Collections
- Lyda Collection, UNCA
- Related Oral Interviews, UNCA
- E.M. Ball Photo Collection, UNCA
- Correspondence, AAM
- Watercolors, Drawings and Blueprints, AAM, ABLS
Biographical Information
Six Associates as the name would indicate was a joint business venture with six partners that started in 1942 and based in Asheville. These members were William Waldo Dodge, Jr. Henry Irvin Gaines, Anthony Lord, William Stewart Rodgers, Erle G. Stillwell, and Charles Waddell.
This firm got its start from these six architects forming a company large enough to qualify for the many lucrative government contracts available during the Second World War. Several of the members had been denied government projects because their practice was deemed too small. This proved a wise and effective strategy. With this larger resource base the Six Associates received multiple defense work projects from the government. The association continued after the wars end and eventually became one of the leading architectural design firms of the southeast. The association's individual members started independent work about five years after 1945. In 1951 a new office building was built to house the original six partners and their separate employees. Six associates profited from the development boom in the southeast following the war and is to this day a prominent and active architectural company.
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Related Oral Interviews
The Buildings
Administration Building American Enka Corporation (Ca. 1956-1957)
Gerber Products Company Plant (1966)
Memorial Mission Hospital (1950-1952)
Montreat Commercial and Social Complex (Ca. 1964)
Moore General Hospital (1942)
Pardee Memorial Hospital (Ca. 1957)
Western Carolina University Library (Ca. 1957)
Inventory of Architecture
Selected Correspondence
Typological Motifs in Six Associates' Work
Bibliography
American Architects' Directory (1970).
Biographical Clipping File, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina.
Charlotte V. Brown, interview with Anthony Lord, September 11, 1981. Notes in Charlotte V. Brown Collection, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Charlotte V. Brown, interview with William W. Dodge III, September 4, 1981. Notes in Charlotte V. Brown Collection, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Jane Hall, "Founding Fathers NCAIA, 1913-1954," Southern Architect (1954), reproduced in C. David Jackson and Charlotte V. Brown, History of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1913-1998 (1998).
"Anthony Lord," Who's Who in America (1976-1977).
North Carolina Chapter Collections, American Institute of Architects Archives, Washington, D. C.
"On Top of Old Smoky," Interiors (May, 1966).
Southern Architect (Sept. and Nov. 1957).
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