Morgan Hall, Penland, N.C.

Morgan Hall, Penland, N.C.

Appalachian School (Penland, N.C.)

Education, Elementary

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

Missions

Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Handicrafts

Penland Weavers and Potters

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This photographic postcard depicts the fireplace in the large living room of Morgan Hall on the campus of the Appalachian School in Penland, North Carolina, circa 1920s-1938. The scene includes many handmade items such as wrought iron andirons and lighting fixtures, broom, and stool. The photograph for this postcard was taken by Bayard Wootten sometime during the 1920s-1930s. Morgan Hall was built in 1917 as a rectory for the school and served many functions for the school, including faculty residence, dormitory, classroom, and weaving room for the Division of Fireside industries (c. 1923-26). Several years after its construction the structure was named Morgan Hall in honor of the Rev. Rufus Morgan, the mission school's director from 1914 to 1918. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the umbrella institution under which the Penland Weavers and Potters were organized and the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) was established.

Unknown

Penland School of Crafts Records

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1920/1938

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959

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StillImage

12553

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2006-05-11

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Appalachian Region, Southern

3.25" x 5.25"(dimension)

Craft Revival