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Statewide News Roundup
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October 20, 2011 |
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"The old Y.E. Smith School building near the corner of Driver and Main streets in East Durham is vacant and in disrepair. But investors are planning to bring it back to life.
As the oldest unoccupied city of Durham school building still standing, Y.E. Smith features a prominent arched entrance, granite lintels, brick corner pilasters and segmented arched windows. The old building also featured an open-air courtyard, classrooms, auditorium and offices. It was the area's main public school until 1967, when the new elementary school was built. Later, it was used to serve children with disabilities and then as a sheltered workshop. TROSA, a local nonprofit, acquired the building in 1998 with plans to renovate it for housing, but it proved unworkable.
Preservation North Carolina holds an option to the property and, with TROSA's approval, has entered into an agreement to sell the building to Self-Help, a community development lender, credit union and real estate developer that works in traditionally underserved communities.
Project Manager Dan Levine said they plan to renovate the building and lease out the space to Maureen Joy Charter School on West Cornwallis Road."
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The Triangle Tribune (9/28/2011)
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Features
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October 20, 2011 |
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"When Ernest Hemingway departed Cuba for Spain on July 25, 1960, he thought he'd be coming back.
He was wrong. Less than a year later, on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, he leveled the barrels of his beloved W. & C. Scott & Son Monte Carlo B shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger.
On the Caribbean island he left behind were his boat, his car and his house - a stuccoed, one-story affair that had been his base of operations for more than two decades.
Now, thanks to an unprecedented partnership between Cuban and American preservationists, his house, called Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), has been restored and photographed for a new book on the island's little-publicized elegant architecture."
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Statewide News Roundup
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October 11, 2011 |
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"The Tryon Downtown Development Association held its annual meeting Monday, Sept. 26 at the newly renovated Tryon Depot. Following a short opening reception, the business portion of the meeting was called to order by outgoing TDDA President Crys Armbrust.
The president’s address followed, including a still-photography video of the “TDDA Year in Review,” found at http://youtube/4Bderlo92U0.
After the election of the 2011-2012 new board members and officers, Armbrust cited three accomplishments occurring on his watch as president in which he said he would always take great pride:
• A $3.2-million private/public investment certified by the NC Department of Commerce
• The restoration of the 1906 Tryon Depot
• The restoration of the Sunnydale property
The depot and Sunnydale building restorations garnered Andy Millard and Bob Lane TDDA Awards “in recognition and deep appreciation of service to the Tryon Downtown Development Association and the Town of Tryon, N.C.” Parallel recognitions occurred on the next day when the Town of Tryon Board of Commissioners acknowledged the same contributions in proclamations of recognition for Millard and Lane."
Tryon Daily Bulletin (10/4/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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October 11, 2011 |
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"Fifty years ago, on Oct. 2, 1961, the battleship USS North Carolina, prodded by a flotilla of tugboats, slowly made its way up the river to its new, permanent berth opposite downtown Wilmington.
More than 125,000 people turned out to watch the sight.
“It was awesome,” recalled Susan Taylor Block, who was 10 years old at the time. “Just the bigness of it was breathtaking.”
“It was huge,” said Tom Jones. “Of course, when you're a kid, I guess everything looks huge.”...
The battleship survived to become one of North Carolina's foremost tourist attractions and a fixture on the Wilmington riverfront. More than 10 million visitors have paid to board the ship in the past half-century, said Kim Robinson Sincox, director of museum services for the Battleship North Carolina Memorial.
Now a floating museum and war memorial, the battleship will mark the 50th anniversary of its arrival with a day of celebrations, re-enactments, concerts and other activities. To help mark the occasion, it will revert to its 1961 admission prices for the day: 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for children."
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Star News Online (10/1/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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October 11, 2011 |
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"Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), the non-profit organization that documents, preserves, and promotes modernist residential design from the 1950s to today, has received a 2011 Anthemion Award from Capital Area Preservation, Inc. (CAP), Wake County’s non-profit historic preservation organization.
CAP presents its Anthemion Awards annually to recognize and encourage outstanding historic preservation efforts in Wake County. Award winners have all made noticeable contributions to the preservation of Wake County's architectural landscape.
Founded by George Smart in 2007, Triangle Modernist Houses.com is the website and archive for Triangle Modernist Archives, Inc., a non-profit, 501C3, non-traditional historic preservation organization. The TMH website’s archive features hundreds of modernist houses, from the 1950s to today, as well as profiles of the architects who designed them, video and audio files of interviews and lectures by modernist architects, and a free listing of modernist houses on the market.
Today, TMH maintains the largest single archive of modernist residential design in the nation and has become a national resource for the preservation, protection, and appreciation of residential modernist architectural."
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dBusiness News (9/27/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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September 27, 2011 |
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"A closed-up, run-down Depression-era bathhouse beside a filled-in swimming pool has become a focus of historic preservation in Durham.
Its foundation is cracked, its roof leaks, its restrooms work unless they're vandalized again, and, according to one study, it would be cheaper to tear it down and build something new than to undertake restoration.
Still, as restoration proponent Bill Anderson told the City Council last week, the Duke Park Bathhouse is "one of our last remaining buildings in our most historic park."
Anderson asked the city to commit $600,000 to restoration, a job estimated at almost $1 million. Councilman Eugene Brown said he grew up in the adjoining Duke Park neighborhood and considers the bathhouse's preservation a "high priority."
However, there was little support from his colleagues, who put off considering the matter at least until next year's budget season."
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News Observer (9/24/2011)
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