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Statewide News Roundup
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June 07, 2011 |
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"What has been called "the strangest house in the world" is in this hamlet 90 minutes northeast of Charlotte. Can't miss it: It's the gigantic and gothic Victorian mansion on Main Street. It's what's inside that achieves fantasy level - waves of over-the-top elegance by an artist-owner not restrained by money. His eccentric residence has raised eyebrows for more than a century."
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Charlotte Observer (6/6/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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June 07, 2011 |
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"Community built the historic Canetuck Rosenwald School, and community labors to preserve its treasured past . . . With a grant that funded exterior restoration of the building, now home to the senior center, organizers reached a halfway point this spring. Thompson and Rocky Point resident Claudia Stack, D.C. Virgo Middle School teacher and filmmaker, obtained the $40,000 grant from Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. The Southern Office of National Trust for Historic Preservation processed the grant. The exterior work was completed in March."
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Wilmington Star News Online (6/5/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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June 02, 2011 |
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"As the Scrap Exchange and other artist organizations eye a new home near Golden Belt, some city officials and downtown advocates say the city needs to maintain ties with owners of the now-condemned Liberty Warehouse. The city condemned the former tobacco auction house owned by Greenfire Development on May 16 and restricted about 35 tenants and others' access to it. The action followed a partial roof collapse during a thunderstorm, but the city shut down the entire 200,000 square-foot building saying a leaking and rotting roof that made it unsafe."
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Durham News (6/1/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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June 02, 2011 |
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"Friends of state-supported museums and state historic sites are breathing a sigh of relief as many cuts and closings that had been proposed in the Senate budget last week have disappeared.
The Museum of the Cape Fear in Fayetteville and the Museum of the Albemarle, both slated to be closed under a proposed Senate budget a week ago, would be spared the budget ax.
The budget, which gained tentative approval in the Senate on Wednesday, proposes to phase out state funding of Tryon Palace in New Bern."
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ENC Today (6/1/2011)
For some of the historic site cuts that had been proposed . . . view story . . .from Eyewitness News 9 (5/25/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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June 01, 2011 |
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"On May 20, 1861, North Carolina seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of America. Over the weekend of the 21st, history came alive as the NC Museum of History and the State Capitol in Raleigh commemorated the 150th anniversary of North Carolina’s secession vote."
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Raleigh Telegram (5/31/2011)
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Statewide News Roundup
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June 01, 2011 |
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"You may think this garden tea party decision is the most technologically advanced that historic preservationists have to make. In reality, they are employing a wide array of technology tools to fulfill their missions. . . . a potpourri of recent historic preservation developments in the fields of digitization, social media, mobile devices and high-tech services."
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Durham Herald-Sun (5/27/2011)
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