Sep 21, 1994
National Register of Historic Places - Paschal House (Early Modern Architecture Associated with NCSU School of Design Faculty MPS)
Statement of Significance: Built in 1950, the Paschal House is a graceful stone and frame Wrightian house constructed for Dr. George and Mrs. Beth Paschal to the designs of James W. Fitzgibbon, an associate professor at the (then) new School of Design at North Carolina State University. Distinctively picturesque, the house is one of a small group of innovative modernist houses produced by a highly-talented School of Design faculty during the 1950s and 1960s (See Multiple Property Designation Form for "Early Modern Architecture in Raleigh Associated with the Faculty of the North Carolina State University School of Design, Raleigh, North Carolina"). The Paschal House is being nominated under Criterion C, as the work of a master and for its high artistic value. It exhibits a sensitivity to site, innovative use of materials, subtlety of form and plan, and a degree of passive climatic control that is quite different from the eclectic houses being built in Raleigh in that period. But in contrast to the more Usonian design that Fitzgibbon earlier produced for the Fadum House (NR), the Paschal House is also more evocative of Wright's organic architecture in its flowing massing and use of stone and other hand-worked materials.
National Register of Historic Places - Paschal House (Early Modern Architecture Associated with NCSU School of Design Faculty MPS)
Statement of Significance: Built in 1950, the Paschal House is a graceful stone and frame Wrightian house constructed for Dr. George and Mrs. Beth Paschal to the designs of James W. Fitzgibbon, an associate professor at the (then) new School of Design at North Carolina State University. Distinctively picturesque, the house is one of a small group of innovative modernist houses produced by a highly-talented School of Design faculty during the 1950s and 1960s (See Multiple Property Designation Form for "Early Modern Architecture in Raleigh Associated with the Faculty of the North Carolina State University School of Design, Raleigh, North Carolina"). The Paschal House is being nominated under Criterion C, as the work of a master and for its high artistic value. It exhibits a sensitivity to site, innovative use of materials, subtlety of form and plan, and a degree of passive climatic control that is quite different from the eclectic houses being built in Raleigh in that period. But in contrast to the more Usonian design that Fitzgibbon earlier produced for the Fadum House (NR), the Paschal House is also more evocative of Wright's organic architecture in its flowing massing and use of stone and other hand-worked materials.
Sep 21, 1994
Posted Date
Sep 01, 2023
Historical Record Date
Sep 21, 1994
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places
