Contact: Mike Cowhig
Phone:  373-2755
Cell: 382-8353

Historic Architecture Survey Begins 

GREENSBORO – The City of Greensboro has hired Circa, Inc., a Raleigh consulting firm, to update Greensboro’s survey of historic architecture. Circa, Inc. began work this week and, over the next four to five months, will photograph architecturally significant structures and collect data about Greensboro’s historic neighborhoods and buildings. The data collected will become part of the City’s Geographic Information System, which is used by city planners in neighborhood and land use planning activities. It will eventually be made available to the public on the City’s website.

Funded by a $12,500 matching grant from the federal Historic Preservation Fund, the new survey will update a previous survey conducted in 1990. The 1990 survey resulted in the listing of seven Historic Districts and 10 individual properties on the National Register of Historic Places.  Properties such as Pomona High School on Spring Garden Street, the Country Club Apartments on North Elm Street and L. Richardson Hospital on South Benbow Road were identified during the 1990 survey and were restored using historic rehabilitation income tax credits.  Circa Inc. will recommend additional historic properties for listing in the National Register.

The survey update will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will include nearly 4,000 structures built before World War II. The next phase will focus on the period 1940 to 1965, when nearly 20,000 structures were built during a massive housing boom. Examples of residential architectural styles from post World War II neighborhoods will be documented, along with buildings that reflect industrial and commercial expansion.   

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