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Box 91

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Photographs, circa 1937

 File — Box: 91, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Records in this subseries document the construction and maintenance of Shack Mountain, the Kimballs' country home outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. After a four-year search for either a house or site on which to build, the couple purchased 110 acres on the ridge of Shack Mountain, where Kimball built his Jefferson inspired design. The house, an elongated octagon, was built by Kimball's friend Robert E. Lee of the Charlottesville Lumber Company between 1935 and 1937, and the couple spent...
Dates: circa 1937