Coltrane Project Moves Forward in High Point
Once nearly forgotten, the childhood home of jazz legend John Coltrane is slated for preservation and extended new use as an historic site. John William Coltrane was born in 1926…
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Brooks House Granted Landmark Designation
Once abandoned and occupied by squatters, the Margaret and Thornton Brooks House, located at 415 Sunset Drive in Irving Park, has been approved for designation as a Guilford County Landmark…
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South Elm Building with Interesting History is Designated
On October 15th 2019, the Greensboro City Council designated the Groome-Shevel Building at 532-534 South Elm Street a Guilford County Landmark property. Landmark designation means the community recognizes the property…
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The Miracle on Johnson Street: How Community Support Saved a Landmark
On a night in January 2012, a fire roared through the Dalton-Bell-Cameron House, a flagship residence of High Point’s Johnson Street Historic District. The house stands as the earliest documented…
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10 Tantalizing Tudors in Greensboro
Greensboro has a century-old love affair with the architecture of old England. Considering our revolutionary spat here in 1781, the affection might appear ironic, but Greensboro has long held an…
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College Hill’s Victorian Troika
On September 15, 1875, the Greensboro Patriot newspaper announced “Mr. Eugene Morehead has tendered the city the right of way for several beautiful streets over his lands on the South-Western…
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Eye-Catching Colonial Revival House on Lindley Park Tour
Joseph Marvin Hunt was born in Kernersville and was founder of the Hunt Brothers Plumbing and Heating Company. In 1902 he married Pattie Kirkman of Walker Avenue, and the couple…
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The Secrets of Lindley Park
The western quadrant of Greensboro grew quickly in the late nineteenth century. Residential and commercial growth followed jobs spurred by prime industrial sites adjacent to the North Carolina Railroad and…
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A&T’s Amazing Architectural Legacy
Most in Greensboro celebrate the fact that North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T) is the largest historically black university in the nation, and most recognize it is a…
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Greensboro’s Grandest Estate Has New Owners
Adamsleigh, the sprawling mansion built in 1929 by textile magnate John Hampton Adams, was sold on November 7th. The Tudor-style estate in Sedgefield will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2019,…
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Living Large: The Rise of Modern Apartments in Greensboro, Part III
The third of a three-part series reviewing the history of apartment housing in Greensboro. By 1940, Greensboro was evolving from a small city to a regional industrial and insurance center…
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Living Large: The Rise of Modern Apartments in Greensboro, Part II
The second of a three-part series reviewing the history of apartment housing in Greensboro. The completion of the Vick Apartments on East Fisher Avenue in 1919 – the first exclusively…
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