Window and door details, Bumpass-Troy House, Greensboro, North Carolina
Bumpass-Troy House (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Window and door details, Bumpass-Troy House, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Description:
- 10 of 10
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Doors
Greek revival (Architecture)
Houses
Windows
- Original Format:
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Measured drawing
- Extent:
- scale: quarter full scale; 483mm x 610mm
- Item identifier:
- bh021310502
- Delineator:
- Peer, Gerard Walter more info on Peer, Gerard Walter
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural drawings
Detail drawings
- Location:
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Greensboro (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Bumpass-Troy House -- Francis Bumpass House (Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Street:
- 114 S. Mendenhall St.
- Community:
- Greensboro
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Owned by Sidney and Frances Bumpass, Methodist publishers of the Weekly Messenger, first owners. The home was later occupied by the granddaughters of Sidney and Frances Bumpass.
- Architectural note:
- The design was directly effected by the Parthenon, a picture of which Reverend Bumpass kept hanging over his office desk. The Doric portico was added around 1911.
- Historical note:
- The Francis Bumpass House was designed and erected in 1847 by the Reverend Sidney Bumpass who served on the conference to choose the site for the proposed Methodist Female College, later Greensboro College, and who was one of its first trustees. During the Civil War, the house was used as the Western Greensboro headquarters for the Union Army. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Location:
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Greensboro (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Houses
National Register of Historic Places