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Item information

Title:
Front View, J.A. Jones House
Topics:
Architecture
Subjects:
Columns
Facades
Hand-railing
Houses
Housing, Single family
Porches
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ncar_N_71_1_4248
Photographer:
Schwartz, S. more info on Schwartz, S. 
Architect:
Simpson, Frank B., 1883-1966 more info on Simpson, Frank B., 1883-1966 
Created Date:
circa to
Genre:
Architectural photographs
Location:
Craven County (N.C.)
Digital Project:
Beaux Arts to Modernism

Source information

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.

Building: Jones, J. A. House (New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina)

Provenance note:
Simpson renovated the house for Jones, a livery stable proprietor.
Architectural note:
The original Gothic Revival house was renovated by Simpson and given Neo-Classical Revival details. The house has been demolished.
Location:
New Bern (N.C.)
Subjects:
Demolished buildings
Historic buildings
Houses
Lost architecture
Latitude, Longitude:
35.1084, -77.042854