Pittsburgh is a legacy city, a center point of America's Industrial Revolution, and the center of steel, aluminum, glass, oil, and electric industries. The wealth and prosperity of the period…
A Halloween tradition of Ghost Stories continues this October at Blandwood Mansion! Located in downtown Greensboro, Blandwood has stood for more than 170 years and has witnessed the passage of…
The Victorians were always open for a ghostly guest or a spiritual sensation...and Blandwood is Greensboro's grandest Victorian house! You will be guided by a ghoul from room to room…
The Victorians were always open for a ghostly guest or a spiritual sensation...and Blandwood is Greensboro's grandest Victorian house! You will be guided by a ghoul from room to room…
A Halloween tradition of Ghost Stories continues this October at Blandwood Mansion! Located in downtown Greensboro, Blandwood has stood for more than 170 years and has witnessed the passage of…
The Victorian Period in Greensboro was one of growth and change, as new educational and industrial institutions brought a greater diversity of traditions and customs to the region. During this…
Throughout its 250-year history, women have had a role in commissioning, designing, and preserving Guilford County's architecture and built environment. Exemplified by the campus commissions for Greensboro College and Bennett…
Leadership Level friends of Preservation Greensboro are invited to attend our annual Holiday Party in the newly refurbished Blandwood Carriage House located in downtown Greensboro. Join us for the evening…
This meeting serves as Preservation Greensboro’s annual General Membership Meeting that will include election of board members and a presentation of the 2021 Preservation Awards. In addition to awards and…
Explore Hendrix, Chestnut, and Percy streets, containing the oldest houses in the Summit Avenue National Register Historic District/Dunleath Neighborhood. Dating to the 1880s, these earliest houses were built north of…
Can you read a street? What do materials and architectural styles tell us about the history of a neighborhood such as the Summit Avenue National Register Historic District? Are these…
Traces of nineteenth-century history linger on the edges of the Summit Avenue neighborhood (recently renamed Dunleath), but the greatest architectural legacy dates from the early twentieth-century. In 1898, industrialist siblings…