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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Catherine W. Bishir papers #4748, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Catherine W. Bishir of Raleigh, N.C., in April 1995 (Acc. 95046).

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• Architects--North Carolina.
• Architectural historians--North Carolina.
• Architecture--North Carolina.
• Bishir, Catherine W.
• Building--Practice--North Carolina--History.
• Historic preservation--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women historians--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Catherine Ward Bishir was born in 1942 in Lexington, Ky., daughter of Margaret Norris Byrn Ward (1912-1993), a home economics teacher, and William Smith Ward (1907-1994), a professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She received her B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1964 and her M.A. from Duke University in 1965. Since 1971, she has been involved in architectural history and historic preservation planning, chiefly under the auspices of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, where, as of 1995, she was Architectural Survey Coordinator.

Materials, circa 1976-1990, relating to North Carolina Architecture, Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building , Bishir's shorter works on architecture and historic preservation, and meetings and conferences of several professional organizations.