On June 8, more than 300 folks came to downtown Raleigh to support Preservation NC and our Endangered Properties Program at the annual Taste of Downtown Raleigh. Thanks to all the sponsor, supporters, and attendees for making this a terrific event.

Get your own taste of the Taste of Downtown Raleigh with pictures below!

Forty years. That's how long it took to get a really unfortunate line item out of NCDOT's budget and, finally, off the radar for dozens of interest groups engaged in the drama of the proposed Hillsborough Bypass.

Gareth Evans has taken the helm at Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Decorative Arts. Gareth has a tough act to follow in former director Beverly Ayscue, who headed to western NC last month to direct fundraising for Penland School of the Arts.

Introduction of legislation that provides tax incentives for renovation of mills, tobacco warehouses and other vacant industrial buildings helped earn State Rep. Deborah Ross the 2009 Ruth Coltrane Cannon Award for outstanding statewide achievement on behalf of historic preservation.

So many great ideas were in the air at Preservation NC's 2009 Annual Conference! We wanted to preserve a few of them for posterity. Check out some of the PNC staff picks and suggest your own.