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Title Flat Top Manor Windows Bldg. #359
Title Note Classification No. 728; Negative No. 5055
Date August 22, 1975
Description View of glass door entrance and the shadows of two people on glass at Moses H. Cone Memorial Park off of milepost 294, section 2G of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters and taken by F.A. Ketterson Jr. on August 22, 1975.
Commentary Flat Top Manor construction started in 1988 and finished in 1901; the manor has twenty-three rooms. The manor is named so because of its nearness to Flat Top Mountain.
Location Location Name: Moses H. Cone Memorial Park
Parkway Milepost: 294.0
Latitude: 36.15457
Longitude: -81.68761
Creator Individual F.A. Ketterson, Jr.
Tags Doors
Flat Top Manor (Blowing Rock, N.C.)
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park (N.C.)
Photographs
Watauga County (N.C.)
Window details
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway