Within this volume the reader will find
biographical profiles of the twenty-six women who have served North
Carolina as first lady
between 1891 and 2001. This book covers the women who
resided at the
Governors Executive
mansion at 200 North Blount Street in Raleigh, the four-story Queen Anne-style Victorian official residence built between 1883 and 1891 and in continual use since that time.
The women treated in this volume differ markedly in terms of their upbringing, education, marriages, and family. Once their husbands--or, in two cases, their fathers--became governor, their lives changes dramatically. Their roles and duties expanded to meet the social expectations of their times, their husbands' constitutional duties, their own interests, and their obligations as overseers of a substantial household enterprise in its own right.
This book includes a brief history of the Executive Mansion, a list of North Carolina's first ladies prior to 1889, and photographs of some inaugural ball gowns worn between 1889 and 2001..
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