[citation needed] Under her leadership, and using an innovative revolving fund approach, Historic Annapolis Inc. was able to restore more than 30 buildings of all types from the mansions of the elite to the homes and businesses of common citizens throughout the 18th-century core of the city of Annapolis as well as working to restore and preserve the historic street-scapes of the city.
The house was returned to its 18th-century state and the garden were restored using archeological evidence as well as Paca's contemporary writings.
[9] Wright was born in 1910 in Newport News, Virginia, the daughter of U.S. naval officer Arthur St. Clair Smith and Anna Lena Salley.
While living in Beijing as a girl, she attended the Peking American School as a member of the class of 1928.
She raised three sons, two of whom became officers in the United States Navy, and one of whom is Henry Tutwiler Wright, a professor of anthropology.