This Old House calls it one of the Best Places for an old house — you can call it home.
Goldsboro is the place to find the right size restoration for you. It's
also the place to find a bargain and a growing community of
preservation enthusiasts who are helping transform the city's historic
downtown.
Downtown Goldsboro's award-winning revitalization effort is part of
a 10-year city plan. Several historic properties are being
lovingly restored, some well on their way to being finished. With potential incentives including down-payment assistance, grants for small-business owners,
façade improvement grants and historic preservation tax credits, the area is primed for revitalization success.
Goldsboro is on its way to being more dynamic and connected. Historic Union
Station will become a hub on the rail line connecting Raleigh
to the coast.
There are many properties, residential and commercial, still
waiting to be restored -- from big to small, lavish to simple,
Victorian to bungalow. Take a look and find your place in Downtown
Goldsboro today.
Meredith Students Dress Up Goldsboro Houses
July 13, 2010
Some real-life fieldwork was on the syllabus this spring for students in Prof. Lina Sibert's Interior Design studio course at Meredith College. Their assignment? Imagine how some of the large Victorian Houses in Downtown Goldsboro might be transformed for new owners.
Many of the houses Preservation NC has available for restoration in Goldsboro have been poorly maintained, divided up into apartments, or otherwise chopped up. The challenge for the students was to re-envision these houses as single-family homes, keeping historic fabric and character intact.
The students measured and photographed properties then worked in groups to prepare design boards with reworked plans, interior furnishing layouts, finish suggestions and perspective drawings of key rooms.
In May, the students returned to Goldsboro to present their ideas to Downtown Revitalization team members and city officials.
To those of you interested in the Goldsboro Revitalization Effort, we now have an easy way for you to visit us!
We've gotten so many phone calls from folks from all over the country who are interested in Goldsboro. And there have been many people who haven't had the time to visit Goldsboro yet. Take a look at our new video tours, and you can visit our community without leaving your community!
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