The Harris and Pyne Records contain drawings, project files, photographs, and personal files documenting the professional activities of the Harris and Pyne architectural and engineering firm and its predecessor firms H. Raymond Weeks, Inc., Atwood and Weeks, and Atwood and Nash. The collection is arranged into four series: Drawings, Project Files, Photographic Materials, and Personal Files. Drawings include original pencil drawings, blueprints, and other reproductions. Project files includes various materials relating to projects, including a scrapbook, newsclippings, a financial recordbook, and supplemental documents to projects. Photographic materials includes professional black and white photographs of projects. Original documentation for many of the buildings and projects of these architecture firms is no longer in existence. Lastly, personal files include certificates, membership cards, biographical notes and obituary notes.
Harris and Pyne was an architectural and engineering firm in Durham, North Carolina, from about 1958 to the 1990s, headed by engineer Wilton E. Harris and architect George C. Pyne, Jr. Its predecessor firms were T. C. Atwood (prior to 1920), Atwood & Nash, Architects and Engineers (early 1920s-early 1930s), Atwood & Weeks (1930s-1942), and H. Raymond Weeks, Inc. (1942-1957). Harris and Pyne was organized soon after H. Raymond Weeks' death in 1956. Commissions undertaken by the Harris and Pyne firm and predecessors include residences, churches, and hospitals.
Harris and Pyne was an architectural and engineering firm in Durham, North Carolina, from about 1958 to the 1990s, headed by engineer Wilton E. Harris and architect George C. Pyne, Jr. Its predecessor firms were T. C. Atwood (prior to 1920), Atwood & Nash, Architects and Engineers (early 1920s-early 1930s), Atwood & Weeks (1930s-1942), and H. Raymond Weeks, Inc. (1942-1957). Harris and Pyne was organized soon after H. Raymond Weeks' death in 1956. Commissions undertaken by the Harris and Pyne firm and predecessors include residences, churches, and hospitals.
The Harris and Pyne Records contain drawings, project files, photographs, and personal files documenting the professional activities of the Harris and Pyne architectural and engineering firm and its predecessor firms H. Raymond Weeks, Inc., Atwood and Weeks, and Atwood and Nash. The collection is arranged into four series: Drawings, Project Files, Photographic Materials, and Personal Files. Drawings include original pencil drawings, blueprints, and other reproductions. Project files includes various materials relating to projects, including a scrapbook, newsclippings, a financial recordbook, and supplemental documents to projects. Photographic materials includes professional black and white photographs of projects. Original documentation for many of the buildings and projects of these architecture firms is no longer in existence. Lastly, personal files include certificates, membership cards, biographical notes and obituary notes.
This collection is organized into four series: 1. Drawings 2. Project Files 3. Photographic Materials 4. Personal Files
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
[Identification of item], Harris and Pyne Records, MC 00114, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift of Milo Pyne, 2008 (Accession 2008.0196), 2012 (Accession 2012.0027), 2021 (Accession 2021.0036), and 2023 (Accession 2023.0109).
Processed by: Jay Chang; machine-readable finding aid created by: Jay Chang, May 2011; additional materials processed and finding aid updated by: Todd Kosmerick, 2012 January; addition processed and finding aid updated by Shima Hosseininasab, May 2021.
This collection was processed with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.
The collection is organized into three principal series:
This series contains sketches, blueprints, and other drawings, including site, floor, and design plans. Buildings represented include residences, churches, a health center, an office builiding, and an airport terminal. Most were created by the Harris and Pyne firm, although a few are by H. Raymond Weeks.
Reproduction
Reproduction
Reproduction
Reproduction
This series contains materials relating to the projects undertaken by the Harris and Pyne firm and predecessor firms H. Raymond Weeks, Inc., Atwood and Weeks, and Atwood and Nash. This series includes two scrapbooks, newsclippings, a financial recordbook, and supplemental documents related to projects. The scrapbooks consist mostly of newsclippings and several photos.
This series contains black and white photographs of projects undertaken by Harris and Pyne firm and/or predecessor firms H. Raymond Weeks, Inc., Atwood and Weeks, and Atwood and Nash. Some photographs are of completed projects including the Harry Russell residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the H. R. Weeks residence, the J.B. Anderson home, a women’s dormitory at the North Carolina College in Durham, North Carolina, the First Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the Farm Colony Building State Hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina. There are some photos of Duke University as well as Durham and Chapel Hill high schools. Photographs were taken professionally, several labeled with the name Wooten-Moulton Photographers.
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Access to physical material and digital files not available online may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room after staff review.
Some materials may not have been digitized or made available online.
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photo of drawing
Durham NC Mangum Street at Vivian
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of drawing
Durham NC Mangum Street at Vivian
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Mangum Street at Trinity
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of sketch
Durham NC Mangum Street at Trinity
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Hillsboro(ugh) Road
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of building
Field Side Entrance
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of building
Field Side Entrance
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Future Second Story and Control Tower
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of building (home Ec. Cottage to left)
Durham NC Duke Street
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of building (taken from window of warehouse across street?)
Durham NC Duke Street
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of building (detail)
Durham NC Duke Street
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Duke Street
ca. 6.5 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Washington, Geer, Corporation Streets
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Duke University Campus
ca. 7.5 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Duke University Campus
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photograph
Durham NC Duke University Campus
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Chapel Hill Street at Rigsbee
6 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Durham NC Chapel Hill Street
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photograph
Durham NC near Fayetteville Street
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
ca. 7 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Wilson NC
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
ca. 7 x 10 inches
photo of people (including T. C. Atwood at left, Mr Swartz, Bishop Cheshire at right)
Raleigh NC south end of Fayetteville Street
5.75 x 3.5 inches
photo of building
Raleigh NC south end of Fayetteville Street
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of kitchen interior
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Rocky Mount NC
ca. 7 x 10 inches
photo of building
Fayetteville NC
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of building
Chapel Hill NC
6 x 10 inches
copy of older photograph
7 x 5 inches
photo of rendering
Davidson College (now University)
ca. 6.5 x 10 inches
photo of rendering
Davidson College (now University)
ca. 6.5 x 10 inches
photo of church exterior
Greensboro NC
ca. 8 x 10 inches
photo of sanctuary interior
Greensboro NC
ca. 8 x 10 inches
This series contains ceritificates, membership cards, biographical information, obituary notices and tributes.
This collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access to digital files may require additional advanced notice.
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[Identification of item], Harris and Pyne Records, MC 00114, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.