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Featured Properties
August 26, 2010

Sometimes we just want land, lots of land, beneath the starry skies above.

With these properties available for restoration from Preservation NC you can have from three to three hundred historic acres to call your own!

So go ahead, be expansive; learn more about each of these great places by clicking below.

Swamplawn

The Jones-Everett House, known as Swamplawn for its close proximity to the river swamps, it is one of the finest residences built along the Roanoke River valley. This Greek Revival wonder sits on 5.7 acres.

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Oak City
$ 89,900

Worthington House

The unusual Gothic Revival farmhouse sits on more than 5 acres, which include a pecan orchard and five historic outbuildings.

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Grifton
$ 150,000
 

Badgett-Gatewood House

This fine historic home on 3 acres in Caswell County was initially constructed in 1810 and reconfigured in 1855, when interior woodwork by the renowned craftsman Thomas Day was installed throughout.

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Pelham
$ 70,000 

Haywood House

The impressive Neoclassical Revival farmhouse is in a picturesque rural setting on 10 acres and features an elegant circular driveway with beautifully landscaped grounds near the Uwharrie National Forest.

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Mount Gilead
$ 400,000

Elmwood

Really want to get away from it all? Up to 300 acres of the original plantation property are available with Elmwood, a fine Georgian house in the northeast Piedmont.

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Oxford Township

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Orange County surplus historic properties remain hard sell
Statewide News Roundup
August 25, 2010

"Orange County has been trying to sell more than $1.6 million in surplus property since May, but only two of five properties have received bids — one of which is below the minimum property value set by the county.

A complex sale process and additional restrictions on historic buildings have made it an especially long process, county officials said."

Daily Tar Heel (8/23/2010)

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/08/orange_county_still_failing_to_sell_ve_properties

 
Committee seeking a home for Matthews history
Statewide News Roundup
August 04, 2010

Paula Lester and the other 10 members on the Matthews Historical Preservation Advisory Committee are doing their best to ensure that doesn't happen.  The 8-month-old, mayoral-appointed committee made a pitch to Matthews commissioners Monday evening requesting the conversion of the town-owned Bradford Clinic building, next to Stumptown Park, into a museum and interpretive center.

The Charlotte Observer (08/01/10)

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Free House to Move in Golden Belt
Protecting North Carolina Neighborhoods
August 04, 2010
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Durham's Golden Belt National Register Historic District is one of the Bull City's actively unfolding stories of preservation success. Interested in being part of that story? There's a free house for the moving in the historic district.

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Offshore light tower may become B&B
Statewide News Roundup
August 03, 2010

A Mint Hill man hopes to turn an abandoned tower standing 60 feet above the white-capped waves of the Atlantic into one of North Carolina's most distinctive vacation getaways.  The tower's 5,000 square feet of living space includes seven bedrooms, a kitchen and a recreation room. Guests would come by boat or helicopter. They could expect fabulous views of sunrises, sunsets, sea turtles and migrating whales.

The News and Observer (07/29/10)

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Pride, neglect show on Greensboro's Julian Street
Statewide News Roundup
August 03, 2010

One block of Julian Street, stretching east from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, tells the story of Ole Asheboro, Greensboro’s oldest suburban neighborhood.  Decay. Rebirth. A stack of unfinished city plans. And hope that three decades of redevelopment and setbacks might bring something better to Ole Asheboro soon.

News-record.com (08/01/10)

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