Secrets of the Greensboro Masonic Temple
Masons have had a presence in Greensboro since shortly after the city’s founding, but few know about the history and architecture behind the façade of the fraternal organization’s impressive Temple…
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Lost Greensboro: The Benbow House Hotel
In the economic devastation that followed the Civil War, Greensborough’s reputation as a city of comfortable hotel accommodations was badly bruised. Earlier fine hotels such as the Southern Hotel on…
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The Secrets of Kirkwood
Long before Kirkwood became a neighborhood of tidy post-War housing, the area featured scattered semi-rural farms and estates with notable homes and varied recreation areas. Development of neighborhoods north of…
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More Clues Revealed in Albright House History
For those driving on Friendly Avenue in west Greensboro, it is clear that work is underway on one of Greensboro’s most highly anticipated restoration projects. Recent insights on the history…
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Secrets of Captain Fisher’s Park
Before there was a Center City Park, before there was a Lindley Park, and even before there was an Irving Park, Fisher Park reigned as Greensboro’s premiere civic open space.…
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Who done it? Reading the Clues of an Old House
The Junior League of Greensboro may have a real treasure on their hands! Named to Preservation Greensboro’s inaugural Treasured Places Watch List in 2005, the Albright House has kept its…
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Happiness and “Hello, Bill!”
Christmastime was on the minds of mill workers at Greensboro’s Revolution Mills in October of 1920, when the regional Mill News: The Great Southern Weekly for Textile Workers was published.…
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What is Greensboro’s Oldest House?
The answer to the title of this article depends on how you ask the question. Greensboro has been around for almost 200 years, and in that time houses have been…
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Spooky Spots in Downtown Greensboro
We are an old city full of old places, and old places often feature ghosts. With Halloween on our minds this week, I have been asked to give the inside…
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Take a Colorful Weekend Tour
Are you one of those folks who enjoy taking historic architecture tours of cities you visit, but know little of your own hometown? If you are, a few seats remain…
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Greensboro’s Tobacco Heritage, Part 3
To paraphrase a popular proverb, “it takes a village to raise a cigarette”…or a tobacco product. Nineteenth-century Greensboro was certainly one of those villages, with all phases of tobacco manufacturing…
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The 1890s was a time of change for Greensboro, as the sleepy county seat with a smattering of manufacturing facilities grew into a small city laden with industry. Shaded village…
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