods of Greensboro, but spread farther afield in the Triad in Sedgefield, Summerfield, Pinehurst, Alamance County, and in southern Virginia (Danville and Martinsville). To support the supervision of these jobs as well as many commercial commissions, Loewenstein opened a series of satellite offices in Burlington, Martinsville, Danville, and Raleigh, the lattermost associated with Edward W. “Terry” Waugh.
Loewenstein worked with numerous collaborators in the firm and as consultants to the firm, among them Gregory Ivy, Chairman of the Woman’s College Department of Art (1938-1961), who hired Loewenstein to teach at the Woman’s College. Ivy, after his resignation from the Woman’s College, worked from 1961-1965 for Loewenstein as the director of the interior design division within the Loewenstein-Atkinson firm. Loewenstein partnered with Eugene Gulledge of Superior Construction Company to bring to fruition a broad number of residential and commercial commissions for Loewenstein-Atkinson. As a collaborator, Gulledge brought sub-contractors and laborers and formed a satellite network to bring to ground the many residential and commercial designs from the architectural office. One of the more significant results of the Loewenstein-Atkinson connection to Superior Construction resulted in Gulledge fronting the money for all three of the Commencement House projects built on speculation: the Frances and Irvin Squires House (1958); the Marion and Kenneth P. Hinsdale House (1959), and the Nancy and Herbert L. Smith House (1965), in Sedgefield. Later, Gulledge lured Loewenstein-Atkinson into designing the Horizon House (Alf Hollar House, 1962), a structure that focused on the innovative us of concrete, part of a national competition locally sponsored by Carolina Quality Block Construction.
Loewenstein also collaborated with Sarah Hunter Kelly (1896-1982), a New York interior designer with an international clientele. She aided Loewenstein’s firm with several significant residential commissions: the Loewenstein House and the Katherine and Sidney J. Stern House (1955-1956), and the Leah and A. Jack Tannenbaum House (1957), all in Greensboro, as well as the Ann and Lloyd P. Tate House (1954-1955) in Pinehurst. Loewenstein collaborated also with local designer Otto Zenke (1904-1984). Together they worked on a handful of commissions in Greensboro, most notably the Edyth and Herman L. Davidson House (ca. 1961) in the Starmount Forest neighborhood, where Zenke’s French Provincial style living and dining rooms masked a Modern kitchen, family room, and bedroom wing opening to the rear. Additional Modern dwellings can be found throughout Greensboro, with concentrations in the Irving Park and Starmount neighborhoods, and commissions in Sedgefield, Summerfield, Pleasant Garden, and along Westridge Road.
Although his mid-century Modern buildings comprise a tremendous physical legacy to Greensboro, Loewenstein’s greatest contribution to the North Carolina built environment was the training he provided for a number of architects and designers who practiced in Greensboro and throughout the state. More than thirty architects, draftsmen, and support staff worked at the firm at its peak size in the mid-1960s. As heirs of Loewenstein’s mid-century Modern aesthetic, these practitioners continued to shape North Carolina architectural and design endeavors.
Note: The building list represents a fraction of the total body of work from the hundreds of Loewenstein-Atkinson projects across the spectrum of their commissions. At this writing, only Guilford County commissions are included, because address and status confirmations have not been completed in other counties. The firm’s work encompasses many residential and commercial commissions in North Carolina without explicit confirmed addresses, including those in Ahoskie, Blowing Rock, Burlington, Clemmons, Conover, Elkin, Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Hillsboro, Jacksonville, Kernersville, Madison, Mount Airy, Newland, Pinehurst, Reidsville, Sanford, Southern Pines, Statesville, Thomasville, Winston-Salem, and elsewhere. Further information on Loewenstein may be obtained from the author, and the posted list will be expanded as the locations and status of buildings can be confirmed.
- Charlotte Vestal Brown Papers, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Edward Loewenstein family papers, private collection, Greensboro, North Carolina.
- Loewenstein-Atkinson Architects firm records, private collection, Greensboro, North Carolina.
- Patrick Lee Lucas, interviews with clients, employees, friends and family of Edward Loewenstein, 2005-2009.
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, et al., “Close to Home: Edward Loewenstein + Modernism in Greensboro,” http://www.uncg.edu/iar/modernism/index.html.
A. J. Tannenbaum Clinic
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1001 N Elm St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Health Care
Addie and John R. Miller House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1904 Lafayette Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Adele and M. Lewis Rosenberg House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1951
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3300 Starmount Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Alf Hollar House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsVariant Name(s):Horizon House
Dates:1962
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1807 Brookcliff Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Note:This house was an entry in the Horizon Home Competition, locally sponsored by Carolina Quality Block Competition.
Allen Jay School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1951-1953
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1421 Westover Terrace, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Alsia and Archie B. Joyner House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1805 Nottingham Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
American Friends Service Committee Building
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958
Location:High Point, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1818 S Main St., High Point, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Anne and James H. Willis House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1965
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:707 Blair St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Barbara and Harvey Colchamiro House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:106 Knollwood Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Barbara and Maurice Fishman House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1968
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:204 Kemp Rd. E, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Bates Nitewear Factory, Cafeteria, Office, and Warehouse
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1949-1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1120 East Bessemer Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Industrial
Ben L. Smith High School Auditorium
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1950-1951
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2407 Osborne Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Bennett College Dormitory
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Bennett College Faculty Residence
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1948
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Bennett College Gymnasium
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1962-1965
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Bennett College Infirmary
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1966
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Health Care
Bennett College Math and Sciences Building
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1968
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Bennett College Nursery
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1953
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Bennett College President's House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Residential
Bessemer Improvement Corporation Office
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1948
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1100 E Bessemer Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Bettie and Robert S. Chandgie House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:401 Kimberly Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Betty and Charles Roth House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958-1960
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:615 Blair St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Blanche S. Benjamin Branch, Greensboro Public Library
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1967-1970
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1593 Benjamin Parkway, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Public
Blandwood Carriage House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect (1967-1970); Loewenstein-Atkinson, architects (1967-1970)Dates:1967-1970 [renovation, moving and additions]
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:W McGee St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Brown's Funeral Home
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1948
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:918 E Market St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Calvary Baptist Church
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1961
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3701 Heath St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Carolina By-Products
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2000 Randolph Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Ceasar Cone Memorial Community Services Building
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Guilford CountyStreet Address:N Elm St. at Northwood Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Health Care
Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital
Contributors:Charles C. Hartmann, architect; Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1949-1950
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:4001 E Bessemer Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Health Care
Central YMCA
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectDates:1962
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:W Market St. at Tate St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Recreational
Cerebral Palsy School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1961
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1508 Gatewood Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Charles D. Orth III House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1950-1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Dover Rd. at Hamilton Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Children's Home Society
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958-1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:740 Chestnut St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Institutional
Community Finance Corporation
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1947
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:108 W Washington St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
David Jones Elementary School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:502 South St. Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
David M. Parmelee House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1965
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:429 E Hendrix St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Doris and W. C. Boren, III House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1912 Lafayette Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Dudley High School Gymnasium
Contributors:Dates:1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1200 Lincoln St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Images Published In:“Willie Edward ‘Blue’ Jenkins,” http://www.ncmodernist.org/jenkins.htm.
Note:The gymnasium, nationally recognized at its completion, was especially important to African Americans in Greensboro as the work of a black architect. At the turn of the 21st century, there were plans to demolish the gym and the nearby Dudley High School by Charles C. Hartmann, but Dudley alumni and local preservationists convinced the local board of education to renovate rather than raze them. The brick building has green corrugated polyester panels beneath the arched roofline on all four sides, interspersed with hinged openings to permit ventilation. The intersecting arches form a groin vault above the broad, uninterrupted space. See Jim Schlosser, “Dudley nominated for historic status,” Greensboro News-Record, Sept. 3, 2002.
Duke Power Store
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1951
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:400 E Market St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Eden and Lawrence Cohen House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1002 Dover Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Edgeville School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1951
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Ball St. at Ryan St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Edyth and Herman L. Davidson House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:Ca. 1961
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3932 Starmount Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Eleanor and Marion Bertling House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1953
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2312 Princess Ann St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Elks Club
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1965
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1949 Battleground Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Fraternal
Ellen and Edgar Marks House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1964
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:210 Kemp Rd. E, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Elreta and Girardeau Alexander House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Randleman Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Emma and Victor Bates House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1957
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3910 Starmount Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Evelyn and John Hyman House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:608 Kimberly Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Evergreens Nursing Home
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1963-1964
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:E Bessemer Ave at Huffine Mill Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Health Care
Fairview Shopping Center
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Fairview St. at Fourth St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Faye and French P. Wise House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3700 Holt’s Chapel Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
First Baptist Church
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1956
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1000 Madison Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Florence and Albert Jacobson House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1967
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3607 Henderson Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Frances and Edward Loewenstein House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2104 Granville Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Frances and Irvin Squires House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsVariant Name(s):1958 Commencement House
Dates:1958
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2207 N Elm St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Note:This building was designed by students in Loewenstein’s studio at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina as the 1958 Commencement House.
Franklin's Lawndale Drugs
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:Ca. 1951
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2140 Lawndale Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Golden Gate Shopping Center
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1961
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:E Cornwallis Dr. at N Church St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Greensboro News Company
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:200-204 N Davie St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Greensboro Public Library
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1964
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Friendly Ave. at Greene St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Public
Guilford Manufacturing Company
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1900 E Bessemer Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Industrial
Guilford National Bank Drive-in 2
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1953
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:421-423 N Elm St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Isabel and Sydney Cone, Jr., House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1956
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:306 Rockford Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
J. C. Price School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1950
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:901 S Cedar St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
J. G. White House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:High Point, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Glenwyck Ave., High Point, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Joan and Herbert S. Falk, Jr., House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1964-1965
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2204 Marston Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Joan and Richard Steele House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1964
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:601 Woodland Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Joanne and Wayne Davis House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1959-1962
Location:Guilford CountyStreet Address:Pleasant Garden, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
John Wilson Clinic
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1209 Magnolia St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Health Care
Katherine and Sidney J. Stern House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955-1956
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1804 Nottingham Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Lambeth Funeral Home
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:W Wendover Ave. at Virginia St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Leah and A. Jack Tannenbaum House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1957
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2904 Wynnewood Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Libbie and Clarence Cone House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:910 Sunset Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:No longer standing
Type:Residential
M. Celeste Ulrich House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1963
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:5808 Queen Alice Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Marion and Kenneth P. Hinsdale House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsVariant Name(s):1959 Commencement House
Dates:1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:602 Rockford Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Note:The house was designed by students in Loewenstein’s studio at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina as the 1959 Commencement House.
Martha and Ceasar Cone House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Guilford CountyStreet Address:506 Cornwallis Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:No longer standing
Type:Residential
Martha and Wilbur Carter House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1950-1951
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1012 Counrty Club Dr., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Mildred and E. Ray Bond House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1214 Westridge Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Modern Metal Products Company
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2103 Sullivan St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Industrial
Moses H. Cone Hospital Laboratory
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1966
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:N Elm St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Health Care
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1953
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1422 Huffine Mill Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Nancy and Herbert L. Smith House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsVariant Name(s):1965 Commencement House
Dates:1964
Location:Sedgefield, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3307 Gaston Rd., Sedgefield, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Note:Designed by students in Loewenstein’s studio at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as the 1965 Commencement House.
Nancy and Stephen Upson House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1956
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2101 Lafayette Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Altered
Type:Residential
Note:The house has lost its original character through a recent enlargement in a different form and style.
Oak Ridge Military Institute Field House and Gym
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1962
Location:Oak Ridge, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Oak Ridge, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Oaks Motor Lodge Restaurant
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1118 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Oscar and Juliet Burnett House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1908-1910 Lafayette Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:No longer standing
Type:Residential
Physical Education Building and Coleman Gymnasium
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1949-1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Pomona Terra Cotta Office Building
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1957
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Pomona Village, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Presbyterian House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1964
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Proximity School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1950
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1401 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Rankin School
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:3301 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Rosenthal Gymnasium
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Ruzicka Bookbinding Plant
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1962
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:911 Northridge St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Industrial
S. T. Wyrick Store
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1948
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:117 N Greene St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Scott's Famous BBQ Drive-In
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1950
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:934 E Bessemer Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Second Pilgrim Holiness Church Sanctuary and Classroom
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1704 Front St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Seven-Up Bottling Company Warehouse
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1313 E Bessmer Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Industrial
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1952
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:900 Sixteenth St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Education Building
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Sixteenth St. at Hubbard St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Southern Optical Company Office and Factory
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1948
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:108 S Edgeworth, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Industrial
St. Andrew Episcopal Church
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1956
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2105 W Market St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
St. James Presbyterian Church
Contributors:Dates:1957-1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:820 Ross Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Religious
Steele Hall
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architectDates:1953
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Bennett College Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Susan and Ogburn F. Stafford, Sr., House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954-1960
Location:Sedgefield, Guilford CountyStreet Address:4227 Wayne Rd., Sedgefield, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
Valley Park Shopping Center
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1958-1959
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Florida St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Virginia and Dallas Bright House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:Ca. 1960
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:6812 Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
WBIG Radio Station
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1966
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:2238 Battleground Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Weatherspoon Art Gallery
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1962
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
Weingarten Sporting Events
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1946
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:341 N Elm St., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
Recreational
WFMY-TV Station
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954-1955
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:Phillips Ave., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Commercial
William A. (Bill) Stern House
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:114 Wedgedale Rd., Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Residential
WUNC Television Station
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1954
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Educational
YWCA Building
Contributors:Edward Loewenstein, architect; Loewenstein-Atkinson, architectsDates:1971
Location:Greensboro, Guilford CountyStreet Address:1 YWCA Place, Greensboro, NC
Status:Standing
Type:Recreational