Student papers on the Kurtz Building have been digitized to preserve the texts for future researchers. The papers were written in the spring of 1988 for a class with Prof. Warren Hofstra. The papers are predominantly oral history interviews and cover the following topics:
- “An Overlook of the Construction of the Kurtz Building” (Interview with William Wine)
- “Cartwright Funeral Home” (Interview with Bruce Cartwright)
- “Interview with J. Thomas Boyd”
- “Kurtz Building and Valley Agriculture” (Interview with Ben Ritter)
- “Lucy Fitzhugh Kurtz” (Interview with Lorina Mae Faegans)
- “Snapp Interview”
- “Kurtz Building: Still of Use and Value to the Winchester Community” (Interview with Eleanor White)
- “The Kurtz Building as a Museum” (Interview with Karen Clay)
- “The Kurtz Building in Connection with the Business of the Community” (Interview with Ralph Snapp)
- “The Kurtz’s Building” (Brief sketch of the building’s history)
- “The Man Behind the Building” (Biographical sketch of Capt. George W. Kurtz)
- “The Preservation of the Kurtz Building” (Interviews with Pat Zontine and Sonya Tolley)
- “The Uses of the Kurtz Building During and After the Civil War”
- “Walls Can’t Talk” (Interview with George Ritter)
Please contact the office if you would like to review this collection in your research – but please keep in mind these are uncorrected student papers. Researcher discretion and additional verification is recommended for these sources.