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Blandwood Museum Tours

Blandwood, a National Historic Landmark, is one of America’s great historic homes. The beginning of Romanticism in North Carolina and the progressive ideals of Governor John Motley Morehead are illustrated through the architecture, landscape, and decorative arts of Blandwood. The house is a prototype for the Italianate style, one of America’s most popular architectural genres of the nineteenth century. The museum features a collection of period furnishings and art, including key pieces original to the house.

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Constructed by Charles Bland on the crest of a hill on his wooded land, the earliest portions of the Bland’s Wood were completed around 1795. The two-story frame farmhouse was later acquired by the Morehead family, and subsequently expanded according to plans drawn by nationally renowned architect Alexander Jackson Davis of New York. Davis designed additions in the Tuscan Villa (Italianate) style that featured a central three-story tower, stucco walls, and a low roofline within a tripartite plan with flanking dependencies. Completed in 1846, it is considered the oldest standing example of Italianate architecture in the United States. Although the house and its grounds were showcased in Andrew Jackson Downing’s Romantic Movement publication Architecture of Country Houses (1850), its occupants held substantial roles in the industrialization of the North Carolina in the nineteenth century.

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Today, Blandwood is operated as a museum, and provides visitors with a remarkably thorough ensemble of mid-19th-century architecture, decorative arts, landscape paintings, and portraiture, much original the house. Socially, the house museum examines the stories of the Morehead family and the people who were enslaved here, including Hannah Jones and Tinnan Morehead, whom the Moreheads were dependent on to maintain their lifestyle. Nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, Blandwood was recognized by the United States Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark in 1988 based on its architectural contributions to American history.

Blandwood Museum Tours

Location: 447 W Washington St.

Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Hours of Operation

Closed Monday

Tues-Sat 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

(last tour of the day at 3:00 p.m.)

Sun 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

(last tour of the day at 4:00 p.m.)

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Tickets

General Admission $12

Senior/AAA/Military: $10

K-12: Free

 

Groups of 10 or more: $8/person

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*Blandwood Museum is closed on Thanksgiving Day; Christmas Eve; Christmas Day; and New Year’s Day, Sunday, January 1st – Wednesday, January 4th. The house will re-open for regular tours on Thursday, January 5th, 2023.

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There are few places that evoke such a diverse sense of American history as Greensboro. The cultural center of the Society of Friends in the South gave birth to such notable personalities as the resilient First Lady Dolley Madison, the enigmatic writer O. Henry, and the fearless Greensboro Four. Greensboro was also a stage for the American Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement. However, Greensboro’s historical legacy is not limited solely to personalities and pivot points. The city has long been home to a large and vibrant African American population, Southern Industrialists, and numerous institutions of higher learning have graced the city with a broad selection of architectural history, ranging from Federal and Greek Revival designs to Mid-Century Modern works, to name a few. Historic preservation is thriving our city center and surrounding neighborhoods and historic districts, as well as representation by treasured landmarks throughout the city.

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Preservation Greensboro
PO Box 13136
Greensboro NC 27415
336-272-5003
Offices Located in Blandwood Mansion

Blandwood Mansion
447 West Washington Street
Greensboro NC 27401
336-272-5003

Architectural Salvage of Greensboro
1028-B Huffman Street
In East Greensboro
336-389-9118

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