This Artwork Nouveau fashion dwelling was constructed within the Twenties by Edward Knight Jr and his spouse Marie Louise Lebel Bonat Knight, rich industrialists who had been a number of the first to remodel North Carolina's Outer Banks right into a vacation spot for the rich.
Each religious hunters, the Knights used their residence as a kind of searching membership. After their deaths in 1936, their non-public residence served quite a few completely different makes use of.
Within the Forties, the U.S Coast Guard utilized the mansion to deal with troops tasked with patrolling the North Carolina coast for enemy submarines and touchdown events. After the tip of the warfare, the home was become the Corolla College for Boys, a summer season college for well-off college students. In the course of the Chilly Battle within the Nineteen Sixties, the home was later used as a rocket analysis and testing facility operated by the Atlantic Analysis Company.
After the Company left in 1969 to discover a extra secluded location, the mansion fell into disuse and was fully restored within the late 90s. The home now stands as a well-liked landmark and museum, with an awesome view of the Currituck Lighthouse and sits within the Historic Corolla park together with its unique boathouse, a wildlife middle, and a maritime museum.
