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<br /> NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.1024-0018
<br /> (8-86)
<br /> United States Department of the Interior
<br /> National Park Service
<br /> National Register of Historic Places
<br /> Continuation Sheet
<br /> Section number 8 Page 10 North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls
<br /> Orange County,NC
<br /> the organization celebrated the completion of a one-story,weatherboarded, hip-roofed cottage erected
<br /> by contractors including James Henry Liner at a cost of approximately$4,600. The building contained
<br /> a central living room/classroom, dormitory-style bedrooms,matrons' quarters, bathroom, dining room,
<br /> kitchen, and basement furnace room. Painter S.P. Cheek charged$225. NCFCWC purchased
<br /> household goods at Davis Furniture Company, Myers Department Store, and cots, mattresses, and
<br /> pillows at Mebane Bedding Company. NCFCWC's Durham chapter, led by women including Julia
<br /> Warren and Annie Day Shepard, subsidized the living room furnishings. Home Light and Power
<br /> Company of Greensboro constructed and equipped a small pump and Delco generator house for
<br /> $836.50. Well and septic tank installation cost an additional $405. Efland merchant S. C.Forrest
<br /> drilled the well,provided hardware and supplies, and held the mortgage on the house and land.13
<br /> NCIHCG's architect has not been identified. Charlotte Hawkins Brown notes in her September 5,
<br /> 1921 letter to North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare (NCSBCPW)commissioner
<br /> Kate Burr Johnson that plans for a cottage estimated to cost$5,000 were being drawn. The finely
<br /> executed line drawing on the cover of NCIHCG's circa 1930 fundraising brochure indicates a design
<br /> professional's involvement. The cottage was erected as rendered with the exception of the wall
<br /> sheathing material,which, due to budget constraints,was weatherboard rather than brick. The
<br /> principal contractor James Henry Liner(1888-1959),who lived north of Efland in the rural Cedar
<br /> Grove community,would have been capable of adapting the preliminary plans as needed. Liner's skill
<br /> is apparent in his work for the Orange County Board of Education, for which he built the one-story
<br /> brick St. Mary's School (1931) in Hillsborough.14
<br /> NCIHCG admitted its first residents in October 1925 under the supervision of matron Carrie M.
<br /> Brooks,teacher Rosa Morrow, and farm manager Charles Fuller. Brooks, an educator who had
<br /> previously resided in Greensboro and Washington, D. C., accepted a year-long contract with a$900
<br /> salary. She prepared for the position by working in July and August at the Virginia Industrial Home
<br /> for Colored Girls,where she received guidance from Janie Porter Barrett.15
<br /> Like many comparable institutions,the NCIHCG included a farm that provided residents with
<br /> sustenance and exercise. Agricultural returns reported to 1925 North Carolina farm census taker A. K.
<br /> McAdams indicate that the farm manager, children, and staff cultivated 33 acres of corn,tobacco,
<br /> 13"North Carolina Federation Women Held 1611 Annual Session,Mrs.Brown,Pres.,"New York Age,May 30,
<br /> 1925,p.2;NCSBCPW,Biennial Report of the NCSBCPW, 1924-1926(Raleigh:NCSBCPW, 1926), 120-121;Charlotte
<br /> Hawkins Brown,undated report and fmancial statement,NCSBPWI,Box 163.
<br /> 14 Charlotte Hawkins Brown,correspondence, 1921,and NCIHCG financial statements,NCSBPWI,Box 163;
<br /> Orange County Board of Education minutes,November 12, 1930,microfilm,North Carolina State Archives,Raleigh;death
<br /> certificate.
<br /> 15 Charlotte Hawkins Brown,correspondence and reports,NCSBPWI,Box 163.
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