{"nrhp_refnum":"94001088","name":"Paschal House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3334 Alamance Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.82822522300006,"lon":-78.66303641099995,"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-level Wrightian residence of wood and stone on a 2.74-acre wooded lot at the edge of a plateau in the Country Club Hills subdivision in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1950.","why_significant":"The house is nominated under Criterion C as the work of a master with high artistic value. It shows a sensitivity to site, innovative use of materials, subtle form and plan, and passive climatic control, and it draws on Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture. It is one of a small group of modernist houses produced by School of Design faculty in Raleigh in the 1950s and 1960s.","narrative":"Built in 1950 in Raleigh's Country Club Hills subdivision, the Paschal House is a single-level stone and wood residence set at the edge of a wooded plateau. Designed by James W. Fitzgibbon, an associate professor at the North Carolina State University School of Design, it was commissioned by Dr. George Paschal and his wife Beth. The house is noted for its Wrightian character: low-sloped gables with deep overhangs, random ashlar granite walls, and a living room built around a massive central stone fireplace with a sunken conversation pit. Glazed walls on both sides of the living room let the roof appear to float, and the house is oriented to the sun for passive heating and cooling. Interiors use veneered plywood, cork floors, and slate flagstones, and radiant heat runs through the foundation slab. It is regarded as a distinctive example of the modernist houses produced by the School of Design faculty, and it is valued for its artistic design, its handworked materials, and its site integration.","period_of_significance":"1950","architect_builder":"James W. Fitzgibbon (architect); Davidson and Jones Construction Company (contractor)","architectural_style":"Wrightian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house has been maintained well and is little altered; the owners have lived in it continuously since it was built.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.939813-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7185/47718585/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001088.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001088/8d36215c43-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001088/8d36215c43-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"BoBSerrone","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_of_Paschal_House,_Raleigh_NC_(House_no_longer_present).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">BoBSerrone</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_of_Paschal_House,_Raleigh_NC_(House_no_longer_present).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718585","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016096"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/paschal-house-94001088/"}