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Tag Archives: Black history

Student’s Groundbreaking Research Provides New Perspectives on Warnersville

City Planning, Greensboro History, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 4, 2023

Anna-Kristina Hoffman, an Archaeology Major and Painting Minor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, completed her 2022 internship with Preservation Greensboro by answering this basic question: How did the…

The History and Legacy of Greensboro’s Black Architects and Builders

By Benjamin BriggsOctober 31, 2022

The History and Legacy of Greensboro’s Black Architects and Builders Wednesday Evening, November 9th, 2022, 6:00pm until 8pm. Dudley Memorial Building/University Galleries, Multi-Purpose Room 202 University Circle on the campus…

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…

Early Black Families Held Influential Roles in Greensboro Part Two

Architecture, Greensboro History, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsSeptember 21, 2021

In Greensboro and Guilford County during the nineteenth century, the Mitchell and Dean families contributed themes of influence and agency as free people of color within the context of legalized…

Early Black Families Held Influential Roles in Greensboro Part One

Architecture, Greensboro History, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsSeptember 20, 2021

In Greensboro and Guilford County during the nineteenth century, the Mitchell and Dean families contributed themes of influence and agency as free people of color within the context of legalized…

East White Oak School Serves As Community Touchstone

Architecture, Greensboro History, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsAugust 16, 2020

The East White Oak School was constructed by the Cone company in 1916 to serve grades 1-5 for children of African American workers who resided in the surrounding community as…

The Secrets of Nocho Park, Clinton Hills, and Benbow Park

Architecture, City Planning, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Secrets of..., Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 19, 2020

East Greensboro is a constellation of neighborhoods, many with a spectrum of African American connections. However, the heart of East Greensboro is within a triangle of seminal institutions including North…

A&T’s Amazing Architectural Legacy

Architecture, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 14, 2019

Most in Greensboro celebrate the fact that North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T) is the largest historically black university in the nation, and most recognize it is a…

College Hill Bungalow Represents Inspiring History

Architecture, Greensboro History, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsNovember 22, 2016

The Booker-Benton House is a rare surviving structure built by an African American family at the height of the Jim Crow Era, in the midst of the historically white College…

Study to Focus on Preservation Opportunities in East High Point Neighborhood

Architecture, City Planning, High Point Preservation News, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsNovember 7, 2013

As a result of a grant made by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington DC, Preservation Greensboro has obtained a specialist in historic preservation that will carefully review…

A Beginning Or The End of High Point’s East Washington Street?

City Planning, High Point Preservation News, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsSeptember 5, 2013

The First Baptist Church and the Kilby Hotel are cornerstones of the East Washington Street National Historic District, and their loss may not only threaten the historic designation of the…

Union Cemetery Dates to Reconstruction Era

Greensboro History, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsOctober 27, 2011

Union Cemetery is Greensboro’s earliest known Black cemetery. It is east of the historic Warnersville neighborhood and was named in the 1880s for a ministerial union of St. Matthew’s Methodist…

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