Colonial Homes in North Carolina

By John V. Allcott
Professor of Art University of North Carolina
A Publication of The Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission Raleigh, North Carolina 1963
Reprinted by Division of Archives and History North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources 1975
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES Grace J. Rohrer, Secretary
DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Larry E. Tise, Acting Director
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION T. Harry Gatton, Chairman
Gertrude S. Carraway Helen G. Edmonds Frontis W. Johnston J. C. Knowles Robert M. Lineberger Edward W. Phifer, Jr.
The Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission was established by the North Carolina General Assembly to “make plans and develop a program for celebration of the tercentenary of the granting of the Carolina Charter of 1663....” As part of this program the commission arranged for the publication of a number of historical pamphlets for use in stimulating interest in the study of North Carolina history during the period 1663-1763. This publication was part of that project.
The following statement was published in the original printing of Colonial Homes of North Carolina : “The Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission was established by the North Carolina General Assembly ‘to make plans and develop a program for celebration of the tercentenary of the granting of the Carolina Charter of 1663....’ As part of this program the Commission arranged for the publication of a number of historical pamphlets for use in stimulating interest in the study of North Carolina history during the period 1663-1763. This publication is part of that project.” Because of the widespread acceptance of this particular pamphlet and continuing demand for it, the Division of Archives and History of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources is reprinting it. When the Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission went out of existence at the end of 1663, its stock of publications was turned over to what was then the State Department of Archives and History. Since that time several of the pamphlets originally published by the commission have been reprinted.