Hosted by the 蜜桃传媒app North Carolina Chapter
Join us for an exclusive Charles Barton Keen Home Tour & Holiday Social in Concord
Stewart Butler, expert on the Charles Barton Keen architectural history, will give a short introduction followed by a short Q&A with architect Don Duffy.
About the Charles Albert & Ruth Coltrane Cannon House (1928):
Charles A. Cannon, whose father founded Cannon Mills, and his wife Ruth, an active historic preservationist, hired Keen to design their residences, as did his sister Laura, the wife of Charlotte mayor Charles Lambeth.
Charles Barton Keen (1868-1931), a prolific designer of suburban residences and country estates primarily on Philadelphia鈥檚 Main Line for more than thirty-five years, added a second locus of activity—North Carolina—when he became a favorite architect of wealthy tobacco and textile families starting around 1912. In several of his projects in North Carolina he was associated with landscape architect Thomas Sears. His best-known project in the state is Winston-Salem鈥檚 Reynolda (1912-1917) for Katharine and R. J. Reynolds. On the strength of that commission he found a wider clientele associated with the state鈥檚 unprecedented industrial wealth of the early twentieth century and who, in the 1910s and 1920s, were advancing the national trend from downtown living to country houses or newly created elite suburbs.
This event is hosted by an 蜜桃传媒app Chapter. Please check the Chapter website or contact the Chapter directly for the most up-to-date details including dates, times, and pricing.