View, Blandwood, Greensboro, North Carolina
Blandwood (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- View, Blandwood, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Houses
Italianate (North American architecture styles)
- Original Format:
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Color slide
- Item identifier:
- buch0303
- Photographer:
- Buchman, Tim more info on Buchman, Tim
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural photographs
- Location:
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Greensboro (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Preservation North Carolina
- Collection:
- Tim Buchman Photographs, 1988-1998 (MC00583) held by Preservation North Carolina
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from Preservation North Carolina. For general information see the Preservation North Carolina website (http://www.presnc.org).
- RightsStatements.org:
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In Copyright
For more information:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0 - 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: Blandwood (Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina)
- Architect:
- Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892 more info on Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
- Architect:
- Conrad Family more info on Conrad Family
- Builder:
- Conrad, Joseph more info on Conrad, Joseph
- Builder:
- Conrad, William more info on Conrad, William
- Builder-architect:
- Conrad, John W. more info on Conrad, John W.
- Built:
- Community:
- Greensboro
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Governor John Motley Morehead, first owner.
- Architectural note:
- The newly redesigned home retained the existing building formerly owned by Henry Humphreys, founder of Mount Hecla Mill. The home was reconstructed in 1983.
- Historical note:
- As one of A. J. Davis's first Italianate villas, and as one of the country's first Italianate villa, the home inspired countless imitations and popularized the center-tower villa across the nation. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historical Landmark.
- Location:
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Greensboro (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Houses
National Historic Landmarks
National Register of Historic Places