- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Gimghoul Castle, U.N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Creator:
- Graycraft Card Co. (Danville, Va.)
- Publisher:
- Danville, Va.: Graycraft Card Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1915/1930
- Subject:
- Castles--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Order of Gimghoul
Postcards--North Carolina--Chapel Hill - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Orange County, Chapel Hill, 35.9132, -79.05584
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (black and white, white border, divided back, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) titled: Gimghoul Castle, U. N. C., Chapel Hill, N. C. - The castle, located on Gimghoul Road in Chapel Hill, was originally known as Hippol Castle. It is said to have taken somewhere between 4 and 6 years to build, beginning in the early 1920's at a cost of $50,000. Artisans from France were hired to painstakingly cut the 1,300 tons of stones used to construct it. No descriptive text on reverse. Card number CH-6-917.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-245
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-245#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-245/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : b&w. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
