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February 14, 2011 |
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"On this date in 1960, four African-American college students changed history by walking into the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and taking seats in the all-white section. Sit-ins started happening throughout the South almost immediately, and by the summer of 1960, 33 Southern cities had integrated restaurants. A year later, that number had risen to 126.
In 1993, a group of local leaders in Greensboro got together and formed a non-profit called Sit-In Movement Inc. to try to preserve the Woolworth’s, which dates to 1929, and turn it into a museum. But the building was in a neglected part of downtown Greensboro and local officials didn’t think the restoration plan was feasible.
Then in 2004, Save America’s Treasures stepped in..."
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PreservationNation (2/1/2011)
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February 14, 2011 |
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"When Anne Lyles answered the phone, she thought the caller was asking her to help present the 2010 Clement Cup, the highest honor bestowed by Historic Salisbury Foundation.
“No, Anne,” Sarah Kellogg, president of the foundation, told Lyles. “You are the recipient of our Clement Cup this year.”
Lyles said she was shocked.
“What I have done here, what we have done, has not been for any award,” she said. “It was simply to clean up our neighborhood.”
Lyles and her family were honored last week for their 20-year commitment to historic preservation. Together, Lyles, Preston Sale, Karl Sale and Ken Weaver have rehabilitated nine historic properties in the Brooklyn-South Square neighborhood."
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Salisbury Post (2/5/2011)
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February 08, 2011 |
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"Four years ago, developer Bob Chapman said the area where Foster and Geer streets cross near the Durham Athletic Park was 'an area that has really lain fallow.'
Since then, Chapman and others have sown some seeds, investing in properties near Durham's Central Park area, and reenvisioning 'NoCo' as Durham's 'DIY neighborhood.'"
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The Durham News (2/6/2011)
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February 02, 2011 |
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A recent large gift to Durham Rescue Mission "accelerates a possible conflict that's been brewing in recent months over the expansion plans for the shelter, which have intersected with a neighborhood-led effort to upgrade the Golden Belt national historic district to a local historic district, something that's gained the requisite percentage of signatures but the opposition of Mills and the Rescue Mission.
Durham's Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously last week to support the creation of the district, which would carry with it some aesthetic impact on new and renovated structures and could delay demolition of existing properties, though it could not block such from happening."
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Bull City Rising (1/19/2011)
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January 28, 2011 |
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"The Queen City is full of brick buildings, historic signs and even neighborhood burger joints that have much to tell about our past, if only we could unlock their secrets. Donald Devet, a Dilworth video producer and filmmaker, has done just that . . . "
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Charlotte Observer (1/24/2011)
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January 27, 2011 |
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"Having lived in Raleigh for about ten years now, I feel sheepish to admit that my first visit to Chavis Park occurred about a week ago. Originally conceived as part of the Works Progress Administration, the Park opened in 1937 during segregation for Raleigh’s African American citizens. Named after John Chavis, a prominent black preacher and teacher alive in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Park provided a destination spot for black families from all over the state."
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Goodnight, Raleigh (1/24/2011)
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