WRAL:
when [the current] Lt. Gov. took office in January, she found little trace of [a prior publicized effort to renovate and refurnish the home]. Her staff entered the Hawkins-Hartness House to find many of the rooms empty or sparsely outfitted, including what would be the lieutenant governor’s executive office.
Her term had started more like an episode of “Scooby-Doo”: Who took the furniture from the creaky mansion on Blount Street? But the culprit wasn’t hiding behind the drapes in this mystery. Because the drapes were gone, too.