NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 1058

HOUSE BILL 793

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ASSIST THE RESTORATION OF HARMONY HALL IN THE CITY OF KINSTON.

Whereas, Harmony Hall in the City of Kinston in Lenoir County is the only surviving eighteenth century building in the City of Kinston, the original portion thereof having been constructed in the last quarter of the eighteenth century; and

Whereas, the house served as the residence of James Glasgow, Secretary of State during the Richard Caswell administration, and was owned by Governor Caswell; and

Whereas, the Kinston Woman's Club has donated Harmony Hall, its furnishings, the lot that it occupies, and one thousand dollars ($1,000) in the memory of Ann Hood Capps to the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc.; and

Whereas, the City of Kinston and Lenoir County can greatly benefit from the restoration of the house as a museum and community and visitor's center; and

Whereas, the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc., has raised fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in State, county, city, and local funds for the purpose of restoring and preserving Harmony Hall; and

Whereas, the Lenoir County Historical Association has reroofed the main section of the house, conducted historical and archaeological research, prepared measured drawings of the structure, and is now preparing working drawings for the restoration of Harmony Hall; and

Whereas, there is a need for additional State funding to carry out the preservation and restoration of Harmony Hall; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1977-78 fiscal year the sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000), twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) of which will be available to the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc., for the purpose of continuing the exterior restoration of Harmony Hall, the remainder of which will be used by the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, to provide technical services to the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc., for the project provided an amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) is raised by the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc.; and for the 1978‑79 fiscal year the sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000), twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) of which will be available to the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc., for the purpose of completing the exterior restoration and beginning the interior restoration of Harmony Hall, the remainder of which will be used by the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, to provide technical services to the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc., for the project provided an amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) is raised by the Lenoir County Historical Association, Inc. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.