page_title: James M. Canty
section_title: Residences
hierarchical_section_title: James M. Canty / Personal life / Residences
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context_page_description: James Munroe Canty was an American educator, school administrator, and businessperson. Canty was an acting principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1898, and is considered by West Virginia State as an acting president. Canty also served as the Superintendent of Mechanical Industries for West Virginia Colored Institute from 1893 through 1914.
  Canty was born in 1865 in Marietta, Georgia to former slaves. He attended public school from an early age, and worked numerous trades with his father, including as a carpenter, butcher, ironworker, and farmer. Following a friend's recommendation, Canty began attending Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1886 and graduated from the institute in 1890. After graduation, Canty served as the institute's commandant and head of its night school. When he returned to Marietta, he applied his trade in machinery at a carriage shop. After a year in Marietta, Canty received a letter from Booker T. Washington requesting that he write to James Edwin Campbell, principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute in Farm, West Virginia.
context_section_description: By 1905, Canty owned a farm consisting of 100 acres (40 ha) within 0.125 miles (0.201 km) of the institute's campus. Canty's home in Institute, known variously as the Canty House or "The Magnolia," was originally built around 1900 and renovated in 1923 by Canty and his wife Florence Lovett Canty into the current neoclassical structure. Following Canty's death in 1964, the house was purchased by West Virginia State College and became the only example of Neoclassical architecture on its campus. The house has been relocated three times, and served as an office building and the campus health clinic before becoming the site of the West Virginia State University Athletic Hall of Fame. The Canty House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 1988.
caption: Canty House
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