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Historic Summit Avenue Neighborhood (Dunleath) Evening Walking Tours

Swann 811 Cypress Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Traces of nineteenth-century history linger on the edges of the Summit Avenue neighborhood, but the greatest architectural legacy dates from the early twentieth-century. In 1898, industrialist siblings Ceasar and Moses Cone constructed a “magnificent boulevard” to ease transportation between their mills and the city center. Named “Summit Avenue” for its destination to the crossroads community…

2017 Museum Day Live!

Blandwood Museum 447 West Washington Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Ticket Required for this FREE event Museum Day Live! is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket…for free! To receive your free Museum Day Live! Ticket for two people only, please fill out the form linked on this…

Walking Wednesdays Tour of City Center North

Cascade Saloon 408-410 South Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

The Gate City grew from a county seat and college town to the second largest city in the state during the twentieth century, and our downtown has some of the best examples of architecture of the period to show for it! Unusual highlights of the tour include early skyscrapers, Mid-Century Modern landmarks, and a Brutalist…

Walking Wednesdays Tour of Westerwood

Double Oaks 204 North Mendenhall Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Beginning with the magnificent neoclassical Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast at 204 North Mendenhall Street, this tour will weave the history of Westerwood from the late nineteenth century to the present. Built on a hill just a west of Greensboro’s village center, the area was first developed in the 1890s as the home of B. H.…

Walking Wednesdays Tour of Sunset Hills

First Christian Church 1900 W Market St, Greensboro, NC, United States

In 1922, developer A. K. Moore acquired a 212-acre tract of land with a unique location in Greensboro. The land was located in the path of the western extension of Market Street – the city’s primary east-west thoroughfare that provided direct access to the center of the city. In contrast to the man-made east-west axis…

Walking Wednesdays Tour of Lindley Park

Lindley Park Gates 2700 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Quaker J. Van Lindley was renowned as an intrepid businessman. First establishing his reputation in the nursery business, he evolving into terra cotta pipe manufacturing and cotton-milling before taking a position as the president of Security Life and Annuity Co. Lindley donated 60 acres north of Spring Garden Street for use as a lake and…

Walking Tour of West Market Terrace (postponed)

West Market Terrrace 400 Mimosa Drive, Greensboro, NC, United States

Postponed. Announced in 1914, West Market Terrace was developed by Greensboro realtor E. Colwell Jr. Encouraged by sales in the Fisher Park neighborhood, this new subdivision included 200 building lots with amenities such as broad concrete sidewalks, and “utility lanes” behind properties to preserve streetside views. Sixty lots were sold in 14 days, but development…

Walking Tour of North Carolina A&T State University Campus

A&T Campus 266 University Circle, Greensboro, NC, United States

NEW TOUR! North Carolina A&T State University is the largest historically black college or university in the United States. Founded by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1891, it is the state’s second college established under the provisions of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts, and the state’s first for people of color. It is a leader…

Walking Tour of UNCG Campus

Vacc Bell Tower 1100 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro was established in 1891, and the city of Greensboro was selected in a competitive bidding process with other cities including Durham, Graham, Thomasville and Marion. The city won the bid after its citizens approved $30,000 in bonds for its first buildings and R.S. Pullen and R.T. Gray gave…

Walking Tour of Grimsley High School Campus

Grimsley High School 801 Josephine Boyd Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

NEW TOUR! When it opened in 1929, on Westover Terrace, the Greensboro Senior High School was heralded as the city's $1,000,000 high school. Built at the culmination of a wave of school construction across the city that represented community commitment to education, the new high school was the most expensive asset in the city's school…

Ninth Annual Tour of Historic Homes & Gardens: Lindley Park

NC, United States

Preservation Greensboro’s Ninth Annual Tour of Historic Homes & Gardens will feature vintage homes in the Lindley Park neighborhood during National Historic Preservation Month of May. Vintage homes in the Lindley Park neighborhood will open their doors to ticket holders on the weekend of May 18-19, 2019. The tour will highlight early twentieth century architecture…

Walking Tour of the Bennett College Campus

Bennett College 900 East Washington Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

NEW TOUR! Since its establishment as a primary and secondary school in 1873, Bennett College has been one of Greensboro's most significant black institutions. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was one of the few schools in the city that provided education beyond the primary grades for black children. Following a major…