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Tag	Oral History - Anthony Tony Lord 395
Title	Lord, Anthony Tony
Oral History Identifier	Number OH-VOA L67 An
Collection URL	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/VOA/I_M/Lord_A.html
Creator Interviewee	Anthony Tony Lord
Creator Interviewer	Dorothy Joynes
Date of Interview	1993-01-18
Interview Location	267 Flint St., Asheville, NC
Date Digital	2005-06-20
Subject	Keyword: Architecture ; Asheville Buncombe Library System ; UNC Asheville ; Sondley Collection ; Tree and Greenway Commission ; Quality Forward ; Six Associates LCSH: Lord, Anthony (Tony), 1900-1993 Asheville (N.C.) -- History Libraries and community -- North Carolina Architecture -- North Carolina
Description	Abstract: Anthony Lord describes his career as an architect in Asheville. He also discusses his involvement with the Asheville-Buncombe Library System Board of Trustees, which began with his appointment in 1945. He describes the old Pack Memorial Public Library, its lack of space and his push for the larger building on Haywood Street. He describes the Sondley Collection and a stipulation in the document willing it to the library which reserved it for the use of well-conducted, non-smoking, white people. The will eventually was broken. Lord describes how the first library branch was for Asheville's black residents. He notes that desegregation changed this system. Lord describes his urging of city officials to plant trees in downtown Asheville and to save existing trees when new construction occurred. His 1945 donation of two trees for Pritchard Park led eventually to the formation of the city's Tree Commission, which worked with civic groups and utility companies. He discusses the Asheville Art Museum's 1984 show of his watercolors, ironwork and architecture.
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville
Contributors	Lord, Anthony Tony
Type	Sound ; Text ; Image
Format	10-page abstract ; 2 90-minute audiocassettes and 2 copies ; 5 color photographs ; newspaper articles and brochures
Source	Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection
Language	English
Coverage-Temporal	1930's-1993
Coverage-Spatial	Asheville, NC
Rights-Access Rights	No restrictions: Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law
Date Acquired	1998
Relation	SHRC Henry Irven Gaines Oral History ; VOA John Bridges Oral History ; VOA Mary Parker Oral History

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