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1905–1989 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
The index holds one work for John V. Allcott so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
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Works about or by John V. Allcott. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
A history of the buildings on the University of North Carolina campus by John V. Allcott and JJ Bauer, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 2019. It follows campus construction from the 1790s forward: the plans behind each building campaign, the architects, and the university figures who pushed projects through. 132 pages with photographs, maps and plans.
John V. Allcott's history of the architecture of the University of North Carolina campus across two centuries, from the first buildings of the 1790s to the 1980s, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1986. A 108-page illustrated survey with a bibliography. Allcott taught art history at the university.
John V. Allcott, 1905 to 1989, on the early buildings of the University of North Carolina, printed as pages 374 to 381 of a New York periodical in 1978 with illustrations, some in color, and a map. A photograph of the Smith-Playmakers Theater appears on the preceding page. Topics include architecture and college buildings at Chapel Hill.
John V. Allcott's article on Alexander Jackson Davis and the library and ballroom he designed for the University of North Carolina, the building known since as Playmakers Theatre. An offprint from the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians for May 1974, pages 145 to 154, with illustrations and plans of the Chapel Hill building.
John V. Allcott's 1965 article on the building campaign at Montrose, the Hillsborough home of William A. Graham, during the 1850s. Allcott connects the work to the architect Alexander Jackson Davis, and the piece runs as pages 85 to 95 of a larger publication, with illustrations.
Papers of the architectural historian John V. Allcott (1905-1989), spanning the 1900s to 1986 in 500 items, half a linear foot, some of them photocopies, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4480. The papers relate to his books 'Campus at Chapel Hill: two hundred years of architecture' and 'Colonial homes in North Carolina', and to domestic and college architecture in the state.
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