Architects (35)
Architects
Bacon, Henry, Jr.
by Wrenn, Tony P. Henry Bacon, Jr., architect of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., was born in Watseka, Ill., one of seven children of Henry (1822–91) and Elizabeth (1831–1912) Bacon of Massachusetts. Henry [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Bauer, Adolphus Gustavus
by Crabtree, Beth G., Smythe, Andrea. Bauer, Adolphus Gustavus
by Beth Crabtree, 1979; Revised by Andrea Smythe, SLNC Government and Heritage Library, December 2023
December 4, 1858–May 14, 1898
See also: Bauer, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Bauer, Rachael Blythe
by Smythe, Andrea. Bauer, Rachael Blythe
by Andrea Smythe, September 2023
May 15, 1870 – January 9, 1897
See also: Bauer, Adolphus Gustavus
Rachael Blythe Bauer, stenographer and typist, was a [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)
Bell, William
by Webb, Mena F. Bell, William
by Mena F. Webb, 1979
28 Oct. 1783–17 Sept. 1867
William Bell, architect and builder of the U.S. Arsenal at Fayetteville, was born in Aberdour, Fifeshire, Scotland. The names [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Berry, John
by Engstrom, Mary Claire. John Berry, self-taught builder-architect and Orange County politician, was born near Hillsborough, the son of John Berry, Sr., and Rhoda (Rosanna?) (Whitted?) Berry. According to family tradition, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Coor, James
by Carraway, Gertrude S. James Coor was a naval architect, builder, revolutionary leader, and enslaver. He was probably born in England but apparently moved to North Carolina from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to serve [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Cosby, Dabney
by Little-Stokes, Ruth. Dabney Cosby, architect and builder, who flourished in Virginia and North Carolina from the 1820s to his death, was born in Virginia. He resided in Raleigh from about 1840 until his death, and he is [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Davis, Alexander Jackson
by Allcott, J. V. Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect, designed a number of buildings in North Carolina between the 1830s and the Civil War, thus bringing the state into the mainstream of Romantic architecture [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
El Capitolio
by . Extraído de Libro de hechos de El Viejo Estado del Norte. La propiedad literaria 2011 por la Oficina de Archivos e Historia de Carolina del Norte, Departamento de Recursos Culturale de [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)
Ellington, Douglas D.
by Turberg, Edward F. Douglas D. Ellington, architect, was born in Clayton, the eldest of three sons of Jesse and Sallie Williamson Ellington. His father was from Clayton and his mother from Suffolk, Va. Educated at [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Ellington, Kenneth Raynor
by Stephens, George M. Kenneth Raynor Ellington, partner in architectural firm, was born in Clayton, the son of Jesse and Sallie Williamson Ellington. In 1914 he received the LL.B. degree from The University of North [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Flannagan, Eric Goodyear
by Flannagan, Clara H. R. Eric Goodyear Flannagan, architect and engineer, was born in Albemarle County, Va., of Irish, Dutch, and English ancestry. His father was Broadus Flannagan, son of Benjamin Collins and Ann Virginia [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Freelon, Philip Goodwin
by Bond, Mattison. Freelon, Philip Goodwin
By Mattison Bond, June 2023
March 26, 1953- July 9, 2019
Philip Freelon was an American architect. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Neal Freelon [...] (from ANCHOR: A North Carolina History Online Resource.)
Fremont (née Fish), Sewall Lawrence
by Grant, Dorothy F. Fremont (née Fish), Sewall Lawrence
by Dorothy Fremont Grant, 1986
30 Aug. 1816–1 May 1886
Sewall Lawrence Fremont (née Fish), army officer, chief engineer, and superintendent of the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
Garibaldi, Angelo
by Smith, Claiborne T., Jr. Angelo Garibaldi, steamboat captain and shipbuilder, was born in Italy of unknown parentage. He is said to have come to Baltimore as a boy with an uncle. On the death of this relative, young [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)
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