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Architects & Builders

The North Carolina Architects & Builders website has a biographical dictionary of architects and builders who have produced North Carolina's architecture for more than 300 years. You can search by name, building, work locations, trades, and years active.

Go to: http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.ed

Hugh Edward White

From the files of Hugh E. White, architect, Gastonia, N. C. [Gastonia]: [s.n.], 1936. Booklet showing a few of the buildings erected from plans by Hugh E. White, of Gastonia, North Carolina.

 

The North Carolina Architects & Builders website has a biographical dictionary of architects and builders who have produced North Carolina's architecture for more than 300 years. You can search by name, building, work locations, trades, and years active.

Includes the biography of Hugh Edward White (June 27, 1869- June 25, 1939) who became the leading architect in Gastonia, N.C.

Go to: http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/

 

Gaston Alive Magazine article about Hugh Edward White: One Man's Legacy by Ben Dungan. Nov. 20, 2017.
Go to: https://gastonalive.com/2017/11/one-mans-legacy/

 

National register multiple property documentation form: Architecture of Hugh Edward White and White, Streeter, and Chamberlain, 1921-1939, Gaston County, North Carolina. by Davyd Foard Hood, 14 February 1999. Also available here (certified copy).

Vintage Architectural Art is a website designed to promote the preservation and appreciation of intact collections of old architectural drawings, etchings, and engravings, and made available to an appreciating public.  The collections are from the archives of Hugh E. White, Sr., architect (1898-1939) and preserved by subsequent family generations."
Go to: http://www.vintagearchitecturalart.com/about.htm

 

Drawings, Design and construction documents:

Architectural drawings and Design and construction documents:

Gaston County Public Library Digital History Collection has an Architecture Collection of photographs and documents.

Photographs

Gaston County Architectural Heritage Driving Tour

Gaston County Architectural Heritage Driving Tour. Gaston County Historic Preservation Commission (Gastonia, N.C.) A pictorial tour and guide through the historic architectural buildings and homes throughout Gaston County. 1982?

 

Author: Gaston County Public Library
Title:  Digital Gaston County: Architecture
URL: http://gastonlibrary.libguides.com/digital-gaston-county/architecture
Revised: 14 July 2023

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