mss00375 Guide to the Charles W. Barrett Specifications for the Louis R. Wilson Residence, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1932? MSS 00375 Finding aid prepared by Processed by: Todd Kosmerick;machine-readable finding aid created by: Todd Kosmerick Special Collections Research Center 2008 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-10-30T17:55-0400 Finding aid written in English. Charles W. Barrett Specifications for the Louis R. Wilson Residence, Chapel Hill, North Carolina MSS 00375 Special Collections Research Center 0.01 Linear feet 1932? Contained here are the specifications for the Louis R. Wilson Residence in Chapel Hill. These are one of the few building specifications for North Carolina structures during this time period and one of the few records of architect Charles Barrett. The building was the house of Louis Round Wilson, librarian and first director of the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the namesake for the Wilson Library on that campus. Charles Barrett was a builder-architect who practiced in North Carolina during the early twentieth century. In Raleigh he designed the Bishop's House of St. Mary's School and houses in the Oakwood neighborhood. He also designed prominent churches in Louisburg and the Boyd-Kerr House in Warrenton. Barrett published Colonial Southern Homes (1903) and (with Frank Thompson) Plans for Public Schoolhouses. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. 1 folder Barrett, Charles W. Restrictions to Access

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Gift of Susan Seehusen Perlmutt, 2008 (Accession 2008-0214).

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[Identification of item], Charles W. Barrett Specifications, MSS 375, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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 Biographical Note

Charles Barrett was a builder-architect who practiced in North Carolina during the early twentieth century. In Raleigh he designed the Bishop's House of St. Mary's School and houses in the Oakwood neighborhood. He also designed prominent churches in Louisburg and the Boyd-Kerr House in Warrenton. Barrett published Colonial Southern Homes (1903) and (with Frank Thompson) Plans for Public Schoolhouses.

 Scope and Content Note

Contained here are the specifications for the Louis R. Wilson Residence in Chapel Hill. These are one of the few building specifications for North Carolina structures during this time period and one of the few records of architect Charles Barrett. The building was the house of Louis Round Wilson, librarian and first director of the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the namesake for the Wilson Library on that campus.

 Related Material Louis Round Wilson Papers (at UNC-Chapel Hill) Barrett, Charles W. Wilson, Louis R. Architecture Architecture--North Carolina Buildings--Specifications--North Carolina Chapel Hill (N.C.) Specifications 1 of 1 1932? Scope and Contents note

26 pages, page 17 missing