1941
The Clinton Cilley House
869 7th Street NW, Hickory NC
Built by M. G. Crouch Lumber and Building Company. Sold in 1989 to Suzanne H. and Robert T. Hambrick Jr. Sold in 2018 to Elizabeth P. and Harold W. Marvin III.
Dallas Carroll
AbeeAIA
(1910–2003)
Abee's father was Solomon Lafayette Abee who started in Hickory in 1935 as an architect. Abee was in the first graduating class of the old Hickory High School which became the Catawba Arts and Science Center. He earned a BS in Architectural Engineering from NCSU in 1931 and opened a solo office in 1935. During WWII, he worked for the Oak Ridge TN office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill. He was asked to go with them to New York but he decided to return to Hickory instead. He partnered with Aiji Tashiro in 1948 then went solo in 1952. Abee and Tashiro were the original architects for Lutheridge in Arden NC. In 1958 he partnered with James Elbert Biggs and went solo again in 1963.
Abee designed many buildings, including the Wildacres Conference Center near Little Switzerland NC. His son is architect Dallas Carroll Abee Jr., who had George Matsumoto as a design instructor at NCSU. His advice to those starting out in the field of architecture, "Unless you really want to work long, hard hours, don't do it. You have to work hard to be successful in this business."
Sources include: D. Carroll Abee Jr.; Virginia Faust; M. G. Crouch Lumber and Building Company.