Charles (Charlie) Hussey Boney (November 16, 1924 in New Hanover, NC – May 16, 2014 Wilmington, North Carolina) was an American architect.

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has the third highest number of Modernist residences in the country. Modernist design became popular in the U.S. in the 1930s, primarily in

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, and expanded east through the 1960s. Charlie Boney was one of the architects who contributed to the state's design heritage during that time by influencing the modernist movements and designing modernist houses for people. Boney contributed by designing modernist houses and influencing the movement with his work.

Early life

Education and war

Boney grew up in Wilmington and attended

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. Following this, he went to

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for one year and then served in

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for four years in the US Army Combat Engineers starting in 1943, where he built bridges in advance of Patton's march towards the

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and then to Berlin. After the war, he went back to school and earned a BA in Architecture from

's School of Design.

Career

Boney then went to work with his brothers and father at Leslie N. Boney Architects in

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. Boney started to take control of the firm, and the firm grew to a regional firm from a local firm and became one of the largest in the state under the new name, LS3P.

Projects

Boney was interested in Health Care Design, he designed many hospitals including the New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Pender Memorial Hospital,

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, and Cape Fear Memorial Hospital, of which he was chief architect for all of them. Other projects of his include First Bank Headquarters, Hoggard High School, Laney High School, Brogden Hall, Alderman Elementary School, and UNCW's Kenan Auditorium. Some other projects of his include: 1952 – The David Wilson House, 1801 Hawthorne Road,

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. 3500 Square Feet 1968 – The Leslie N. Boney, Jr. Residence, his brother's, 2305 Gillette Drive,

. 5000 Square Feet. 1969 – The Charles H. Boney Residence, his own, 2105 Gillette Drive,

. 4000 Square Feet. 1975 – The Sigmund Bear Cottage, 94 Beach Road South.

Boney and the AIA

Boney was an advocate for the profession of architecture, he held over a dozen

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(AIA) positions at the local, state, and national levels. He served as President of AIA of North Carolina in 1974. In 2003, he won AIA of North Carolina's F. Carter Williams Gold Medal for career achievement. In 2014, he was awarded the North Carolina's Order of the Long Leaf Pine. Boney won an AIANC and SARC Design Award in 1955 for the Little Chapel on the Boardwalk in

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Personal life

Death

Boney died on May 16, 2014, at his home in

Family

Boney's father, Leslie Norwood Boney was also an architect, and he founded the firm Boney worked at during his career. His mother was Mary Lily Hussey Boney, and his sister was Sue Boney Ives. Boney had three daughters, Elizabeth Boney Jenkins, Lynne Boney, and Susan Boney Coleman.

References

Charles Boney
"North Carolina Modernist Houses" Retrieved October 23, 2016 * nited States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"Genealogybank Obituaries" Retrieved October 23, 2016 {{DEFAULTSORT:Boney, Charlie 1924 births 2014 deaths Architects from North Carolina North Carolina State University alumni 20th-century American architects People from Wilmington, North Carolina New Hanover High School alumni