Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center The Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center, formerly known as the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, was a hospital. Currently, it is a nursing care facility, but was the birthplace of former United States President James Earl Carter Jr., who was born there on October 1, 1924 when his mother was working there as a registered nurse. Originally built in 1921 by Doctors Samuel, Thaddeus and Bowman Wise, children of early Plains settlers Dr. Burr T. Wise and Laura Addy Wise, the 60-bed sanitarium was one of the first small hospitals in Georgia to be recognized
Miss Mary Lillian Duke donated the painting to Duke University. Since that time, it has belonged to the collection of the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham. Miss Mary Lillian Duke Miss Mary Lillian Duke is a 1911 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla. The painting is part of the collection of the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham. It depicts a portrait of Mary Lillian Duke Biddle(1887-1960), when she was 24 years of age and decided to have a portrait painting of her own. The portrait was painted inside a park, with one of Mary's hand resting on the