"In the late 1950s, an architecture professor and his 23 students began building a house together in Greensboro, N.C. When Edward Loewenstein and students at the Woman's College Department of Housing and Design (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) completed the three-story house in 1958, McCall's magazine pronounced it 'a real honey of a home.'

Today, however, the so-called Commencement House is on the chopping block. Its owner, local developer John Stratton III, plans to tear down the three-story house for condominiums. At a meeting tonight, the city council will vote on re-zoning the house's 2.7-acre lot for multifamily use. Last month the local zoning commission voted 4-3 to allow the 24-unit condo project, but city council approval is required before Stratton's project can move forward. (Stratton Development did not return phone calls from Preservation. . .)"

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Preservationnation.org (11/17/09)

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