2023 NC Preservation Honor Awards Ceremony and Reception – Winner Discount

5:30pm-8:30pm

Come celebrate another year of preservation success as we highlight projects, organizations, and individuals from around the state at the 2023 Preservation NC Honor Awards Ceremony. Afterward, mingle with preservation friends for a social reception at Hayti Heritage Center.

This discount is for award winners only.

10:00am-11:30am

Join the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough for a behind the scenes look at preservation projects and history as you walk through the Hillsborough Historic District of more than 500 contributing buildings ranging from the late-18th century into the early-20th century. Please wear comfortable shoes and be able to walk about a mile on sometimes uneven sidewalks.

10:30am-12:00pm

Learn about Durham history through this guided tour of Old Maplewood Cemetery, perhaps Durham’s loveliest urban open space. Preservation Durham tour guides will take small groups around the cemetery pausing here and there to tell stories of triumph and tragedy, joy and sorrow, wealth and inequity, lives long and short. Learn about funerary traditions and grave art and architecture.

This tour is limited to 30 people maximum.

10:30am-12:00pm

Preservation Durham tour guides will lead this exciting tour featuring many of the sites in downtown Durham that were important during the 1950s and 60s Civil Rights movement: Durham County Courthouse, the Arts Center (originally Durham High School and later City Hall), the Kress and Woolworth buildings (sites of sit-in protests), and the “Confronting Change” exhibit at the Carolina Theatre. Learn about the contributions of ordinary Durham residents to the struggle for equality, as well as local leaders like Floyd McKissick and national figures like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who brought America’s attention to the campaign for civil rights in the Bull City.

This tour is limited to 25 people maximum.

1:30pm-4:00pm

Attend the Preservation Year in Review from 1:30pm-3:00pm followed by Durham: The Last 40 Years from 3:00pm-4:00pm.

5:30pm-8:30pm

10:00am-11:15am

Durham’s downtown has undergone massive change over the past 15 years. Not only has that change resulted in hundreds of new housing units in downtown’s core, it has also prompted change to nearby neighborhoods. North of downtown, the Geer Street/Rigsbee corridor has been transformed from an auto-centric mélange of dealerships and repair shops to a vibrant hub of entertainment. Some historic buildings have undergone radical change, others have been preserved, still others demolished. What factors influenced those building owners, and their neighbors? Has this area improved? Does it contribute to Durham’s character, or detract from it? Two veterans of Durham’s redevelopment walk you through a changing neighborhood. Wear walking shoes, a sun hat, and bring water. Complete walk is less than 2 miles.

This tour is limited to 20 people maximum.

10:00am-11:30am

This tour will connect participants to the home and landscape in which Pauli Murray was raised in Durham’s historically Black West End neighborhood. Guests will learn about the life and work of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray; the decades-long effort to preserve their childhood home; and get a behind-the-scenes tour of the home, which is not yet open to the public. During the tour, guests will have the opportunity to explore the stellar preservation work that has occurred in the home and learn about the future of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. Registration includes a gift from the Pauli Murray Center.

This tour is limited to 20 people maximum

10:00am-4:30pm

Attend any one of these 3 concurrent/field sessions from 10:00am-11:30am:
Preserving the Black Masonic History of NC, Resiliency: Preservation for a Changing Climate, or American Tobacco Campus: 20 Years After the Purchase (field session).

Followed by the Marion S. Covington Keynote: Older and Historic Buildings: The Solution to the Affordable Housing Crisis, Not the Cause with Donovan Rypkema from 1:00pm-2:14pm.

Ending with any one of these 3 concurrent sessions from 3:00pm-4:30pm:
Cracks, Mold & Bugs: Solving the Root Cause with Building Science, Disability Access for Historic House Museums (and Non-Museums!), or Mayberry Modernism.

3:00pm-4:30pm

This tour will connect participants to the home and landscape in which Pauli Murray was raised in Durham’s historically Black West End neighborhood. Guests will learn about the life and work of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray; the decades-long effort to preserve their childhood home; and get a behind-the-scenes tour of the home, which is not yet open to the public. During the tour, guests will have the opportunity to explore the stellar preservation work that has occurred in the home, and learn about the future of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. Registration includes a gift from the Pauli Murray Center.

This tour is limited to 20 people maximum.

5:30pm-7:30pm

Check-in at Honeysuckle Restaurant to grab a bite and a beer (or glass of wine) then walk across the street to tour several homes (including Myrick’s childhood home) in the Lakewood Park National Register Historic District. Lakewood is a vibrant, early 20th century suburb of modest cottages, bungalows and Craftsman-style homes. Come peek inside the “real” and residential side of historic Durham. You’ll learn more about the neighborhood, its history, and why Lakewood Park was called “The Coney Island of the South.” End your tour back at Honeysuckle to socialize over s’mores.

9:30am-12:30pm

Attend either one of these 2 concurrent sessions from 9:30am-11:00am:
There’s More Going on in Moore County or Changing Tides and Shifting Perspectives: Documenting the coastal and Civil Rights History of Northeast North Carolina

Followed by the Closing Plenary from 11:15am-12:30pm:
Buying Time for Heritage: Showcasing 45 Years of Preservation with Myrick Howard

1:30pm-4:30pm

Led by Michael Verville and held in historic Geer Cemetery, this workshop will include a lecture on best practices, proper materials, identification of typical stones, and common damages and repairs. Michael will demonstrate a variety of techniques to include cleaning, straightening, and leveling of small monuments. He will also discuss common causes and appropriate repairs that he sees in cemeteries throughout piedmont and eastern North Carolina. This is a hands-on workshop, so participants will also clean monuments under the supervision of Michael and his team and, time permitting, reset a couple of small unbroken monuments. Workshop will last approximately 3-4 hours. We will provide tools and materials, bottled water, and bug spray. Workshop participants need to bring their own gloves and wear comfortable, close toed shoes. 

This workshop is limited to 15 people maximum.

2:00pm-3:30pm

This tour will connect participants to the home and landscape in which Pauli Murray was raised in Durham’s historically Black West End neighborhood. Guests will learn about the life and work of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray; the decades-long effort to preserve their childhood home; and get a behind-the-scenes tour of the home, which is not yet open to the public. During the tour, guests will have the opportunity to explore the stellar preservation work that has occurred in the home, and learn about the future of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. Registration includes a gift from the Pauli Murray Center.

This tour is limited to 20 people maximum.

2:00pm-3:00pm

Learn how Downtown Durham has transformed itself from an industrial center to the City of Medicine. Preservation Durham tour guides will describe the history of many of the landmark buildings that make up the Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977. Featured on the guided walking tour are the 1915 First National Bank, the 1921 Mechanics and Farmers Bank Building, and Preservation Durham’s one-time home, the Snow Building, built in 1933. Built by the successful entrepreneurs of early 20th-century Durham, many buildings were designed by nationally known architects like Milburn and Heister, Bertrand E. Taylor, Edward F. Sibbert, and Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, as well as by local companies Rose and Rose, George Watts Carr, Hill C. Linthicum, and Atwood and Weeks. There are fine examples of many architectural styles popular in the 20th century, including Art Deco, Italianate, Neo-Classical, and post-World War II Modern. Many of downtown’s older buildings have recently changed their functions, turning from tobacco factories and textile mills into hip urban lofts, stores, and offices.

This tour is limited to 25 people maximum.

2:00pm-3:00pm

Join Preservation Durham tour guides for a walk through Beechwood Cemetery to explore the road from slavery to opportunity, Black Durham’s community relations and familial ties, and the rich legacy of leadership and fortitude. After two decades of advocacy by Durham’s African-American leadership, a city cemetery for its Black citizens was established in the late 1920s. Trailblazers in business and education, champions of civil rights, leaders in politics, the arts, and the church are memorialized here. These are the people who, in the words of W. E. B. DuBois, “upbuilt” Durham, and we are excited for our tour guides to share their stories.

This tour is limited to 30 people maximum.

2:00pm-3:00pm

*Please note that you may only register for this tour if you are attending the conference*

The William C. Coker house and garden is the centerpiece of Chapel Hill’s Franklin-Rosemary Historic District. Built in 1908 by the Father of Botany in the Southeastern U.S., this estate remains a fascinating fusion of distinctive architecture and a botanically rich landscape. Designed applying the early 20th century principles of Frank Lloyd Wright for residential architecture, Coker created a magnificent house that connects beautifully to the enduring landscape, including magnificent 100+ year old trees planted by Coker. The property is protected by Preservation North Carolina.

This tour is limited to 20 people maximum.

2:00pm-3:30pm

Join the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough for a behind the scenes look at preservation projects and history as you walk through the National Register Historic District of more than 500 contributing buildings ranging from the late-18th century into the early-20th century. Please wear comfortable shoes and be able to walk about a mile on sometimes uneven sidewalks.

This tour is limited to 20 people maximum.

8:30-9:30

Enjoy coffee and conversation with Preservation NC’s Professional Associates Network (PAN) members at the American Underground Rooftop. Must be a current PAN member to register and attend (free). Join or renew your PAN membership today.

Sponsored by Foss and Company.

Please select Local Pickup if you plan to receive your copy at Myrick’s retirement celebration on September 17 at Ayr Mount.

New revised and expanded edition, published by UNC Press

What does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical tools and strategies to be more effective preservationists. Myrick Howard makes clear that large sums of money are not necessarily needed to save endangered historic properties, but knowledge and passion are essential.

This book shows how preservation-minded neighbors and organizations can succeed with only modest resources and rather than clash with developers, can become developers themselves for community benefit. Howard draws on case studies from forty-five years of successful work leading Preservation North Carolina, with lessons that are applicable coast to coast.

This richly illustrated, fully revised and redesigned second edition includes detailed projects to renovate vacant houses in working-class neighborhoods; reflections on addressing racial equity through preservation; an expanded section on using preservation easements; and summaries of revolving fund programs around the country. Buying Time for Heritage is an indispensable resource for those looking to save the special places of our collective past.

Order your copy today! You’ll receive an email when books are in stock and ready for local pickup (early October).

New revised and expanded edition, published by UNC Press

Tax, shipping and handling are included.

Order your copy today! Books will ship early October.

Author and distinguished architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith, Ph.D., and noted photographer Jackson Smith tell the rich histories of more than 75 great houses through beautiful new photography, historic photographs, personal narratives, and oral histories. Through diligent research of historical records and interviews with residents and local historians, they’ve uncovered fascinating stories about the families whose fortunes shaped neighborhoods like Buena Vista, West Highlands, and Reynolda Park.

In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the “town of a hundred millionaires.” Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industries converged to make Winston-Salem the largest and richest city in all of North Carolina, and major architects flocked to the area to design for its newly wealthy clientele. Ambitious commercial buildings and gracious suburban estates abounded, hosting generations of families that shaped the economic future of the country.

Great Houses and Their Stories explores Winston-Salem’s finest residential architecture from that era–its spacious mansions, palatial gardens, and even working farms–and delves deeply into the stories of the people who lived and worked in those historic buildings. This is a book for the preservationists, history buffs, and architecture lovers of the world and for the Winston-Salem residents who have always wondered about the abundance of green-roofed mansions still surviving in their city, even as similar pockets of early 20th century architecture throughout the country have been lost to time.

By publishing this book, Preservation North Carolina hopes to advance the preservation of Winston-Salem’s rich architectural legacy, which is highly threatened by demolition and overdevelopment.

Tax, shipping and handling are included.

Thank you for choosing to advertise you property through Preservation NC’s social media platforms. This is an add-on item to a current or new website ad. Your ad will run once on both of Preservation NC’s highly trafficked Instagram and Facebook pages and also will be featured in our story. The social media post will include the same 6 photos (or up to 10 photos if more were purchased) and copy from the website ad you’ve submitted. If the copy needs to be shortened to fit in the social media post, we will email you for your approval.

Note: social media ads will not be posted until we’ve received your approval on the live website ad.

For a limited time, Preservation NC is offering a special rate the powerful book, The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. Rothstein presented a keynote session at the Preservation North Carolina’s 2020 Virtual Conference.

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, “The Color of Law” incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Books are $16 each which includes tax, shipping and handling.

The DVD shares the history of the Loray Mill, the largest textile mill in the South under one roof, from its inception in 1900, through the infamous strike of 1929, the glory days of Firestone, abandonment and rebirth as the monument to perseverance that it is today. It includes interviews of community members who invested their time and vision over the last 25 years towards the rebirth of the Loray Mill.

The price of $20.50 includes shipping and handling.

Purchase as many additional photos as you’d like for your property ad, for $10/photo. Use this option if you are adding photos to an existing ad, or are adding photos to a property that Preservation NC holds covenants on.

This fee is required to make changes to a property ad on PreservationNC.org (after one free round of edits). Please contact Annie Jernigan at ajernigan@presnc.org to send your changes.

For a limited time, Preservation NC is offering a special rate on its award-winning 50th Anniversary publication, North Carolina Architecture by Catherine Bishir. This gorgeous coffee table book tells the history of the state through its buildings and features timeless images by noted architectural photographer Tim Buchman.

A special rate of $48 (includes tax) is being offered.

To take advantage of this option, you must be able to pick up the book at our Raleigh headquarters location. Please coordinate pickup with our staff by emailing Chrissy Pressley at cpressley@presnc.org.

Published in the fall of 2014, this book covers a 100-year span in the Raleigh neighborhood of Cameron Park. Written by accomplished historian Ruth Little, with photographs by David Strevel, this charming book contains a richly illustrated narrative about Cameron Park and its residents through its first century. The purchase price of $15 includes tax.

Thank you for choosing to advertise through Preservation NC’s website. Your ad will run for 12 months from the date it is approved or until the property sells (whichever comes first). Your copy can be as brief or extensive as you like – there is no word limit, and all ads include 6 photos (as jpeg files, 600h x 800w pixels preferred).

Thank you for choosing to advertise through Preservation NC’s website. Your ad will run for 6 months from the date it is approved or until the property sells (whichever comes first). Your copy can be as brief or extensive as you like – there is no word limit, and all ads include 6 photos (as jpeg files, 600h x 800w pixels preferred).

Thank you for choosing to advertise through Preservation NC’s website. Your ad will run for 3 months from the date it is approved or until the property sells (whichever comes first). Your copy can be as brief or extensive as you like – there is no word limit, and all ads include 6 photos (as jpeg files, 600h x 800w pixels preferred).

Thank you for advertising in North Carolina Preservation. A full page ad (approximately 4.5″ x 7.5″) includes up to 3 images and 175 words (unless submitting a camera-ready ad which is determined by user layout). Julianne Patterson (jpatterson@presnc.org) will follow-up with advertisers with information about the ad and publication date.

Thank you for advertising in North Carolina Preservation. A half-page ad (approximately 4.5″ x 3.5″) includes one image and 75 words (unless submitting a camera-ready ad which is determined by user layout). Julianne Patterson (jpatterson@presnc.org) will follow-up with advertisers with information about the ad and publication date.

Thank you for advertising in North Carolina Preservation. A quarter-page ad (approximately 2.25″ x 3.5″) includes one image and 35 words. Julianne Patterson (jpatterson@presnc.org) will follow-up with advertisers with information about the ad and publication date.