Architectural rendering of the Anne and Benjamin Cone Building, circa 1987. The Cone Building, designed by architect Romaldo Giurgola working in conjunction with Boney Architects, of Wilmington, North Carolina, opened in 1989 and was named for Anne Wortham Cone (Class of 1935) and her husband, Benjamin Cone, Sr. The building houses the Weatherspoon Art Museum. The Weatherspoon Art Museum was founded in 1941 and named in honor of Elizabeth McIver Weatherspoon, art teacher and sister of founding President Charles Duncan McIver. It was originally called the Weatherspoon Art Gallery and was housed in the McIver Building, where it had a separate entrance. In 1989, the museum moved into the Cone Building which was named for Anne Wortham Cone (Class of 1935) and her husband, Benjamin Cone, Sr.
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Image
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Photographs
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Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
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xxx-ua104.3.194
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
