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Blowing Rock Dedicates Daingerfield’s Edgewood Cottage

Historic Attraction Now Open to the Public

Story by Bernadette Cahill Mayor J.B. Lawrence does the honors at a ceremonial ribbon cutting during the official opening of the restored cottage of artist Elliott Daingerfield in Blowing Rock on Sunday.

Blowing Rock’s newest historic attraction was well and truly christened on Sunday, June 22, when a downpour sent attendees at the late afternoon ribbon cutting scurrying indoors.

The crowd packed like sardines into little Edgewood Cottage—artist Elliott Daingerfield’s first home in Blowing Rock—and cheered in delight when Mayor J.B. Lawrence cut the ceremonial ribbon and declared the cottage open to the public.
Ginny Stevens, Blowing Rock Historical Society vice president and chair of the Edgewood Cottage Project, thanked the many individuals whose hard work, commitment and donations made the restoration and opening possible.

In particular, she thanked Daingerfield’s grandsons Joe and Elliott Dulaney, and their wives Raleigh and Julie, for contributing countless artifacts from their collection of Daingerfield memorabilia. Those artifacts are the foundation of the cottage’s exhibits illustrating the history of the artist’s life.

Others thanked for their support and hard work were the Boone Construction Company, the town of Blowing Rock, Jerry Burns, Thelma Coffey, Brenda Mauney Councill, the Edgewood Cottage Committee members who steered the project, Bonnie and Jamie Schaefer and Dr. Larry and Alice Heaverin who donated Daingerfield artworks.

Blowing Rock Historical Society President Loyd Smith, who introduced Mayor Lawrence for the ribbon cutting said, “There were almost 200 contributors of time, money and antiques that are of the period, and they have our gratitude from now on. Edgewood Cottage, along with the historic Methodist Church, the historic Presbyterian Church and the historic St Mary’s Church, all of these within a stone’s throw of each other, will forever visibly comprise an historic anchor to the entire South Main Street in Blowing Rock, and that is unequalled probably in any place in North Carolina and maybe further.”