Delphina Street: Greensboro’s Most Historic Secret
Delphina Street was an early community of Black landowners that was centered around St. Paul’s A. M. E. Zion Church in today’s Westerwood neighborhood. It was established in the early…
DetailsDelphina Street was an early community of Black landowners that was centered around St. Paul’s A. M. E. Zion Church in today’s Westerwood neighborhood. It was established in the early…
Anna-Kristina Hoffman, an Archaeology Major and Painting Minor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, completed her 2022 internship with Preservation Greensboro by answering this basic question: How did the…
The economic prosperity brought on by Greensboro’s insurance, banking, tobacco, and textile ventures in the early 20th century resulted in a remarkable architectural patrimony that is of statewide importance for…
The architecturally progressive and ambitious designs provided by the faculty and graduates of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) in the mid-20th century are increasingly taking center stage…
Long before television and social media reigned supreme as venues for the exchange of ideas, printed “shelter” and lifestyle magazines were the arbiters of fashionable trends among architects and influencers.…
In 1928, an innovative suburban office campus opened in Sedgefield, a recreational-themed mixed-use community located between two of the largest industrialized cities in North Carolina: Greensboro and High Point. Pilot…
In 1918, J. Van Lindley announced plans for the development of his property in west Greensboro, previously leased by an amusement park. He gifted 44 acres along the North Buffalo…
One of only a dozen brick dwellings built before 1840 in County, the Scott House is located just north of Greensboro. The house was likely constructed by Thomas Scott (1790-1835)…
The Grimsley-Fry House on Fisher Park Circle sports an esteemed history and serves as a touchstone to a talented French-born architect. Constructed in 1907 for Cynthia and George Grimsley, this…
The Random Woods neighborhood occupies a gentle valley located between two ridges marked by Fairfax Road to the west and Merritt Drive to the east. True to Greensboro planning traditions,…
From the perspective of those living in the twenty-first century, a community reinvestment plan that entails the destruction of the focus neighborhood seems to be a contradiction in terms. How…
Mrs. Sol. Weill purchased the site of 314 South Elm Street in July of 1898 with the intention of building a sizeable structure to house the Simpson-Shields Shoe Company. Greensboro-based…
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