Art Moderne Residence

Durham, North Carolina

Clyde Lloyd built this house himself from 1952 to 1956 (with a little help from his friends) for his wife Eleanor from mail-order blueprints. The house is unusual; a late application of the Art Moderne style, a definite deviation from the other brick ranches in the block of a traditionally African-American neighborhood. Residences designed in this modernistic style were rare; mostly this streamlining was applied to airplanes, ships, trains and cars during the 1930s.