This Holiday Gift Set Includes the Following Products:

• Moses Cone Estate: Winter Print (8in x 10in)

  The Blue Ridge Parkway receives multiple snowfalls every year. The ever changing altitudes of the Parkway can make winter conditions change quickly as you drive. The Parkway roadway may be closed in certain sections of the Parkway during winter. A glistening winter exposure of the Manor House at Moses H Cone Memorial Park. You may click the "Enlarge View" button to view a larger image of the photograph.

  Location: Manor House (Moses H Cone Memorial Park)

  Photograph By: James Martin Davis

  Available In: 8" x 10"

• A Mansion in the Mountains: The Story of Moses and Bertha Cone and their Blowing Rock Manor

  This book tells the engrossing story of Moses and Bertha Cone, builders of the stunning Flat Top Manor in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Wilma Dykeman, a noted author of Appalachian books, said, "The most surprising fact about The Story of Moses and Bertha Cone and their Blowing Rock Manor is that it has waited so long to be told...This historic dwelling and the grandeur of its diminished but still significant natural setting once belonged to a family whose emergence reflects much of our national history. To suggest the scope of influence: Cone family roots in America began with the arrival in 1846 of a seventeen-year-old German immigrant in backwoods of Virginia and his rise from a peddler to a successful merchant in Baltimore. His son, Moses Cone, became one of the country's leading textile manufacturers, Southern philanthropist, and builder of Flat Top Manor. Two of his daughters were intimate friends of Gertrude Stein and French painters of the period." Catheri! ne W. Bishir, author of North Carolina Architecture, said, "With a keen sense of the people and their times, Noblitt offers intriguing glimpses into the Cone family operation of textile mills and villages, the social life and manners in the mansion, the workmen who ran the estate grounds and orchards, and, not least, the adventures of Moses' art collecting sisters, Claribel and Etta Cone and their friendships in Paris with Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and Henri Mattise. This is a great story, well told."

• Moses H. Cone's Flat Top Manor Collector's Ornament

  This beautiful Flat Top Manor ornament is the first of the Foundation's "Share the Journey®" Limited Edition Series of 24k gold-on-brass ornaments by the Charleston Mint. The ornament was designed in recognition of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park located near Blowing Rock, NC at Milepost 294 of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Manor was the centerpiece of the country estate of Moses H. Cone, a prosperous textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. The family-owned Cone Mills became the world's leading producer of denim which led to Moses being referred to as "The Denim King." The manor was a gleaming white 20-room, 13,000 square foot mansion built in 1901 in the grand Colonial Revival style. It is now the home of the Parkway Craft Center, one of five shops of the Southern Highland Craft Guild which features handmade crafts by hundreds of regional artists.