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Mary Claire Engstrom (October 1, 1906 – May 20, 1997) was an American writer and historian. She is best known for her active role in preserving historic buildings in the town of Hillsborough, North Carolina.^[1]

Engstrom was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and was the daughter of Lester L. Randolph and Florence Alberta Toynbee Randolph. She earned a PhD at the University of North Carolina in English literature in 1939, and did postdoctoral research at Harvard and Yale, specializing in 18-century satire.

With her husband, Alfred G. Engstrom (1907–1990), a professor of French at the university, she purchased the historic Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough.

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