Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Administrative wing vault (left); corridor looing east (right). Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Photo by Heather Fearnbach.
Goodman Harmon King (1879-1951), founder of Randolph Savings and Loan; and Levin Ferree Ross (1886-1970), longtime president.
Architect Alvis George (1929-2001), of J. Hyatt Hammond Associates, designed the Randolph Savings and Loan Branch Bank with intern Kemp Mooney and engineer Walter Preimats. George is pictured here in 1995 (left); early in his career (right top) and in the early 1970s (right bottom).
Asheboro's Central Hotel stood on the present-day site of the Randolph Savings and Loan. It partially burned in 1954 and was demolished later that year.
The house of Henry Branson Elliott (1805-1863) stood on the present-day site of Randolph Savings and Loan. It later became the Central Hotel.
Read the Landmark Designation Report
Read the Landmark Designation Resolution
Randolph Savings and Loan Association Branch Bank at 115 South Fayetteville Street in Asheboro possesses the requisite special architectural significance and integrity for local historic landmark designation due to its distinctive Modernist design. Architect Alvis O. George Jr. of J. Hyatt Hammond Associates; Kemp Mooney, an intern at the firm; and Asheboro engineer Walter Preimats led the design team for the four-story, flat-roofed, concrete, steel, and brick building, the tallest in downtown Asheboro. The building was the first of four Modernist branch banks erected between 1963 and 1972 that dramatically altered the downtown streetscape.1 The monumental scale and cantilevered form manifested the bank’s prosperity and progressive spirit and demonstrated its investment in the community. The striking edifice exhibits the era’s optimism in the use of new materials, construction techniques, and spatial arrangements. The expressed structural components, expansive aluminum-frame curtain walls, open lobby and teller counter, highly visible vault, and drive-through and walk-up teller windows reflect the banking industry’s increased focus on efficiency, transparency, and customer service during the mid-twentieth century. Randolph Savings and Loan Association Branch Bank maintains integrity of location, setting, feeling, association, design, materials, and workmanship from its period of construction. The bank contributes to the significance of the Downtown Asheboro Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
Find out more about architect Alvis O. George, Jr., here.
