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Bessie Gray Plumly House, Front and Side View

Bess Gray Plumly House (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Item information

Title:
Bessie Gray Plumly House, Front and Side View
Topics:
Architecture
Subjects:
Columns
Cornices
Dormers
Entablatures
Facades
Hand-railing
Houses
Housing, Single family
Parapets
Porches
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ncar_N_87_5_1987
Photographer:
Phillips, Laura A. W. more info on Phillips, Laura A. W. 
Created Date:
Genre:
Architectural photographs
Location:
Winston-Salem (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: Plumly, Bess Gray House (Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina)

Architect:
more info on Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 
Built:
Street:
821 West End Boulevard
Community:
Winston-Salem
State:
North Carolina
Zip:
27101
Provenance note:
The house was built for Bessie Gray Plumly.
Architectural note:
This two-story home features a Neo-Classical entry and gabled dormers with round-headed windows.
Location:
Winston-Salem (N.C.)
Subjects:
Historic buildings
Houses
Latitude, Longitude:
36.09517, -80.261961