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Category Archives: Lost Greensboro

Delphina Street: Greensboro’s Most Historic Secret

Architecture, City Planning, Greensboro History, Lost Greensboro, Secrets of..., Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 18, 2023

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…

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…

Greensboro’s Grandest Estate Has New Owners

Architecture, Art in Architecture, Greensboro Preservation News, High Point Preservation News, Lost Greensboro, News, Treasured Places Watch ListBy Benjamin BriggsNovember 16, 2018

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,…

Nineteenth Century Philadelphia Architect had Greensboro Following

Greensboro History, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 29, 2018

Although Greensboro was a small southern village in the mid-nineteenth century, it enjoyed strong associations with northern cities through its architecture. Alongside the work of Alexander Jackson Davis, Greensboro features…

Gold House

Development Fund, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 30, 2015

Preservation Greensboro Development Fund Gold House, 211 South Edgeworth Street This property was demolished This three-bay, two-story, Colonial Revival-style residence was likely constructed around 1925. The side-gabled, 2,656 square foot…

A Chapter of Greensboro History No Longer a Mystery

Architecture, Greensboro History, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 1, 20112 Comments

The Cedars was clearly an important estate in Greensboro. References to the property could be found on nineteenth century maps of the Gate City, as well as excerpts from select…

Grove Street Home Falls Victim to Storm

Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsApril 15, 2011

Constructed around 1918, the simple frame hipped-roof cottage at 1316 Grove Street in the Glenwood neighborhood was the home of Dillie Ann Howerton. The Howerton home was built well outside…

The Year Ahead in Preservation

Greensboro Preservation News, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 18, 2010

With losses of historic properties in the Fisher Park neighborhood such the the Holleman House by First Presbyterian Church and threatened destruction of the Commencement House, the Cascade Saloon and…

..and Another One’s Down,

Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsJune 1, 2009

The year 2009 is turning out to be a notable year – in demolitions for downtown Greensboro. A few months ago, a two-story Queen Anne-style house was destroyed on Blandwood…

Fisher Park’s New Empty Lot

Greensboro Preservation News, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsApril 9, 20091 Comment

The bulldozer emblazoned with the demolition contractor D. H. Griffin and parked behind the house at 210 West Smith Street (image, below) says it all. Another one bites the dust…

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…

Lost Greensboro: The Benbow House Hotel

Greensboro History, Lost GreensboroBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 27, 20084 Comments

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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