Two tour days in Durham, NC; Vernacular Architectural Forum,VAF 2016

I was recently selected to present a paper on Field Notes during the Vernacular Architectural Forum, which took place the first week of June in Durham, North Carolina. As part of the event – as it is customarily – there are two intense days of touring around preselected areas to experience first hand vernacular examples and communities. 

Here are a few sketches I made during those days. 

West Grove Friends Meeting House (1915) Snow Camp, Alamance County

Old Brick Church [Clapp Church] (1813 original, reconstruction ca. 1840-1946)

Spatial axonometric, floor plan and section of Old Brick Church [Clapp Church] (1813 original, reconstruction ca. 1840-1946)

Mendenhall Store; Jamestown, Guilford County

Mendenhall Barn; Jamestown, Guilford County


O’Briant Grocery Store, 613 Holloway St. 


Lloyd House (1956); 126 Nelson St.