Kathleen A. Nelson

Kathleen Nelson
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Kathleen Nelson

Jacksonville University

Kathleen Nelson, director of development at Flagler, shares Miner's excitement.

"It's kind of exciting," she said of the blueprints' recent unearthing.

The private college founded in 1968 has the blueprints today because one employee ignored an order from his boss years ago, Nelson said.

"George Patthey was an employee when it was still a hotel," Nelson said."His boss told him just to throw (the blueprints) away, they didn't need them."

Now director of the college's maintenance and physical plant, Patthey - who's worked on the property for 38 years - produced the blueprints when workers needed them to replace the roofs of several campus buildings.

"The people who were doing this got really interested in the blueprints and started putting them together with an inventory," Nelson said.

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"I don't know ... we don't know whose handwriting is what," Nelson said.

In addition to Edison, several prominent people were involved.
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"It's part of the unveiling of the mystery," Nelson said.

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Kathleen A. Nelson, CFREDirector of DevelopmentP. O. Box 1027St. Augustine, FL 32085-1027Phone: (904) 829-6481 x348Fax: (904) 826-0094

Annette and John Stewart of Flagler College, honoree Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne, and Murray Jenks and Kathleen Nelson of Flagler College.

Kathleen A. Nelson, CFRE

Kathleen Nelson is Flagler College's director of development.

She says many of the blueprints have handwritten notes changing or

elaborating on the plans

A conservation expert hired by the college says it will cost

about 73-thousand dollars to preserve the documents.