MC 00087 Preliminary Inventory to the Eric G. Flannagan Papers, 1922 - 1989

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Acquisitions Information

Gift of Stephen G. Flannagan, 2007 (Accession 2007-0371), 2008 (Accession 2008-0243).

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[Identification of item], Eric G. Flannagan Papers, MC 87, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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Biographical Note

Eric G. Flannagan, Sr. (1892-1970) was an architect and engineer practicing most of his life in North Carolina. He specialized in institutional buildings, especially hospitals and schools, but his work also included houses, churches, stores, and offices.

Eric G. Flannagan, Sr., was born on July 18, 1892, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He received technical training at the Miller boarding school in Albemarle, Virginia, from which he was a high school graduate in 1912. He graduated as a draftsman from corespondence school in 1914. He married Beryl Morris on June 26, 1915. Flannagan gained on-the-job training as a draftsman and mechanical engineer in New York and Virginia before settling in Henderson, North Carolina, in 1922.

Flannagan established an architecture and engineering firm that same year. He was a registered architect and professional engineer in both North Carolina and Virginia. Most of the buildings he designed were in North Carolina, but some were also constructed in the state of his birth. The firm specialized in institutional buildings, especially hospitals and schools, but work also included houses, churches, stores, and offices. Governor Bob Scott appointed Flannagan to the North Carolina Architectural Examination and Registration Board, for which he served as vice president in 1955-1956. He retired from his firm on December 31, 1964, leaving it's continued operation to his sons Eric G. Flannagan, Jr., and Stephen G. Flannagan. The elder Flannagan continued to serve as a consultant until he died on April 15, 1970.

Among the prominent buildings designed by Flannagan were the First United Methodist Church in Henderson, the Henderson High School, the Randolph County Hospital in Asheboro, Asheboro High School, Roses 5-10-25 store and offices in Henderson, and municipal buildings in Henderson and Roanoke Rapids. He designed several buildings for East Carolina University in Greenville over a twenty-year period.

Scope and Content Note

Contained in this collection are project files and drawings on buildings designed by Eric G. Flannagan and the firm Eric G. Flannagan and Sons, Architects and Engineers. Documents on all of the hundreds of buildings designed by the firm could not be collected because of their large volume, and the materials in this collection represents a sampling of the buildings designed by Flannagan and his company. They primarily date from the time period when the senior Flannagan was most active (1922-1949). The files and drawings that date from the 1960s and 1980s primarily represent additions or alterations to buildings designed during the earlier time period. Several drawings and other records of the Asheboro hospital and buildings at East Carolina University had been given by Stephen G. Flannagan to those institutions prior to his gift to North Carolina State University.

The Flannagan firm originally kept track of this documentation by file numbers, five-digit numbers beginning with a letter and then containing four numerals. The letters match the following code.

Additional information about buildings documented in the records listed below has been provided by the archival staff. It mostly refers to architectural guidebooks and surveys in which these buildings are mentioned. References to Guide to Historic Architecture of Piedmont are for Catherine W. Bishir's and Michael T. Southern's A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont, North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). A few files appear to contain some drawings or other documents with attribution to other architects, such as Harry Barton and H. C. Linthicum.

Identification

MC 00087

Creator

Eric G. Flannagan and Sons, Architects and Engineers.

Creator

Flannagan, Eric G. (Eric Goodyear), 1892-1970

Quantity

108.46 Linear feet

General Physical Description note

61 cartons, 5 flat file drawers, 1 tube and 43 loose rolled drawings

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff .

Language

English

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