James Nelson
SherrillAIA
(1926–2012)
Sherrill was born in Winston-Salem. He attended Wiley Elementary then graduated from Reynolds High School in 1943. Between high school and NCSU, he spent three years in the Navy and was most impressed with the architecture of Cuba during five visits to that island. He entered the NCSU Architectural Engineering program in 1946 and graduated from what became the School of Design in 1951. After interning for several Raleigh architects, he worked for Clemmer and Horton in Hickory from 1953-1958 where four of his buildings won AIANC Awards. He did many buildings at Lenoir Rhyne College. He started his own firm in 1958. Sherrill won a 1962 AIANC award for a Northwestern Bank branch in Hickory. He designed an addition to Gardner Hall (now Thomas Hall) on the NCSU Campus in 1965 that was completed in 1967.
A lifelong artist, his works have been on display all around North Carolina, examples above.
The 2003 reunion of the 1951 Class of the NCSU School of Design. From left to right: Jim Freehof, Peter Norris, Frank DePasquale, Bill Sigmon, Calvin Howell, Jim Sherrill, and Jim Brandt.
Read Article on Sherrill from the Hickory Daily Record, March 1965.
Read Sherrill Project List
Sources include: Ron Crider; Gail Jodon; James Sherrill II; James Sherrill III; daughter Fran Sherrill Bolick.
