The J. A. Jones Construction Company acquired two lots at the corner of E. Morehead and McDowell Streets in 1922, a key location in the expansion of the Dilworth suburb. J. A. Jones formed a real estate company with his sons to develop the apartment building, which was designed by architect Willard G. Rogers, who had previously been in partnership with architect C. C. Hook. The company and the building were given the name Addison, J. A. Jones’s middle name. See Charlotte Historic Properties Report for the Addison Apartments by William H. Huffman, Dan L. Morrill, and Sherry J. Joines (1994, 1997) at http://www.cmhpf.org/S&Rs%20Alphabetical%20Order/surveys&raddison.htm.

The 4-story Adler Brothers Building was announced in the Kinston Daily Free Press as one of eastern North Carolina’s largest department stores, with a front of glass and polychrome terra cotta. Architect Liston Mallard was directly involved, as “eastern manager” for architect Rogers.

The Renaissance Revival style edifice is faced in Indiana limestone.

The school was located on Franklin Street, southwest of the intersection with Columbia Street, where University Square is currently. It became Chapel Hill High School in 1936, and was demolished in the 1970s.

The East Duke Building is the right, tan-colored building pictured in the bottom right corner of the image.

The brick church with tile roof is an unusual use of the Mission style in a church in Piedmont North Carolina.

The immense residence called Four Acres was built for tobacco industrialist Benjamin N. Duke on the site of his previous residence. The North Carolina Mutual Insurance building now occupies the elevated, prominent site.

Built for an associate of the Duke family, Greystone is one of the few examples surviving of Durham’s pre-1920 mansions.

Jarvis Hall is one of the most intact of several buildings designed at present East Carolina University by Hook and Rogers and Herbert W. Simpson, typically in red brick with red tile roofs. The college was established in 1907, and these architects designed the earliest part of the campus.

In 1899 and 1906 the Manufacturers’ Record carried news of Hook’s firms designing office buildings for John Love, which may be these.

The building of buff colored brick is one of the state’s chief examples of Egyptian Revival style, with lotus columns and a frieze of wings. It recalls the imposing Masonic Building (1914) in Charlotte planned by Hook and Rogers.

The imposing Egyptian Revival style Masonic temple was among the state’s premier examples of its style and type. It was razed in 1987, and its massive lotus columns were reused in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

The eclectic house and its outbuildings constitute the principal ensemble of fine stonework by Robert Franklin Lynn, in this case in an architect-designed house built for a leading white citizen. The complex began with a simpler house built for J. J. Misenhimer, but it was greatly altered as the residence of industrialist Augustus N. James who moved to Mount Pleasant from Charlotte. He employed the Charlotte architectural firm of Hook and Rogers to redesign the house in a combination of Craftsman and Colonial Revival modes. Its special character derives from the abundant use of Lynn’s stonework for the foundation, porches, outbuildings, and a retaining wall as well as a fireplace.

Among the projects cited to Rogers in the Manufacturers’ Record was the 13-story National Bank in Fayetteville, in association with Stiles S. Dixon (Manufacturers’ Record July 13, 1922). The Fayetteville Observer reported on June 27 that the company planned to build a 10 or 12-story bank, and that on display was a picture of a bank building “drawn by Willard G. Rogers of Charlotte and Stiles S. Dixon of Fayetteville, and presented to the bank,” giving an idea of the future building. This project evidently stalled. A short time later, the 10-story National Bank of Fayetteville (1923-1926) was built from designs by Charles C. Hartmann of Greensboro. The building was 10 stories tall. Whether the 1922 design influenced its design is unknown.

The large hotel is typical of the era in fireproof construction covered in red brick with classical details. It was named for “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” the figure much celebrated in local lore in a county and region settled by Highland Scots in the 18^th century.

In 1921, several local businessmen formed the Rankin Apartments Company, which proposed to build an 8-story, modern apartment building for which Rogers drew the plans. The Charlotte News of March 16, 1921, referred to it as the “Million Dollar Apartment House” with “many new features.” It is not clear whether the project was accomplished.

Spencer Hall is the principal surviving building by Hook and Sawyer at present University of North Carolina Greensboro (the State Normal and Industrial College), where Hook also planned other buildings including an auditorium, a library, and other dormitories. When completed it was described as largest women’s dormitory in the country under one roof. The Julius Isaac Foust Papers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro University Archives and Manuscripts includes correspondence with the firm of Hook and Rogers (1910s) and Thomas Sears (1920s) about campus buildings and landscaping.

The West Duke Building is the left, tan-colored building pictured in the bottom right corner of the image.

Rogers designed the shingled, gambrel roofed dwelling as his and his wife’s residence.