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There will be an open house at the Wake
Forest College Birthplace, the Calvin
Jones House, on North Main Street
Tuesday, but the invitations mailed to
the neighbors in the historic district
had the wrong day, saying Thursday. The
correct date and time are Tuesday, June
26, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The neighbors and other
interested people will be able to see
the latest gifts to the museum. Sherrill
and Susan Brinkley have donated an 1845
grand piano, an 1830 sofa and an 1835
mantel clock. The items were in the
Brinkley’s home, Wakefields, until they
sold it recently.
“These are all things we
will make best use of as we furnish this
house as it may have been between 1820
and 1847,” Ed Morris, the executive
director for the museum, said. The house
was built about 1820 by Dr. Calvin Jones
when he purchased land for a plantation
in the Forest of Wake and moved here
from Raleigh. In 1834 he sold the
property to the North Carolina Baptist
Convention for what was first a manual
institute and later Wake Forest College.
The house was the home of the first
college president, Dr. Samuel Wait,
until he retired in 1847.
Morris said the open house
will also be a time to display the
latest architects’ plans for the new
building, the museum annex, which will
be built behind the Calvin Jones House. |
