James N. Sherrill Architectural Drawings 1956-1968

James N. Sherrill was an American Institute of Architects (AIA) architect who was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1925. He graduated from Reynolds High School in 1943 and spent three years in the Navy before beginning the Architectural Engineering program at North Carolina State University in 1946. He graduated from what became the School of Design in 1951. After interning for several Raleigh architects, he worked for Clemmer and Horton in Hickory, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1958. Four of his buildings designed while there won American Institute of Architects North Carolina (AIANC) awards. Sherrill started his own firm in 1958. He won another AIANC design award in 1962 for a Northwestern Bank branch in Hickory. He designed an addition to Gardner Hall (now Thomas Hall) on the North Carolina State University campus in 1965 that was completed in 1967.

Aesthetics were an important facet of Sherrill's life both in his work and during his leisure hours. His hobby was painting, and he achieved considerable recognition in the North Carolina art world. His paintings have been shown in Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Asheville, Greensboro, Statesville, Blowing Rock and Hickory. He made both two-dimensional and three-dimensional painting in what would probably be described as the abstract and abstract-impressionist schools.

Sherrill passed away on 2012 May 9.

The James N. Sherrill Architectural Drawings contain the architectural drawings of James N. Sherrill from 1956 to 1968 with most buildings located in Hickory, North Carolina but a few in other locations such as Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Most of the drawings are for homes and residences of local families. However, one set shows the drawings for the Addition to Gardner Hall at North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh in 1964.

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[Identification of item], James N. Sherrill Architectural Drawings, MC 00476, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

This collection is a part of the Triangle Modernist Houses Collection.

Gift of Fran Bolick, March 2013 (Accession no. 2013.0064)

Processed by Meaghan Lanier, May 2013