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Category Archives: Community Investment

Pilot Life Campus Represents North Carolina’s First Office Park

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, High Point Preservation News, News, Treasured Places Watch ListBy Benjamin BriggsSeptember 30, 2022

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…

Urban Renewal: What Were They Thinking?

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Lost Greensboro, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 31, 2022

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…

North Carolina’s Historic Tax Credits Extended

Community InvestmentBy Benjamin BriggsDecember 2, 2021

Governor Roy Cooper’s signing of the North Carolina State Budget for 2022 on November 18th, 2021 is good news for historic preservation interests. The new budget allowed for expansion and…

The 2021 Watch List Reveals Struggles and Challenges in Preservation Efforts

Community Investment, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, Treasured Places Watch ListBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 20, 2021

Since 2005, Preservation Greensboro’s Treasured Places Watch List has served as an advocacy and education initiative of Preservation Greensboro to promote historic places and preservation strategies. Recognition to the Watch…

The Secrets of College Hill

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Secrets of..., Tour of Historic HomesBy Benjamin BriggsMay 12, 2021

College Hill has the distinction of being Greensboro’s best-preserved nineteenth century neighborhood with narrow streets lined with Queen Anne cottages, charming bungalows, and interwar apartment buildings. Packed with history and…

Century Old Tate Street House Was Home to Renaissance Woman

Architecture, Community Investment, Greensboro HistoryBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 29, 2021

The College Hill Historic District is composed of numerous subdivisions, some large, some small, sprinkled with numerous individual houses that were built as early as 1845. This patchwork quilt provides…

The Secrets of the Southside Neighborhoods

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Secrets of..., Social Equity, Tour of Historic HomesBy Benjamin BriggsOctober 12, 2020

If you haven’t visited Southside and South Elm Street – south of the railroad tracks – in a few years, my how things have changed. Once the redheaded stepchild of…

Guilford Landmarks May Increase by Four

Architecture, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 28, 2020

Four historic landmark designations have been submitted from the Guilford County Historic Preservation Commission for designation to the Greensboro City Council. Each property represents major themes of Greensboro history including…

Historic Preservation for Improved Social Equity

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 6, 2020

Historic preservation has served a central role in American history, and over the past 30 years, it held an increasingly relevant role in preserving sites of Black history in Greensboro.…

Brooks House Granted Landmark Designation

Architecture, Community Investment, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsDecember 18, 2019

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…

South Elm Building with Interesting History is Designated

Architecture, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsNovember 25, 2019

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…

College Hill’s Victorian Troika

Architecture, Community Investment, Greensboro HistoryBy Benjamin BriggsAugust 29, 2019

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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