Joy Lee Apartment Building and Annex

United States historic place


Joy Lee Apartment Building and Annex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Front of Joy Lee Apartment Building
34°2′14″N 77°53′30″W / 34.03722°N 77.89167°W / 34.03722; -77.89167
Area	less than one acre
Built	1945 (1945), 1948
Architect	Lewis, Grover L.; Bordeaux, William W.
Architectural style	Modern Movement, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	97000256^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 3, 1997

Joy Lee Apartment Building and Annex is a historic apartment building located at Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina. The original building was built in 1945, and is a two-story, double-pile concrete block building covered with stucco. It features fanciful concrete balustrades and walls, and an Art Deco-inspired centered portico over the front entryway added in 1957. A two-story double-pile Modern Movement style Annex comprising four apartments was built in 1948.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Elizabeth W. Keane (November 1996). "Joy Lee Apartment Building and Annex" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.