Small House (Raleigh, North Carolina)
The Small House, also known as the Milton Small House, is a modernist house built on a steep hillside on the Lake Boone Trail in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 1951, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1][2]
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| Location | 310 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°48′59″N 78°39′55″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1951 |
| Built by | Walser, Frank |
| Architect | Small, G. Milton |
| Architectural style | Miesian, Other |
| MPS | Early Modern Architecture Associated with NCSU School of Design Faculty MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 94001086[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 21, 1994 |
From the 1940s to the 1960s, the faculty of the North Carolina State College School of Design included several modernist architects, including G. Milton Small, FAIA (1916-1992). Small had studied under Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology before moving to Raleigh in 1948. He designed the Small House as his own family residence.[3]
Small used builder Frank Walser to construct the house.[4] Small went into business with Walser for a time, building homes in the Drewry Hills neighborhood of Raleigh.[5]
In its original from, the Small House was "a compact T-shaped, flat-roofed frame box."[3] Most of the home's public living spaces were combined in "one long, carefully proportioned rectangular room that opened with sliding doors onto a full-width, screened porch."[3] The interior included a variety of exotic woods. A number of the home's design elements, including "the definition of space as roof and floor separated by exposed posts, and the large public area that opens onto semi-outdoor spaces," are considered to be typical of the Miesian style.[3] The Raleigh Historic Development Commission has called Small House "the first structure in Raleigh to evoke the design concepts of Mies."[2][6]
A 1961 addition was designed by Small, adding bedrooms to the sides of the house and separate living and dining rooms.[3]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- "Small House". Raleigh Historic Development Commission. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
- "Raleigh: A Capital City -- Small House". National Park Service. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
- "2010 Modernist Home Tour Destinations Unveiled". Triangle Modernist Houses. June 15, 2010. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
- "George Milton Small, Jr". Triangle Modernist Houses. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
- David R. Black (April 1994). "Small House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
