RTP-area local music and culture

[Bo Williams <bowilliams AT gmail.com>]

Yes, but someone was living in (and maintaining) your house since
1962. The problem with the Catalano house is that it was empty and not
maintained (or maintained poorly) for quite a long time.

On 10/11/05, John Iwaniszek <Not AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> grady AT ibiblio.org (grady) wrote in 434C1921.1000406 AT ibiblio.org:">news:434C1921.1000406 AT ibiblio.org:
>
> >
> > John I wrote:
> >> Chris Calloway wrote:
> >>
> >>> help. what was the name of the modernist house in
> >>> raleigh that was abandoned and falling down? it may
> >>> have already been demolished. it was on a wooded lot
> >>> and the roof had caved in. i think it was designed by
> >>> some ncsu designo in the 40s or 50s, maybe that polish
> >>> guy who designed dorton arena? there was a really nice
> >>> website devoted to finding a preservationist for the
> >>> house.
> >>>
> >>> there's a matsumoto house in chapel hill off country
> >>> club that's practically ready to fall over.
> >>>
> >>> 3
> >>>
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> >>
> >> It's the Catalano House (no longer) located on Catalano Drive off of
> >> Ridge Road.
> >>
> >> http://www.jetsetmodern.com/catalano.htm
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> >>
> > Preservation NC would want to know about any opportunities to preserve
> > more 50s-era NC Design School houses, since they're feeling kinda
> > shitty about the demise of the Catalano house: http://www.presnc.org/
> >
> > Did you see the article in Dwell about the moving of the Raleigh
> > Matsumoto house to Bahama?
> >
> > (not online, annoyingly)
> >
> > & actually, you should snap some photos of the one in Chapel Hill &
> > email them to Dwell.  http://www.dwellmag.com
> >
> > Or contact Nathan Wieler -- He'd probably be interested:
> >
> > http://www.wieler.com/
> >
> > (He's the owner (unless he's managed to sell it already - I heard it
> > was on the market) of the first Dwell Home, out near Pittsboro. He's
> > now in business selling similarly-modernist prefab homes.)
> >
> > Ross
>
>
> The problem I have with this whole thing is that if these houses served
> their function, then they would not be decaying or fallen to disrepair.
> My house is vintage 1962 single-family-detached and it is highly
> livable, in good repair, and appreciating in value.
>
> I get that the Catalano house, et al. are objets d'arte, but why didn't
> they survive as houses?  Wouldn't Bucky sigh and concede that form
> somehow didn't serve function in these ephemeral dwellings?
>
>
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