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Statewide News Roundup
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November 12, 2012 |
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The old house has been sitting on the corner of Nixonton and Salem Church Road in Weeksville for as long as anyone can remember. These days only a shell of its historical past survives. But it is a shell that has revealed a very storied past that harkens back to the days when North Carolina was a wild British colony, it turns out.
The Greek Revival façade seems to be falling apart and the house barely looks like it's worth saving. Turns out, however, that it's well worth saving and Harvey Harrison is the man for the job.
The Woodley House, as it's known these days, sits tucked away behind a small grove of trees, across the road from the Weeksville Grocery. It had been in the Berry family since 1964, according to Marjorie Berry, before Harrison purchased it.
Berry says her family purchased the house from Scott and Halstead, produce dealers, at an auction. The house came with a tract of land the farming family had decided to add to their inventory of fields.
The house was habitable back then. It was used as a rental up through the 1990s.
The old house was thought to date back to the 1820s. That would make it historical enough, putting it in the much-lauded antebellum architectural period. The Greek Revival façade told that much of the story.
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(The Daily Advance, 11/12/2012)
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Statewide News Roundup
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November 05, 2012 |
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John W. Morris III has joined the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources as deputy state archaeologist and head of the state's underwater archaeology branch at Kure Beach.
Morris is a nautical archaeologist with more than 25 years of field experience. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with honors in history and a minor in anthropology. He earned a masters' degree in history from East Carolina University, graduating from the program for nautical archaeology and maritime history.
Morris' work at the cultural resources department will include expansion of the state's shipwreck data files and sharing that information with students and professional researchers. He will process permit applications for exploration of historic resources in state waters and also guide research on the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck and numerous Civil War shipwrecks.
(From The Daily Reflector, 10/29/2012)
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Features
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November 05, 2012 |
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PHOENIX - The coiled concrete-and-steel house built by Frank Lloyd Wright here, which had been under threat of demolition since its sale in June to a pair of luxury home developers, may have found its savior in an anonymous buyer who has agreed to pay the asking price of $2.379 million, all of it in cash.
The agreement, struck late on Wednesday, offers exactly what preservationists, elected officials and the Wright family have fought so diligently to accomplish: It keeps the house from being razed. It is, however, only the first step in a transaction that needs to withstand the scrutiny of a home inspection and the volatile relationship between the city and the current owners, who have vociferously opposed the city's efforts to give the house landmark status.
On Thursday, Mayor Greg Stanton pledged to stay the course, saying, "We're going to ensure the house is designated historic, as it should be."
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(The New York Times, 11/1/2012)
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October 26, 2012 |
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WINSTON-SALEM --School officials plan to demolish the former Griffith High School, a landmark in southern Winston-Salem for more than 80 years, causing some to call for the district to reconsider and preserve the historic building.
"Griffith High School is the last remaining wood-frame school structure in Forsyth County," wrote Brian Allison of Winston-Salem, in emails to Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools Superintendent Don Martin. "The building could be utilized for a myriad of other community enhancing purposes. It is a travesty to lose a historically significant structure being replaced for a parking lot."
The high school opened in 1926 as a wooden building, and other parts were added to the building in the 1950s and 1960s, said Theo Helm, a spokesman for the school system. The school was later known as Griffith Academy.
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(from the Winston-Salem Journal, 10/25/2012)
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October 25, 2012 |
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The Historic Preservation Commission is expected to discuss today whether to keep trying to stop the Pinehurst Village Council's plans to renovate the Village Green.
The commission voted in June to deny a Certificate of Appropriateness for the work. The council appealed the decision to the village's Board of Adjustment, which ruled in the council's favor Oct. 4.
The commission has 30 days from the time the board issues its order to decide whether to appeal the board's decision to Moore County Superior Court. The board is expected to issue the order Nov. 1. The issue is on the agenda for the commission's meeting today.
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(The Fayetteville Observer, 10/25/2012)
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October 24, 2012 |
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Efforts that began more than three decades ago resulted this month in national recognition for Salisbury, where a unique mix of retail, entertainment and historic preservation earned the downtown a spot as one of the best places in the country.
The American Planning Association at Tuesday's City Council meeting recognized the city and two groups for making downtown Salisbury one of 10 Great Neighborhoods for 2012 under the Great Places in America program.
Mayor Pro Tem Susan Kluttz thanked city visionaries who created Historic Salisbury Foundation and Downtown Salisbury Inc. and ushered in the National Main Street Program.
Ed Clement, Margaret Kluttz, Jim Dunn and others understood the value of historic preservation and adaptive reuse of Salisbury's old homes and buildings, Kluttz said.
"They were often met with opposition, but little did the opponents realize that historic preservation would be our economic development in the city," she said.
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(The Salisbury Post, 10/17/2012)
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