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[Identification of item], in the Arthur Cleveland Nash Papers #4061, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Mrs. Edward E. Caldwell of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1975. Additions received from Martha Caldwell of Chapel Hill, N.C., in December 2000 (Acc. 98804) and in February 2001 (Acc. 98849).

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• Architects--North Carolina.
• Arnold family.
• Bedon family.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History--20th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Cleveland family.
• Cox family.
• Cox, Samuel Hanson, 1793-1880.
• Coxe family.
• Coxe, Arthur Cleveland, 1818-1896.
• Diplomatic and consular service, American.
• Episcopal Church--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Forman family.
• Genealogy.
• Gindrat family.
• Hanson family.
• Kent family.
• Nash family.
• Nash, Arthur Cleveland, 1871-1969.
• Nash, Joshua, d. 1863.
• Nash, Paul, d. 1913.
• Pendarvis family.
• Presbyterian Church--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Rossetti, Gabriele, 1783-1854.
• Screven family.
• Sewall family.
• Tucker family.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Buildings.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Photographs.

• Arnold and Screven Family Papers (#3419), and
• Wallace Everett Caldwell Papers (#3556), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Arthur Cleveland Nash was born in Geneva, N.Y., in 1871. He attended Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Beaux Arts Institute in Paris. On 12 August 1914, he married Mary Screven Arnold. From 1922 until 1930, he served as architect of the University of North Carolina; he served as consulting architect until 1952. He subsequently moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked in architecture until his retirement in 1953. He died in Baltimore in 1969.

Arthur Cleveland Nash came from a prominent family, counting a number of accomplished men among his ancestors. Captain Joshua Nash II, merchant seaman and maritime agent for the Italian government in the 1840s, married Paulina Tucker, the daughter of Beza Tucker and Margaret Tucker, who married again and became Margaret Tucker Kent after Beza Tucker's death. Joshua and Paulina Tucker Nash's son, Francis Philip Nash, married Katherine Cleveland Coxe, daughter of Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Episcopal Bishop of Western New York. Francis Philip Nash and Katherine Cleveland Coxe had two sons: Paul Nash, who served in several United States consulates until his death in Budapest in 1913, and Arthur Cleveland Nash.

The Arthur Cleveland Nash papers consists of materials relating to his career as an architect, particularly his work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., and to Nash and related family history.

Architectural papers, 1938-1956, include correspondence, designs, tracings, photographs, and other materials relating chiefly to University of North Carolina building projects, including Gerrard Hall, Hill Hall, Wilson Library, and Kenan Stadium.

Nash family papers, 1859-1970 and undated, include correspondence and other documents relating to Arthur Cleveland Nash and to the activities of Nash family members. Tucker and Nash family papers, 1818-1831, include correspondence and other materials relating to Tucker and Nash family members., including letters of Captain Joshua Nash about to his travels in Germany and Italy. Among these are letters from various Italian acquaintances, including one from poet Gabriele Rossetti. There are also letters of Paul Nash, Arthur Cleveland Nash's brother, that discuss his career as a United States Consul in Siam, Italy, Hungary, and England. Many of the Cleveland and Coxe (Cox) family papers, 1756-1932, relate to Arthur Cleveland Nash's maternal grandfather, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, who served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, 1865-1896, or to Arthur Cleveland Coxe's father, Samuel Hanson Cox, and his pastorate at the Presbyterian Church of New York, 1833-1854. Other genealogical materials, 1853-1971 and undated, relate to the Cleveland, Coxe (Cox), Nash, Screven, Arnold, Sewall, Gindrat, Forman, Hanson, Tucker, Kent, Pendarvis, and Bedon families. Photographs include some relating to Arthur Cleveland Nash's architectural projects at the University of North Carolina, and others that relate to members of the Nash, Coxe, Screven, Tucker, and Arnold families. Some photographs relate to Paul Nash's wedding to Baroness Margherita Maynori in 1905 and to his life as United States Consul in Venice, Italy. There are also pages from two albums, containing photographs of places and people in Chapel Hill, N.C., Washington, D.C., and Nantucket, Mass., mostly in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Separated items include four medals, a set of drafting tools, a money clip, and a bishop's cameo, all transferred to the North Carolina Collection Gallery. Other separated items include about 200 photographs (P-4061), seven oversized photographs (OP-P-4061), and a diploma (OP-4061).