WRIGHT BROTHERS NATIONAL MEMORIAL, NORTH CAROLINA
Visitor Center designed by Mitchell/Giurgola, 1957-59

View of main entrance.
(© Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, Slide Collection, University of Virginia.)
View of main entrance, doors at left.
View of concrete forms defining the exterior wall space.
Interior view of exhibition room and full-scale reproduction of Wright Brothers plane.
(© Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, Slide Collection, University of Virginia.)
Plan of building showing placement of Wright Brothers plane in exhibition room, offices, and other service areas.
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Plan showing relationship of road, parking area, visitor center and historic site after Mission 66 construction. Sketch by Romaldo Giurgola, architect.
(© Rowan, "Kitty Hawk Museum," Progressive Architecture. August, 1963: 113.)

   

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