Therefore, some of descriptions will have greater detail. A Directory from which I based my initial mail survey. Reference works such as this are invaluable to research. The directory provides further information on all the repositories listed in this survey, such as hours of operation, telephone numbers, services and access restrictions. I organized the survey into three major parts and three appendices.
Entries appear alphabetically by city or town, and alphabetically by institution thereafter.
Unless otherwise specified, dates listed refer only to dates of records, not vital statistics. If collections have assigned reference numbers or call numbers, I have included them. An index follows the appendices for additional reference. It is important to note again that this list of records and collections is only the uppermost tip of the pyramid of possible resources for documenting and studying North Carolina buildings. Drawings are vital, but they only report only the infancy of a building's life.