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Category Archives: Greensboro Preservation News

Architectural Salvage: The Rescue of Old House Parts

Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 11, 20083 Comments

Preservation Greensboro has a national reputation among preservation organizations through several initiatives, including America’s earliest Tuscan Villa, Blandwood Mansion, and the Blandwood Ball. However, a great deal of attention is…

Not Old Enough To Be Historic

Greensboro Preservation News, Modern ArchitectureBy Benjamin BriggsJune 25, 2008

The easy ones are the old ones, the grand ones, and the famous ones. The historic preservation movement has rarely been challenged in protecting superlative places. If it’s the oldest…

Is Greensboro’s Railroad Heritage at Risk?

Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsJune 10, 20081 Comment

North Carolina is playing center stage in a proposed amendment to a Congressional bill that would jump start America’s railroads. According to Preservation Action, the nation’s only grassroots voice for…

Greensboro City Council Approves Landmark Recognition

Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsJune 9, 2008

A celebrated Greensboro residence in the Fisher Park neighborhood has been resurrected and recognized as an official county landmark. The Greensboro City Council has approved Guilford County Landmark designation for…

Guilford County’s “Carolina Dutch” Heritage Recognized

Architecture, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsMay 23, 2008

Last evening, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners approved the designation of the Ludwick Summers House at 6420 Woellner’s Way near Gibsonville as a Guilford County Landmark property. Chairman Kirk…

A Weekend with the Moreheads

Blandwood Museum, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsApril 16, 2008

The fantasy of the theater was blended with the reality of history this past weekend at Blandwood Mansion, where five intrepid and talented actors portrayed members of the Morehead’s extended…

Future-Perfect-in-Past-Tense: Reclaiming the Historic Warnersville Neighborhood

City Planning, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, Lost Greensboro, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsApril 14, 20082 Comments

Future-Perfect-in-Past-Tense grammatical terms were once the topic of discussion in the classrooms of Warnersville’s J. C. Price Elementary School, but today, the term describes a new direction planned by residents…

The Secrets of Kirkwood

Architecture, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 20, 20086 Comments

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…

Old Carolina Cadillac Dealership a Step Closer to National Register

Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsFebruary 29, 20082 Comments

Often undervalued, an East Market Street building that reminds us of the early auto era is a step closer to listing on the National Register. The Carolina Cadillac Company building,…

Who done it? Reading the Clues of an Old House

Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsFebruary 15, 20082 Comments

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…

Letting the Pictures Speak: A New Model For Preservation

Greensboro Preservation NewsBy Benjamin BriggsFebruary 14, 2008

For our Annual Meeting this week, the membership and friends of Preservation Greensboro were fortunate to have Clark Schoettle here in the Gate City to talk about historic preservation, reinvestment,…

Will The Pomona Cotton Mill Be Landfill?

Greensboro Preservation News, Lost Greensboro, Treasured Places Watch ListBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 29, 20088 Comments

The Pomona Mill located at the corner of Spring Garden at Merritt Drive, appears to be headed for destruction. The history of the mill dates back to 1897, when construction…

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