Breakfast room elevations and details

Merry Acres (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Item information

Title:
Breakfast room elevations and details
Topics:
Architecture
Subjects:
Breakfast rooms
Original Format:
Tracing paper
Extent:
1/2 in. = 1 ft.; 660mm x 914mm
Item identifier:
mc00240-001-ff0201-001-001_0041
Created Date:
Genre:
Architectural drawings
Detail drawings
Interior elevations
Location:
Winston-Salem (N.C.)
Digital Project:
Beaux Arts to Modernism

Source information

Repository:
Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
Collection:
Northup & O'Brien Architectural Records, 1917-1980 (MC00240) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
Note field:
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Rights:
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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: Merry Acres (Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina)

Architect:
more info on Lashmit, Luther D. 
Architect:
more info on Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 
Built:
Demolished:
Street:
2800 Robinhood Road
Community:
Winston-Salem
State:
North Carolina
Zip:
27106
Provenance note:
The home was built for R. J. Reynolds (tobacconist) and his wife.
Architectural note:
Done in the International style, the structure featured both protruding and receding surfaces, balconies, and rounded corners. Thomas Sears served as the project's landscape architect.
Historical note:
The house reminded many locals of an ocean liner and was popularly referred to as "The Ship." It was destroyed in 1978 under the direction of Lashmit.
Location:
Winston-Salem (N.C.)
Subjects:
Demolished buildings
Historic buildings
Houses
Lost architecture
Latitude, Longitude:
36.111675, -80.293615