Front & Side View, Coor-Bishop House

Coor-Bishop House (New Bern, N.C.)

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Title:: Front & Side View, Coor-Bishop House
Topics:: Architecture
Subjects:: Columns
Facades
Gables
Houses
Housing, Single family
Porches
Original Format:: Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:: ncar_N_71_1_4078
Photographer:: Schwartz, S. more info on Schwartz, S.
Created Date:: circa 1970 to 1979
Genre:: Architectural photographs
Location:: Craven County (N.C.)
Digital Project:: Beaux Arts to Modernism: “Beaux Arts to Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina” was an LSTA-grant funded project to digitize architectural drawings and photographs documenting historic buildings in North Carolina. Architects represented in the project include Brown and Alexander Architect Engineering (née Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed); Martin E. Boyer; Eric G. Flannagan; Northup & O'Brien; Herbert Woodley Simpson, Louis Asbury; Leslie Boney; Charles Parker; Richard Sharp Smith; Douglas Ellington, and William H. Deitrick. The project was a partnership of the NC State University Libraries, the State Archives of North Carolina, the UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, and the Asheville Art Museum.

Repository:: State Archives of North Carolina
Collection:: Division of Archives and History Photograph Collection (State Archives of North Carolina Collection 4.1) held by State Archives of 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 the North Carolina State Archives.
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.

Architect:: Simpson, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodley), 1870-1945 more info on Simpson, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodley), 1870-1945
Architect:: James Coor more info on Coor, James

Provenance note:: The home was originally constructed by James Coor, a local house-builder and real estate speculator, to serve as his home. In the early twentieth century the house was acquired by Edward K. Bishop, a merchant and wholesale grocer.
Architectural note:: The house's original appearance was that of a Georgian Revival style residence, but the renovations of 1904 transformed the structure into an example of Simpson's characteristic Southern Colonial style, complete with columns and a full one-story porch.
Historical note:: The home played host to such prominent visitors as President James Monroe and John C. Calhoun.
Location:: New Bern (N.C.)
Subjects:: Historic buildings
Houses
Latitude, Longitude:: 35.109295, -77.035677