Finding Aid of the Horace McGuire Wood Papers, 1933 - 1972, PC.1517
Abstract
Horace McGuire Wood (1902-1972) came to Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
in 1942 to become the school's business manager and director of the work experience
program. He later taught design and construction courses. After leaving the college
in December 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Wood continued to live in the town of Black Mountain,
where he conducted a house planning and building seminar for many years.
This collection includes correspondence from both during and after Wood's time at
Black Mountain College, work experience program materials, minutes of faculty meetings,
Black Mountain College publications, house plans, site plans, and other materials.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Horace McGuire Wood Papers
- Call Number
- PC.1517
- Creator
-
Wood, Horace McGuire, 1902-1972
- Date
- 1933 - 1972
- Extent
- 325.00 items
- Language
-
English
- Repository
-
Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina
Restrictions on Access & Use
Use Restrictions
Copyright is retained by the authors of these materials, or their descendants, as
stipulated by United States copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Individual researchers
are responsible for using these materials in conformance with copyright law as well
as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], PC.1517, Horace McGuire Wood Papers, State Archives of North
Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, NC, USA.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by type of material.
Biographical and Historical No
Horace McGuire Wood (1902-1972) of Pittsford and Rochester, New York, majored in art
and aesthetics at Antioch College after graduation in 1926, he worked for the next
several years as a designer and builder of small homes in Rochester and in Delray
Beach, Florida. In 1942 he and his friend Gorman Mattison, who was directing the funding
activities at Antioch College, were invited by Theodore Dreier to Black Mountain College;
Wood to be business manager and to direct the work experience program, Mattison to
handle publicity and the fund raising. Mrs. Dorothy Mattison, a newspaper woman, became
director of the college news bureau; Wood later taught design and construction courses
at the college. The Mattisons left Black Mountain in the summer of 1942 for a position
with the community chest of Pittsburgh, PA. Wood was associated with the college until
he resigned in December, 1945. However, Mr. and Mrs. Wood continued to live in the
town of Black Mountain, where he conducted a house planning and building seminar for
many years. For additional biographical information see Black Mountain College Records,
Faculty File.
Contents of the Collection
1. Correspondence
2. Work Program Materials
3. Miscellaneous
4. Printed and Mimeographed Materials, Black Mountain College, 1934-1972
Community Bulletins [Mimeographed]
Box P.C. 1517.2
Summer Quarter Ends, September 9, 1942
Bulletin 19,February 23, 1943
Bulletin 22,March 15, 1943
Bulletin 27,April 26, 1943
Summer Bulletin 2,June 21, 1943
Summer Bulletin 3,June 28, 1943
Summer Bulletin 5,July 12, 1943
Summer Bulletin 6,July 19, 1943
Summer Bulletin 7,July 26, 1943
Summer Bulletin 9,August 9, 1943
Bulletin 29,April 24, 1944
Summer Bulletin 2,July 10, 1944
Summer Bulletin 3,July 17, 1944
Summer Bulletin 5,July 31, 1944
Summer Bulletin 7,August 14, 1944
Summer Bulletin 11,September 11, 1944
Summer Bulletin 12,September 18, 1944
Bulletin 1,September 25, 1944
Fall Quarter Announcements,September 30, 1944
Bulletin 2,October 2, 1944
Bulletin 3,October 9, 1944
Bulletin 4,October 16, 1944
Bulletin 5,October 23, 1944
Bulletin 6,October 30, 1944
Bulletin 7,November 6, 1944
Bulletin 8,November 13, 1944
Bulletin 9,November 20, 1944
Bulletin 13,January 11, 1945
Bulletin 15,January 29, 1945
Bulletin 19,February 26, 1945
Bulletin 20,March 5, 1945
Bulletin 1,September 1946
Newsletters and Bulletins
No. 13, Second Annual Visitors' Week, May 1941
No. 15, Ninth Year Begins in New Quarters, October 1941
No. 16, The College's Part in National Defense, November 1941
No. 2, Josef Albers, Concerning Art Instruction, June 1934
No. 5, Anni Albers, Work with Material, November 1938
No. 7, Erwin Straus, Education in a Time of Crisis [Address, May 1940], April 1941
No. 8, n.d., Kenneth Kurtz, Black Mountain College, Its Aims and Methods, reprint
from Haverford Review, Winter 1944
Black Mountain College Bulletin
Vol. 1, No. 1, , Announcement of Wartime Scholarships, November 1942
Vol. 1, No. 2, Newsletter: Liberal Education Today as a Tool of War, January 1943
Vol. 1, No. 3, [sic], Learning and Living, February 1943
Vol. 1, No. 3, Newsletter: Three-Fold Summer Program at Lake Eden, April 1943
Vol. 1, No. 6, Annual Announcements, 1943-1944, November 1943
Vol. 2, No. 1, Newsletter: College Begins Eleventh Session, September 1943
Vol. 2, No. 3, Catalog, December 1943
Vol. 2, No. 7, Newsletter: Summer Session and Work Camp, 1944, April 1944
Vol. 3, No. 8, Now New Space [brochure], August 1945
__________, Special Issue for Announcements, 1945-1946, July 1945
Vol. 3, No. 5, Newsletter: Music Institute, Summer 1945, April 1945
Vol. 4, No. 1, Newsletter: Fall Term 1945, November 1945
__________, Art Institute, Summer 1946, April 1946
Vol. 5, No. 3, Announcements, 1947-1948, April 1947
Vol. 5, No. 7, Community News, etc., November 1947
Vol. 6, No. 1, Opinions of former Students: No Agreement, January 1948
Vol. 6, No. 3, Announcements, 1948-1949, April 1948
Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer Institute, 1949, April 1949
Vol. 7, No. 4, The New Year, November 1949
Vol. 8, No. 1, n.d., Bulletin, 1950-1951
Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall, 1950, August 20, 1950
Vol. 9, No. 1, Summer Session, 1951
Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring Semester, 1952
Vol. 10, No. 4, Bulletin, 1952-1953
Miami Daily News, Walter Locke [editorial], Realm of the Road, reprint., November 16, 1934
John Evarts, College at Black Mountain Operated as an Experiment in New System of
Education, December 16, 1934
Asheville Citizen-Times, James M. Rogers, Students Building New Plant, reprint., September 29, 1940
[Weekly Newspaper], Lorimer Heywood, Construction Job is Made a Part of College Training, December 22, 1940
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Students and Faculty Construct their College Building, January 12, 1941
New York World-Telegram, Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, April 10, 1941
New York Herald Tribune, John O'Neill, Physicist Finds Humans Exhale Electric Smoke, May 3, 1941.
Asheville Citizen, Black Mountain College is Left Musical Library, September 30, 1941.
Asheville Citizen, Black Mountain College Founder John Rice Dies, November 28, 1968
Asheville Citizen, School Expands to Second Campus, Christian Day Opens Black Mountain
Branch, August 27, 1970
Christian Science Monitor, Chaffee Castleton, Summer Visit to a Gropius House, March 23, 1972
Summer Art Institute Will Begin Monday at Black Mountain College, n.d.
Drama Department, Ethan Frome, March 11, 1943
Drama Department, The Imaginary Invalid, March 16, 1943
First Music Institute: Third Concert, Yella Pessl, Harpsicord, January 22, 1944
First Music Institute: Ninth Concert, Choral Music, September 2, 1944
Reading of Student Writing, August 26, 1951
Poster, A Summer of Music and Art, July 3-, September 16, [1944]
Black Mountain College, And Beyond The Duration, 1941-1942
Black Mountain College, List of students and faculty, 1949-1950
Black Mountain College, ca. 1950
Black Mountain College, These Artists have Chosen to Teach at BMC, Fall 1951
Black Mountain, North Carolina: A bulletin issued by the Chamber of Commerce, 1953-1954
Black Mountain College, A Research Project, October 1970
Black Mountain College, n.d.
Josef Albers, Newspaper and Magazine Articles About
Arts and Decoration, Grace A. Young, Art as a Fourth 'R', reprint., January 1935
Harper's Magazine, John A. Rice, Fundamentalism and the Higher Learning, reprint., May 1937
California Arts and Architecture, John Evarts, Democracy in Action, July 1941
Friends, A Stirring Example of Democratic Education, February 1942.
Mademoiselle, Virginia, College of the Future, March 1942
Click, The College that Built Itself, 1943
The Listener, Alastair Clayre, The Rise and Fall of Black Mountain College, March 27, 1969
Mountain Living, reprint in the Black Mountain News, Black Mountain College was Ahead
of its Time, September 16, 1971
5. House Plans and Site Plans,1935-1965
1. Mr. and Mrs. Robin Amoss
2. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Beamen
4. Mr. and Mrs. William Birzil
8. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph P. Bridgman
9. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Christy
10. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Coman
11. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Connelly
12. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coston, Jr.
13. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Crisp
14. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. De Vore
15. Miss G. V. Eisele and Miss E. C. Dickinson
16. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Garton
17. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Gilkerson
18. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glenn
20. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Greene
21. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Gwin
22. Mr. and Mrs. Corly Hansen
23. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hartis
24. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. C. Helgreen
25. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Hiller, Jr.
27. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Holcombe
29. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Hollandsworth
30. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Howard
31. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Hutchins
32. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson
33. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Klumb
34. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kolton
35. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Leitenberger
36. Mr. and Mrs. J. Le Vine
37. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Lindholm
38. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Link
39. Mr. and Mrs. John D. McCready
40. Mr. and Mrs. William McMurray, Jr.
41. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maret
42. Mr. and Mrs. George Mayer
43. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Meadows
44. Meyer Construction Co.
45. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Montgomery
46. Mr. and Mrs. David Nache
48. Mr. and Mrs. Furman J. Owenby
49. Mr. and Mrs. Barclay K. Read
52. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Richert
53. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Robinson
54. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Robinson
55. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sanders
56. Mr. and Mrs. Craig Smith
57. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith
59. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sporberg
62. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Turner
63. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Uzzell
64. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Vaillancourt
66. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Weil
67. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Weiss
68. Mr. and Mrs. Rush Whiteside
69. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams
71. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wyant
72. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Yerkes
Development and Town Plans
1. Town of Black Mountain
2. Camp Dorothy Walls Property
3. CharmeldeeAcres [Charles Meyer]
4. Craggy View [D. M. Connelly]
6. North Fork Acres [H. M. Wood]
Subject Headings
Albers, Josef
Dreier, Theodore, 1902-1997
Gregory, Mary, 1914-
Wood, Horace McGuire, 1902-1972
Mattison, G. S.
Kurtz, Kenneth, 1907-
Orr, Robert C.
Rice, John Andrew, 1888-
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.). Board of Fellows
Architects--North Carolina--1930-1970
Architecture, Domestic--United States--20th century--Designs and plans
College teachers--North Carolina
College teachers
Universities and colleges
Design and construction
Dwellings
Study and teaching
Business
Finance
College students
Employment
Education, Humanistic
World War, 1939-1945
Farms
Dairy farms
Mica Mines and Mining
Artists
Classrooms
Designs and plans
Real estate development
College presidents
Administration
Planning
New York
Black Mountain (N.C.)
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. H. McGuire Wood, Black Mountain, North Carolina, July, 1972. Some
items were added to the collection by Mr. and Mrs. Gorman E. Mattison of Charlotte
about the same date. During March-April, 2012, these records were moved from the State
Archives building in Raleigh to the Western Regional Archives, Asheville, N.C.
Processing Information
Processed by Ellen Z. McGrew, October, 1972
Encoded by Ashley Yandle, May 13, 2002; additional encoding, May, 2010