A Milton Small Gem!
The 1952
Walser House Tour
Saturday, August 23, 10am to 2pm
3350 Alamance Drive, Raleigh NC
Proceeds benefit NCModernist, a 501C3 nonprofit documenting, preserving, and promoting North Carolina residential architecture.
It's an midcentury architectural treasure in Country Club Hills, an area known for midcentury teardowns. Don't let this be the next one! Designed by Raleigh architect Milton Small, who studied with the internationally famous Mies van der Rohe, this is one of the few Small houses in great shape still standing in North Carolina.
Everywhere you turn, a magical Modernist experience. There's a main floor with studio apartment below, plus a separate studio apartment built in 2018 with private entrance. If you love it, and you will love it, you can buy it. There are few houses in Raleigh left like this.
Milton Small graduated from the University of Oklahoma in architecture and another in engineering. He later attended the Illinois Institute of Technology studying
under
Mies van der Rohe. In Chicago he worked for Perkins Will and Hudgins Thompson Ball. At the recommendation of
Henry Kamphoefner, who was his professor at Oklahoma, Small relocated to North Carolina in 1948 to be Chief Designer for
William Deitrick, at the time Raleigh's largest
architectural firm. While there he and
Matthew Nowicki designed the 1947 Carolina Country Club, the first
club in the country of Modernist design. Small left Deitrick in 1949 to start
his own firm. Small and
Frank Walser
worked on many projects together, including this house. Small is also noted for designing the NCSU Student Center, WRAL-TV studios,
The 1960 Raleigh City Hall, and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, among other
significant projects:
a. Home Security Life building in Durham, standing but endangered. Details here.
b. 3515 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, destroyed in 2016. Details here.
c. His own office at 105 Brooks Avenue, Raleigh, in good condition leased to NC State.
Tickets:
The Fine Print:
Tickets are not mailed; your name will be on a list at registration.
Once payment is made, there are no refunds for any reason except for tour cancellation.
However, you can transfer tickets to others - just have them ask for the tickets in your name at registration.
To protect floors, please remove shoes or bring booties before entering the house.
Please do not attend if you are experiencing COVID symptoms or have tested positive within a week of the tour.
Participants must sign a liability waiver before entering.
Architects can get self-reported CEU hours if arranged in advance with the AIA.
Participants are welcome to take photos inside and outside.
Strollers are not allowed, but carried children are free. No food, drink, or smoking inside. Bathrooms are not available onsite.
For tour inquiries, please contact Devra Dubroff, devra@usmodernist.org.
Proceeds benefit NCModernist, a 501C3 nonprofit documenting, preserving, and promoting North Carolina residential architecture.