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Preserving a Model Farmhouse
Features
January 19, 2012

"The white frame farmhouse has lost its context, like so many farms across the rural landscape. The land around it, once dotted with barns and surrounded by green fields cut into neat furrows, is now parsed into commercial lots. The only crop in evidence is a satellite dish farm behind it. Across the road is an abandoned industrial building, and heavy trucks rumble past on their way to a recycling center.

The house itself, though a little grander in scale, looks like many farmhouses you see dotting the North Carolina landscape — and that’s part of the point.

This is the one that came first, the one that some architectural historians believe inspired scores of other triple-A (or triple-gable) farmhouses across the state. It’s what remains of the Model Farm, built in 1867 by the Quakers to demonstrate modern architecture and modern farming to a South left in ruins after the Civil War.

In private hands since 1891, the National Register Historic Site was donated to Preservation Greensboro on Dec. 27 with covenants and restrictions that ensure it will be preserved and never destroyed."

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News & Record (1/15/2012)

 
UNCG Slowly Cleans Burned Houses
Statewide News Roundup
January 19, 2012

"Before the leaves changed and the temperature dropped, before most people began thinking about their Halloween costumes and before midterms, the Greensboro Fire Department began burning down houses owned by UNCG to make way for the school’s expansion into the Glenwood neighborhood.

The controlled burns, which were used as training for the department and saved UNCG demolition costs, started in late September, and UNCG initially planned to begin fencing off the area in mid-December.

For over three months, the rubble from burned down properties clustered on a few blocks just south of Lee Street on Union, Silver, Gregory and Highland has remained. Six houses have been burned in total, with some turning into unofficial dumpsites for trash and yard waste, insulation blowing across the street and a few wooden staircases remaining in place."

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Yes! Weekly (1/11/2012)

 
A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon
Features
January 10, 2012

"California's catalog of historic artifacts includes two pairs of boots, an American flag, empty food bags, a pair of tongs and more than a hundred other items left behind at a place called Tranquillity Base.

The history registry for New Mexico lists the same items.

That might be surprising, since Tranquillity Base is not in New Mexico or California but a quarter of a million miles away, in the spot where Neil A. Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon in 1969.

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From The New York Times, 1/10/12

 

 
Durham's Morris Building
Features
January 04, 2012

"The clock is ticking on the timepiece atop 102 Morris St.

Architect Scott Harmon said developers have closed on the historic corner building in downtown's Five Points, which Harmon's Center Studio Architecture and its partners bought from the city.

The clock, added to the building in the 1980s, "is not long for this world," Harmon said recently. "I expect it to be gone in a week."

A Dumpster outside is the only clue to the renovation that awaits. When completed in about six months, the plan is to carve the two buildings on the property into four ground-level storefronts and three condo units on the second floor."

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News & Observer (12/29/2012)

 
The Future of Downtown Wilmington
Statewide News Roundup
January 04, 2012

"The StarNews spent much of 2011 taking a closer look at downtown Wilmington, the problems it faces, its future and some of the main players leading downtown toward that future.

The good news is there were plenty of interesting people, places and ideas to write about.

It's easy to forget that not that many years ago downtown had pretty much hit rock bottom. With the opening of Independence mall in the 1970s, downtown lost two of its last large department stores – Belk and J.C. Penney.

A few stores stayed in business along with a smattering of bars – some of the topless variety – and adult bookstores.

City and county government, Cape Fear Tech (as it was named then) and the courthouse helped keep downtown going, but that was about it.

All of that began to change in the late 1970s. The preservation and restoration of hundreds of nearby historic homes (which actually had begun earlier in the decade) began to take off, Thalian Hall began to re-blossom as a performance arts space and downtown became anchored by Chandler's Wharf to the south and the Cotton Exchange to the north.

Slowly but surely, the two ends became connected by a riverwalk."

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Star News (1/1/2012)

 
Wilmington Restrictions for Historic Homes
Statewide News Roundup
January 04, 2012

"Q: Who decides what can or can't be done to homes with historical plaques?

A: "The reference to the historic plaque is vague because properties with a plaque may not necessarily be located within the city of Wilmington or within a locally designated historic district," said Ron Satterfield, Wilmington planning manager.

Historic plaques are issued by the Historic Wilmington Foundation. Without knowing the specific location of the property and the nature of the historic plaque, it's difficult to give a specific answer, Satterfield said.

He said that generally, if a house is located in a local historic district in the city of Wilmington, the Historic Preservation Commission reviews changes to the exterior of structures.

If a house is a locally designated landmark, the HPC reviews changes to the exterior of structures and certain designated interior features."

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Star News (1/2/2012)

 
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