Box 69
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Correspondence regarding excavation and reconstruction of mansion, fundraising and other topics, January 1940-October 1941
File — Box: 69, Folder: 13
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:
January 1940-October 1941