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Box 69

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Correspondence regarding publication and distribution of article, archaeological excavation, and fundraising, July-December 1939

 File — Box: 69, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This small sub-subseries is comprised of correspondence detailing Kimball's involvement with an unrealized plan for the restoration of Tryon's Palace. The Georgian style palace, designed by English architect John Hawks as the Colonial Capitol of North Carolina and built between 1767-1770, had burned to the ground in 1798. Gertrude Carraway, a resident of the city and the vice-regent of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina, contacted Kimball in...
Dates: July-December 1939