Fayetteville Modern Architecture Survey, April 2009

MdM Historical Consultants, Inc.

Introduction: "The Fayetteville Modern Architecture Survey documented approximately seventy mid- to late twentieth-century residential, commercial, and institutional buildings designed in the modernist idiom in order to establish historic and architectural contexts for the period. The survey was funded by the City of Fayetteville with a matching grant from the federal Historic Preservation Fund, which was administered by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (HPO). Cynthia de Miranda of MdM Historical Consultants, Inc. (MdM) acted as principal investigator for the project. Jennifer Martin Mitchell, also of MdM, served as a project historian. Ms. de Miranda and Ms. Mitchell completed all fieldwork, photography, and file organization, and wrote this project report. Mr. Bruce Daws, Historic Properties Manager for the City of Fayetteville, was the local coordinator for the project and Claudia R. Brown, Architectural Survey Coordinator for the HPO, reviewed all documentation. In addition, Donna Fields, Facilities Planner for the Cumberland County School System, and David Nash of the City of Fayetteville Planning Department, provided invaluable information and maps to assist with the survey... This project included both a windshield survey, to create a list of properties that merited intensive survey, and the intensive survey of those properties. Prior to completing the windshield survey, MdM contacted Bruce Daws and the Fayetteville Historic Resources Commission to determine which resources had been identified as potential survey sites for the project and to select a time period that the survey would cover. The period spanning 1945 through 1975 was preliminarily selected for purposes of the windshield survey with the understanding that the survey period would be refined based on findings... MdM completed the windshield survey in February 2008 and selected fifty-three properties for intensive survey. Properties were selected on the basis of design and architectural integrity. MdM sought to create a survey list with a broad selection of property types, dates, and styles within the Modernist idiom; priority was given to properties with the highest integrity or properties that were the only identified examples of a given type or style. The final list included Fayetteville State University and Methodist University, counting each as a single property but understanding that a few to several buildings at each campus would be intensively surveyed. In the end, the total number of intensively surveyed buildings was sixty seven; two structures were intensively surveyed as well. During the windshield survey, MdM refined the survey period to 1930 through 1969 due to the high number of Modernist properties identified. Four intensively surveyed properties post-date this period; they were thought to be 1960s properties during the windshield and intensive surveys, but later research revealed that they date to the very early 1970s. Because properties from the 1970s were not systematically chosen, the survey period remains 1930-1969. Michelle Michael’s 2001 survey update report included context for community development through 1951; the community development context in this report, therefore, begins in 1950, picking up generally where Michael’s 2001 report left off. The architecture context encompasses the entire survey period of 1930 to 1969 because of its specific focus on Modernism." Funding was provided in part by a 2008 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Fayetteville (project number NC-08-013) administered by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 37-08-21738) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Fayetteville, North Carolina is a Certified Local Government.

Fayetteville Modern Architecture Survey, April 2009

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