The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, North Carolina Chapter invites you to join us for a very special holiday event.
Join us for an exclusive Charles Barton Keen Home Tour & Holiday Social
Thursday, December 11
6pm to 8pm
94 North Union Street
Concord, NC 28025
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.
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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.
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Charles Barton Keen (1868-1931), a prolific designer of suburban residences and country estates primarily on Philadelphia’s 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’s Reynolda (1912-1917) for Katharine and R. J. Reynolds. On the strength of that commission he found a wider clientele associated with the state’s 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.