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Tag Archives: architecture

Greensboro’s Poplar Hall Gains Landmark Designation

Architecture, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, NewsBy Benjamin BriggsDecember 21, 2022

The economic prosperity brought on by Greensboro’s insurance, banking, tobacco, and textile ventures in the early 20th century resulted in a remarkable architectural patrimony that is of statewide importance for…

Irving Park Houses Promoted By Influential Architect in 1915

Architecture, Greensboro HistoryBy Benjamin BriggsOctober 7, 2022

Long before television and social media reigned supreme as venues for the exchange of ideas, printed “shelter” and lifestyle magazines were the arbiters of fashionable trends among architects and influencers.…

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…

Lindley Park House Recalls Reynolda, Badin, and Pinehurst

Architecture, Greensboro HistoryBy Benjamin BriggsAugust 22, 2022

In 1918, J. Van Lindley announced plans for the development of his property in west Greensboro, previously leased by an amusement park. He gifted 44 acres along the North Buffalo…

WE BUILT THIS: Profiles of Black Architects and Builders in North Carolina

By Benjamin BriggsJuly 1, 2022

Preservation North Carolina’s groundbreaking exhibit entitled WE BUILT THIS will come to Greensboro this fall! It will be displayed in the University Galleries located on the campus of NC A&T…

Thomas Day Trip to Milton and Caswell County

By Benjamin BriggsJune 27, 2022

This event is postponed and will be rescheduled to a later time. Departure 8:30 am with Return to Greensboro by 4:30 pm The ticket price includes transportation, lunch, gratuity, and…

Thirteenth Annual Tour of Historic Homes & Gardens: Westerwood

By Benjamin BriggsJune 15, 2022

Join Us in Celebrating National Preservation Month! Preservation Greensboro’s Thirteenth Annual Tour of Historic Homes & Gardens will showcase the vintage homes of the Westerwood neighborhood during May, National Historic…

Walking Wednesday Tour of Lindley Park

By Benjamin BriggsJune 9, 2022

Quaker J. Van Lindley was renowned as an intrepid businessman. A Union veteran, he first established his reputation in the nursery business before diversifying into terra cotta pipe manufacturing and…

Historic Summit Avenue Neighborhood

By Benjamin BriggsApril 25, 2022

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…

The Oldest Streets of Dunleath

By Benjamin BriggsApril 25, 2022

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…

Reading The Street – Park Avenue

By Benjamin BriggsApril 25, 2022

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…

Guilford Women in Architecture

By Benjamin BriggsOctober 28, 2021

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…

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