70 collections related to Architecture
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Polier, August Lewis
Size: 2.85 linear feet (12 tubes, 1 halfbox, 1 flat folder) Collection ID: MC 00238
This collection contains blueprints of the North Carolina state capitol, blueprint plans for arena at North Carolina State Fair grounds (Dorton Arena, William Henley Dietrick and Matthew Nowicki, architects), and plans for four residences in the Raleigh area. A short biographical sketch of Polier containing photographs and clippings ...
MoreThis collection contains blueprints of the North Carolina state capitol, blueprint plans for arena at North Carolina State Fair grounds (Dorton Arena, William Henley Dietrick and Matthew Nowicki, architects), and plans for four residences in the Raleigh area. A short biographical sketch of Polier containing photographs and clippings is also included. August Lewis Polier (1922-2000) was an architect based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He received a B.S. in architectural engineering from North Carolina State College in 1949, and worked for architect Richard L. Rice and later for the firm of Cooper, Haskins & Rice. In 1955 Polier began working with Jesse M. Page, and later became partner in the firm. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the firm changed names several times. Polier was involved in a variety of professional organizations, including the North Carolina Board of Architecture, American Institutes of Architects, Raleigh Engineers Club, Construction Specifications Institute, and Raleigh Council of Architects. He retired from Polier, Ballard & Associates in 1988.
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Woodroof, Albert C., 1895-1986, Woodroof, A. C. , Jr. (Albert Cecil), 1920-1991
Size: 65.5 linear feet (238 tubes, 29 document cases, 17 flat folders) Collection ID: MC 00325
The Albert C. Woodroof and A. C. Woodroof, Jr. Papers and Architectural Drawings document the professional activities of the two architects and their firms. The collection is arranged into five series: drawings, project files, office records, professional papers, and personal papers. The drawings series contains drawings from both ...
MoreThe Albert C. Woodroof and A. C. Woodroof, Jr. Papers and Architectural Drawings document the professional activities of the two architects and their firms. The collection is arranged into five series: drawings, project files, office records, professional papers, and personal papers. The drawings series contains drawings from both Woodroof, Sr. and Woodroof, Jr., and includes floor plans, site plans, details, and elevations for a variety of projects. Project files contain correspondence, financial records, contracts and agreements, and other material relating primarily to Woodroof, Jr.’s firm. Office records contain correspondence, lists of prospective clients, personnel files, financial accounts, and promotional materials for Woodroof, Jr.’s firm. Professional papers contain general materials relating to architecture and design, such as publications from the American Institute of Architects and other professional organizations, catalogs, brochures, and clippings. Personal papers contain correspondence and financial records for both men. Materials in this collection range in date from 1927 to 1986. Albert Cecil Woodroof (1895-1986) was an architect based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woodroof received his architectural license in 1927. He worked for several firms throughout the Southeast before opening his own firm in 1935. His projects included residences, churches, and schools. Albert Cecil Woodroof, Jr. (1920-1991) was an architect based in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of North Carolina in 1940. From 1948 to 1963, Woodroof worked in the architectural firm of his father, Albert C. Woodroof, Sr., first as a draftsman and later as a partner. In 1964 Woodroof, Jr. opened his own firm, and later partnered with John S. MacRae and Martin A. Senell. Woodroof’s projects include churches, schools, museums, country clubs, shopping centers, and residences, primarily in North Carolina.
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Alden B. Dow Associates, Dow, Alden B., 1904-1983
Size: 0.3 linear feet (1 flat folder) Collection ID: MC 00562
The Alden B. Dow Architecture Study Collection contains architectural drawings and blueprints for eight of Alden B. Dow's architectural works in Michigan. These items relate to a visit to NC State University's School of Design in 1951. The collection also includes a letter from Dean Henry Kamphoefner to Dow highlighting Dow's visit. ...
MoreThe Alden B. Dow Architecture Study Collection contains architectural drawings and blueprints for eight of Alden B. Dow's architectural works in Michigan. These items relate to a visit to NC State University's School of Design in 1951. The collection also includes a letter from Dean Henry Kamphoefner to Dow highlighting Dow's visit. Alden B. Dow (1904-1983) was a Modernist architect. The son of Grace and Herbert Dow, of Dow Chemical Company, he graduated from Midland High School and in 1923 attended the University of Michigan for engineering. After three years, he left to study architecture at Columbia University, graduating in 1931. In the summer of 1933, he and his wife Vada Bennett studied under Frank Lloyd Wright. Dow opened his own firm, Alden B. Dow Associates, in 1934. He was known for the many homes he designed in the modernist style, mostly in Michigan. His structures in North Carolina include the 1934 Ethyl-Dow House Prototypes designed as residences at Kure Beach for the bromine factory run jointly by Dow Chemical Company and Ethyl Corporation from 1934 to 1946, and the 1963 Duke University President's House in Durham. Dow was awarded the Diplome de Grand Prix at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. In 1983, shortly before his death, he was named the architect laureate of Michigan.
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Davis, Archie Royal
Size: 68.9 linear feet (64 archival boxes, 25 flat folders, 147 tube boxes, 11 tubes) Collection ID: MC 00241
The Archie Royal Davis Papers include materials related to Davis's professional associations and civic activities as well as biographical material and photographs. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Davis's office records and architectural drawings. Archie Royal Davis (1907-1980) earned his architecture degree in 1930 from ...
MoreThe Archie Royal Davis Papers include materials related to Davis's professional associations and civic activities as well as biographical material and photographs. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Davis's office records and architectural drawings. Archie Royal Davis (1907-1980) earned his architecture degree in 1930 from North Carolina State College and an engineering degree from the University of North Carolina in 1934. He established his own architectural firm in Durham, North Carolina, in 1939. In 1948, he was appointed as the Orange County Schools Architect. Davis was active in numerous professional and civic organizations throughout his career.
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Biberstein, Bowles & Meacham (Firm)
Size: 14.7 linear feet (22 flat folders, and 20 tubes, 9 document cases) Collection ID: MC 00222
This collection contains building plans, specifications, blueprints, contracts, and correspondence from the firm of Biberstein & Bowles, Inc. as well as Biberstein, Bowles & Meacham (later Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed) of Charlotte, North Carolina. TMost of the materials pertain to the construction of the Botany ...
MoreThis collection contains building plans, specifications, blueprints, contracts, and correspondence from the firm of Biberstein & Bowles, Inc. as well as Biberstein, Bowles & Meacham (later Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed) of Charlotte, North Carolina. TMost of the materials pertain to the construction of the Botany Zoology building (Gardner Hall) and the Print Shop on the campus of North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina. Documents include building schedules, working drawings, HVAC and plumbing diagrams, design notes, addenda, and superseded plans. Also included are machinery plans for the Caromount Division of the Sidney Blumenthal Co., in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and the Pacific Mills plant in Lexington, North Carolina. A related collection is located in the Special Collections Department of the library at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte. Herman "Dick" Von Biberstein (1893-1966) graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering in 1914. He joined his father's business around this time and from 1915 to 1930 the firm was known as H.V. Biberstein. In 1930, H.V. Biberstein was joined by William A. Bowles and the firm was known as Biberstein and Bowles for the next 18 years. The two men were joined by Louis H. Meacham in 1948, at which point the firm became Biberstein, Bowles & Meacham. It was during this era that the firm designed the Botany Zoology building (later Gardner Hall) and the Print Shop for North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Branan, C. Frank (Cicero Franklin), 1922-2004
Size: 1.75 linear feet (1 oversized flat box, 1 flat box, 2 tubes) Collection ID: MC 00079
The C. Frank Branan Architectural Drawings, 1924-1976, contains architectural drawings created or received by C. Frank Branan. Included are blueprints and tracings. Buildings represented include residences designed by Branan and located in Florida and North Carolina. The collection also contains plans for some buildings designed by ...
MoreThe C. Frank Branan Architectural Drawings, 1924-1976, contains architectural drawings created or received by C. Frank Branan. Included are blueprints and tracings. Buildings represented include residences designed by Branan and located in Florida and North Carolina. The collection also contains plans for some buildings designed by other architects, such Crampton and Deitrick, for whom Branan once worked. While the materials span the time period 1924-1976, most documents date from 1949 to 1968. Also included are architectural drawings of C. Frank Branan's own residence in Raleigh. C. Frank (Cicero Franklin) Branan was born in 1922, and he grew up in Sanford, Florida. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1942. He practiced architecture in Daytona Beach, Florida, before relocating to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1955 when he joined the architectural firm of William H. Deitrick (later Guy Crampton and Associates). Branan later became consulting architect for the State of North Carolina in the Office of Historic Preservation, retiring in 1990. He passed away in 2004.
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Size: 1.7 linear feet (1 oversize flat box, 1 flat folder) Collection ID: MC 00455
This collection contains architectural drawings collected from various sources by Catherine W. Bishir during her research. Some were acquired for a study of Art Deco architecture in North Carolina. The drawings are mostly blueprints or other reproductions, and they date from 1871 to 1996, although most are from the early twentieth ...
MoreThis collection contains architectural drawings collected from various sources by Catherine W. Bishir during her research. Some were acquired for a study of Art Deco architecture in North Carolina. The drawings are mostly blueprints or other reproductions, and they date from 1871 to 1996, although most are from the early twentieth century. Catherine W. Bishir joined the NC State University Libraries in February 2007 as Curator of Architecture Special Collections. She has had a long career in historic preservation, serving as senior architectural historian for Preservation North Carolina, senior architectural historian and architectural survey coordinator for the State Historic Preservation Office in the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, and adjunct professor in NC State’s School of Architecture. She was a co-founder of the Vernacular Architectural Forum. Her publications include Architects and Builders in North Carolina and North Carolina Architecture. She is Editor in Chief of the website North Carolina Architects & Builders.
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Keen, Charles Barton, 1868-1931
Size: 5 linear feet (1 archival box, 10 flat folders, 2 tubes) Collection ID: MC 00471
This collection contains architectural drawings and specifications for the Norman Stockton Residence (1929) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and drawings for two homes belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Dudley L. Simms. The Norman Stockton Residence in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is an example of Keen's Georgian Revival work in Reynolda ...
MoreThis collection contains architectural drawings and specifications for the Norman Stockton Residence (1929) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and drawings for two homes belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Dudley L. Simms. The Norman Stockton Residence in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is an example of Keen's Georgian Revival work in Reynolda Park. The collection also contains drawings for the O'Hanlon Residence. Charles Barton Keen (1868-1931) was a Philadelphia-born architect who was known for his colonial revival country homes. He was especially popular in Philadelphia (1890-1912) and in North Carolina (1912-1931).
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Peete, Charles H.
Size: 2.3 linear feet (1 box; 6 flat folders) Collection ID: MC 00479
This collection contains drawings and project files that document the creation of the Charles H. Peete Home. The materials range from 1890 to 1920. The home was designed for Dr. Peete by an architectural firm in Virginia called Ferguson, Calrow, and Taylor. The home is a part of a National Register Historic District in Warrenton, ...
MoreThis collection contains drawings and project files that document the creation of the Charles H. Peete Home. The materials range from 1890 to 1920. The home was designed for Dr. Peete by an architectural firm in Virginia called Ferguson, Calrow, and Taylor. The home is a part of a National Register Historic District in Warrenton, North Carolina. The plans do not appear to represent the final design of the home. The Charles H. Peete home is located in Warrenton, North Carolina, and is part of a National Register Historic District. Dr. Peete was a physician working in Warrenton. The home was designed by a Norfolk, Virginia firm, called Ferguson, Calrow, and Taylor, in the early twentieth century.
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Size: 2.1 linear feet (7 flat folders) Collection ID: MC 00382
The collection includes Charles C. Hartmann's original plans and revisions for design of the Atlantic Bank and Trust Building in Burlington, North Carolina, in 1928 as well as plans for the 1950 renovation of the building. Architect Charles Conrad Hartmann was born in 1889 in New York City but moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, to ...
MoreThe collection includes Charles C. Hartmann's original plans and revisions for design of the Atlantic Bank and Trust Building in Burlington, North Carolina, in 1928 as well as plans for the 1950 renovation of the building. Architect Charles Conrad Hartmann was born in 1889 in New York City but moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, to open an office in 1921. Hartmann played an important role in the spread of high-rise downtown bank and office buildings in many North Carolina towns, as well as the design of many hospitals, housing projects, commercial and religious buildings, and single-family homes through the 1960s.
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Parker, Charles N. (Charles Newton), 1885-1961
Size: 1 linear foot (6 flat folders.) Collection ID: MC 00383
The Charles Parker Papers consist of architectural drawings, notes, and correspondence. All of the architectural drawings (except for a select few) are Parker’s designs, 1924-1929, of the Grove Arcade. The few that are not of the Grove Arcade are Parker’s designs of area homes in the 1920s. The Grove Arcade architectural drawings ...
MoreThe Charles Parker Papers consist of architectural drawings, notes, and correspondence. All of the architectural drawings (except for a select few) are Parker’s designs, 1924-1929, of the Grove Arcade. The few that are not of the Grove Arcade are Parker’s designs of area homes in the 1920s. The Grove Arcade architectural drawings fall into several different types of architectural drawings. These are: sketches, design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation drawings. The subjects of these drawings are the completed building, the exterior façade, floor plans, exterior detail elements (such as engravings), and structural engineering. In terms of material composition, the Grove Arcade architectural drawings are either graphite on tracing paper, brown prints, or watercolor on heavier paper. Besides architectural drawings, there are handwritten notes by Parker and architectural supply lists. There are also several letters written by one of Parker’s clients, and a newspaper clipping advertising a Grove subdivision. From 1924 to 1929 Charles Parker (1885-1961) worked as an architect in the construction of the Grove Arcade, a shopping center in Asheville, North Carolina. The Grove Arcade was commissioned by local multi-millionaire E. W. Grove in the beginning of Asheville’s Golden Age. It spans a city block, is five stories high, and is decorated with engravings and other detail work. Parker was a well-known architect in Asheville for his work on residential homes. The Grove Arcade thrived as a shopping center in the 1930s, but spent the rest of the 20th century as an office building. In 2002, the structure was restored to its original glory as a shopping center.
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Brown, Charlotte Vestal
Size: 7.2 linear feet (13 archival storage boxes, 2 halfboxes, and 2 flat folders) Collection ID: MC 00219
The Charlotte Vestal Brown Wainwright Papers, 1767-1990, include correspondence, photographs, research notes, transcriptions, and blueprints. Material was gathered by Charlotte Vestal Brown Wainwright for her study of the practice of building in North Carolina between 1865 and 1945 and includes information on the administration of ...
MoreThe Charlotte Vestal Brown Wainwright Papers, 1767-1990, include correspondence, photographs, research notes, transcriptions, and blueprints. Material was gathered by Charlotte Vestal Brown Wainwright for her study of the practice of building in North Carolina between 1865 and 1945 and includes information on the administration of the grant project, photographs and manuscripts from the book written by Brown, as well as research and reference files used in the project.
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Coffey, John W.
Size: 2 linear feet (2 cartons, 1 box, 1 drawings box, 1 oversized flatfolder) Collection ID: MC 00519
The Coffee Family Collection includes architectural records acquired by the Coffey family through their family association with John W. Coffey & Son, the Raleigh building contracting firm. The firm was founded by John W. Coffey. John W. Coffey, born 1869, founded John W. Coffey and Son, a construction firm that rose to prominence ...
MoreThe Coffee Family Collection includes architectural records acquired by the Coffey family through their family association with John W. Coffey & Son, the Raleigh building contracting firm. The firm was founded by John W. Coffey. John W. Coffey, born 1869, founded John W. Coffey and Son, a construction firm that rose to prominence in Raleigh, NC. He started in the building trade in 1899, when he formed a business partnership with George C. Bonniwell. The partnership ended in 1900 as Bonniwell chose to move elsewhere and he decided to start his own firm. John W. Coffey and Son found success building up the suburbs to the north and west of Raleigh as well as partaking in many commercial projects across the eastern part of the state. John Nelson Coffey (1902-1988) and John Nelson Coffey, Jr. (1929-2015) continued work with the firm.
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Stanley, Doris J., 1926-2018
Size: 29.8 linear feet (28 tubes, 63 flat folders, 3 boxes, 4 legal boxes, 1 halfbox, 1 flatbox) Collection ID: MC 00153
The Doris J. Stanley and William Van Eaton Sprinkle Architectural Drawings contain floorplans and elevations for numerous residences, some businesses, and one funeral home. Items in the collection are described using titles found on the original drawings. Also included are project files and specifications. Doris J. Stanley was born ...
MoreThe Doris J. Stanley and William Van Eaton Sprinkle Architectural Drawings contain floorplans and elevations for numerous residences, some businesses, and one funeral home. Items in the collection are described using titles found on the original drawings. Also included are project files and specifications. Doris J. Stanley was born in Farmington, Maine, in 1926. She worked for two years in newspaper advertising for the Bangor Daily Commercial before coming to Durham, North Carolina, in 1950 with a friend who was attending graduate school. In Durham, she took a drafting job with architect William Van Eaton Sprinkle. Sprinkle did his initial drawings at 1/8” scale, then handed them over to Stanley to recreate them at 1/4”. All the sketches and drafting in Sprinkle's office were completed by Stanley. After Sprinkle's death in 1965, Stanley continued to operate his architectural firm. Stanley retired in 1989.
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Hunter, Edgar H.
Size: 22 linear feet (8 boxes, 13 tubes, 62 oversize folders, 1 oversize presentation board) Collection ID: MC 00245
The Edgar H. and Margaret K. Hunter Architectural Papers contains drawings and job files from the Hunters' work, primarily in New Hampshire and North Carolina, as well as professional and personal photographs and slides. Edgar Hayes "Ted" Hunter Jr. (1914-1995) received A.B. and M.Ed. degrees from Dartmouth College in 1938 and 1950. ...
MoreThe Edgar H. and Margaret K. Hunter Architectural Papers contains drawings and job files from the Hunters' work, primarily in New Hampshire and North Carolina, as well as professional and personal photographs and slides. Edgar Hayes "Ted" Hunter Jr. (1914-1995) received A.B. and M.Ed. degrees from Dartmouth College in 1938 and 1950. He also received B.A. and Master of Architecture degrees from Harvard in 1941 and 1970. At Harvard, Hunter met Margaret "Peg" King (1919-1997), whom he would later marry. Margaret Hunter received a B.A. in Botany at Wheaton College and was a member of the first class of female architects at the Harvard School of Design in 1942. The Hunters practiced in Hanover, New Hampshire, from 1945 to 1966, both teaching at Dartmouth and designing several buildings on the campus. In 1966 they relocated to Raleigh as E.H. and M.K. Hunter AIA. There, the couple continued to design and renovate residential structures as well as commercial buildings, such as the Craft Pavilion at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Ridgewood Shopping Center, and North Hills Shopping Center.
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Flannagan, Eric G. (Eric Goodyear), 1892-1970
Size: 145 linear feet (134 document cases, 117 tubes of drawings, and 68 flat folders of drawings.) Collection ID: MC 00087
Contained in this collection are project files and drawings of buildings designed by Eric G. Flannagan and the firm Eric G. Flannagan and Sons, Architects and Engineers. 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 ...
MoreContained in this collection are project files and drawings of buildings designed by Eric G. Flannagan and the firm Eric G. Flannagan and Sons, Architects and Engineers. 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 Flannagan was most active,1922-1949. 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.
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Wood, Ernest H., III, 1947-
Size: 5.25 linear feet (7 archival boxes, 2 legal boxes, 1 cardbox) Collection ID: MC 00438
This collection comprises research files for the chapters that Wood contributed to the book Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building, including correspondence, project notes, photographs and photograph permissions requests, interviews with architects (including audiotapes), newsclippings, and ...
MoreThis collection comprises research files for the chapters that Wood contributed to the book Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building, including correspondence, project notes, photographs and photograph permissions requests, interviews with architects (including audiotapes), newsclippings, and some architectural drawings. Also included are publications by Wood as well as research pertaining to other writing projects featuring architecture and design as a central theme. Ernest H. (Ernie) Wood III was an architectural writer for Southern Living and an editor for North Carolina Architect. He has also published articles in the AIA Journal and other periodicals. For the 1990 book Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (co-authored with with Catherine Bishir, Charlotte Vestal Brown, and Carl Lounsbury), he authored the final chapter, entitled "The Opportunities Are Unlimited: Architects and Builders since 1945."
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Williams, Carter, 1912-2000
Size: 133.7 linear feet (463 tubes, 12 flat folder, 25 cartons) Collection ID: MC 00436
The F. Carter Williams Drawings and Files, 1928, 1940-1994, contain drawings and project files for many buildings designed by F. Carter Williams and his firm. Included are blueprints for the Mr. and Mrs. Guy H. Branaman residence in Raleigh, North Carolina, blueprints for the F. Carter Williams residence, as well as blueprints of ...
MoreThe F. Carter Williams Drawings and Files, 1928, 1940-1994, contain drawings and project files for many buildings designed by F. Carter Williams and his firm. Included are blueprints for the Mr. and Mrs. Guy H. Branaman residence in Raleigh, North Carolina, blueprints for the F. Carter Williams residence, as well as blueprints of other residential projects, churches, and schools. Also included are drawings and blueprints for projects at North Carolina universities, including Duke, North Carolina State, East Carolina, and Meredith. There are project files for many of the same buildings, as well as for several state buildings, including the North Carolina Legislative Building, and building at several parks. Fred Carter Williams (1912-2000) was a Raleigh, North Carolina, architect who designed more than 600 projects throughout the state of North Carolina.
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Size: 24.5 linear feet (65 flat folders and 25 tubes) Collection ID: MC 00350
The Fieldcrest Mills records primarily contain building plans, site plans, elevations, sections, details, structural and electrical systems drawings and engineering plans for Fieldcrest Mills. These plans are related to a variety of textile mill warehouses located in Leaksville, Spray, and later Eden, North Carolina. Fieldcrest Mills ...
MoreThe Fieldcrest Mills records primarily contain building plans, site plans, elevations, sections, details, structural and electrical systems drawings and engineering plans for Fieldcrest Mills. These plans are related to a variety of textile mill warehouses located in Leaksville, Spray, and later Eden, North Carolina. Fieldcrest Mills was a Marshall Fields Company that produced an assortment of textiles including blankets, bedspreads, towels, bed sheets, bath accessories, bath rugs, rugs and furniture coverings; their warehouses were located in Draper, Leaksville and Spray, North Carolina. These three towns combined in 1967 to become Eden, North Carolina. The company changed in 1986 when Fieldcrest Mills merged with Cannon Mills of Kannapolis, North Carolina, becoming Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc. Then in 1997 the Pillowtex Corporation acquired the Fieldcrest Cannon Company.
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Matsumoto, George, 1922-
Size: 127.4 linear feet (488 tubes, 56 flatfolders, 9 boxes, 1 legalbox, 2 oversizes boxes, 1 halfbox, 2 oversize flatboxes, 5 flatboxes) Collection ID: MC 00042
The George Matsumoto Papers includes blueprints, specifications, sketches, correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, contracts, financial statements, and other related architectural records that document the extensive commercial and residential work of George Matsumoto and Associates. The bulk of the collection is ...
MoreThe George Matsumoto Papers includes blueprints, specifications, sketches, correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, contracts, financial statements, and other related architectural records that document the extensive commercial and residential work of George Matsumoto and Associates. The bulk of the collection is composed of architectural records, such as drawings and sketches, that signify Matsumoto's architectural influences and his approach to project development over time. Included are materials that cover the various types of projects he took on, such as residential, collegiate, commercial, and community centers. The architectural records cover a wide expanse of projects primarily in North Carolina and California, with others in Virginia, Missouri, New York, Florida, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Illinois. The architectural records, publications, honors and awards, and architectural model contained in the collection portray Matsumoto's career as an architect, businessman, and leader of modernist architecture in the 20th century. The materials range from 1930 to 2009, with the bulk from 1940 to 1979. A project index to the collection is available online. George Matsumoto (1922-2016) was a Japanese American architect and educator who is most known for his award-winning, modernist designs. In 1948, Matsumoto became a faculty member at the School (later College) of Design of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). During his tenure at the School of Design, Matsumoto won more than thirty awards for his residential work, and his achievements in design were widely published. In 1961, George Matsumoto went on to join the faculty at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, and opened his own firm. He stopped teaching in 1967 but continued his architecture work until 1991. In contrast to his residential work, Matsumoto's post-teaching work is mostly comprised of community centers and collegiate designs.
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