{"nrhp_refnum":"94001087","name":"Ritcher House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3039 Churchill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.80560444300005,"lon":-78.67719918599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-09-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story wood frame Usonian-style house on a wooded lot off Churchill Road in the Sunset Hills Extended Subdivision in west Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1950.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the first innovative modern residences created by faculty of the new School of Design at North Carolina State University. It is regarded as the work of architect George Matsumoto, who was 27 at the time, and it applies Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian techniques with high artistic value. Contemporary architectural publications documented the design.","narrative":"Built in 1950 on a deep, wooded lot in west Raleigh, the Ritcher House is a one-story wood frame and post-and-beam dwelling laid out on a six-foot module. Its flat and shed roofs, deep eaves, and clerestory windows reflect Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses of the 1930s and 1940s. The house has Cherokee-red concrete floors with radiant heating pipes, redwood exterior boards, and a fully glazed rear wall that opens onto a sunken brick terrace. George Matsumoto, then 27 and an assistant professor at the new School of Design at North Carolina State College, designed it for Paul and June Ritcher. Contractor Frank Walser built it for $19,145. The house is regarded as an early Raleigh modern residence of high design quality, and it was published in House and Home and Quality Budget Homes in 1952.","period_of_significance":"1950","architect_builder":"George Matsumoto (architect); Frank Walser (contractor)","architectural_style":"Wrightian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored interior spaces mostly to original appearance by recent owners after reversing earlier alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.691355-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/7185/47718583/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001087.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718583","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritcher_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7336646"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/ritcher-house-94001087/"}