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Eddie Belk
OWNER
BELK ARCHITECTURE
DURHAM
Education: bachelor's, N.C. State
Favorite architect: Harwell Hamilton Harris, a famed California home designer who later became an N.C. State professor. "When he was in his 20s, Frank Lloyd Wright identified him as someone doing worthwhile work. But he was so humble, pleasant and direct."
Where some see blight, Eddie Belk sees beauty. He has made a career of rehabilitating old buildings. The Rowan County native loves the North Carolina-ness of tobacco warehouses and textile mills - their bricks fired from local clay and the heart-pine planks that cover their floors -...