Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach....

 native Alan McCullough Jr. (?-July 13, 1993) was a 20th century modernist architect who found popularlity after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 for his Virginia residences. His work in Richmond

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

, Norfolk

Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach....

 and the Northern Neck

Northern Neck

The Northern Neck is the northernmost of three peninsulas on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This peninsula is bounded by the Potomac River on the north and the Rappahannock River on the south. It encompasses the following Virginia counties: Lancaster,...

 married modern design and planning with local elements like colonial brick and buff-colored mortar. Like other regional architects such as Virginia Beach's Lewis Rightmier, Richmond's E. Tucker Carlton and Alexandria's Charles M. Goodman

Charles M. Goodman

Charles M. Goodman was an American architect who made a name for his modern designs in suburban Washington, D.C. after World War II. While his work has a regional feel, he ignored the colonial revival look so popular in Virginia...

, McCullough took the open plans, striking geometry and low profiles of houses by Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...

 and built houses with regional elements appropriate to Virginia's climate

Climate

Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods...

 and history. McCullough's trademark features includes terrazzo

Terrazzo

Terrazzo is a composite material poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of marble, quartz, granite, glass or other suitable chips, sprinkled or unsprinkled, and poured with a binder that is cementitious, chemical or a combination of both...

 floors and raised fireplaces with levitating hearths.

Notable schools by McCullough include Richmond's Collegiate School

Collegiate School (Richmond, Virginia)

Collegiate School is a preparatory school for boys and girls located in Richmond, Virginia. The student body of Collegiate comprises about 1,500 total students from Kindergarten through 12th Grade...

 and the annex to the City of Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

's Blackwell Schoolhttp://www.richmond.k12.va.us/indexnew/sub/history/blackwell_primary.cfm. McCullough also designed buildings for C&P Telephone, United Virginia Bank and The Tides Inn

The Tides Inn

The Tides Inn is a luxury waterfront resort just off the Rappahannock River in Irvington, Virginia. It was opened in 1947 by entrepreneur E.A. Stephens, and is now owned by Enchantment Group and managed by Carters Creek Management. It is a leading East Coast resort on Virginia's Northern Neck,...

. McCullough retired in 1972 to Lancaster County, Virginia in the Northern Neck, and continued to work. He died at age 84 in a Richmond hospital.http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/timesdispatch/access/614380661.html?dids=614380661:614380661&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+13%2C+1993&author=&pub=Richmond+Times+-+Dispatch&edition=&startpage=B-2&desc=ARCHITECT+FROM+IRVINGTON+DIES+HERE+AT+84

McCullough's father named the Virginia Beach, Virginia subdivision Alanton after him.