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Winter 2014-15 Winter 2014-15 Number 148 This Year, Our 75Th Anniversary, Has Been Incredibly Busy for Published by Preservation North Carolina, Est winter 2014-15 winter 2014-15 Number 148 This year, our 75th Anniversary, has been incredibly busy for Published by Preservation North Carolina, Est. 1939 Preservation North Carolina (PNC). www.PreservationNC.org The Historic Preservation Regional Offices and Staff e had a wild ride during the summer as the general assembly Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. Headquarters Northeast Regional Office considered the renewal of the state’s rehabilitation tax 2014 Board of Directors 220 Fayetteville Street 117 E. King Street Suite 200 Edenton, NC 27932 Rodney Swink, Raleigh, Chairman P.O. Box 27644 252-482-7455 credits program. In its final hours, the legislature failed to Fred Belledin, Raleigh, Vice Chairman Raleigh, NC 27611-7644 Fax 919-832-1651 W and Chairman-elect 919-832-3652 e-mail: extend them. Though historic preservation received unprecedented Bettie Edwards Murchison, Fax 919-832-1651 [email protected] Wake Forest, Secretary e-mail: [email protected] local political and media support, it wasn’t enough to overcome Don Tise, Chapel Hill, Treasurer Claudia Deviney, Director Bruce Hazzard, Asheville, At-Large Myrick Howard, President objections rooted in tax reform. Some key legislative opponents have Executive Committee Member Elizabeth Marsh, Office Piedmont Regional Office Eddie Belk, Durham, Immediate Past Assistant 735 Ninth Street, expressed their willingness to work out a solution in 2015. Chairman Robert Parrott, Regional Suite 56 Director P.O. Box 3597 Diane Althouse, Charlotte Shannon Phillips, Director of Durham, NC 27702-3597 Through our Endangered Properties Program James Andrus, Enfield Resource Development 919-401-8540 Millie Barbee, West Jefferson Lauren Werner, Director of Fax 919-832-1651 (aka the Revolving Fund), we’ve sold sixteen Ramona Bartos, Raleigh Outreach Education/ e-mail: [email protected] Website Editor endangered historic properties in the last twelve Anne Rendlemen Daniel, Greensboro Cathleen Turner, Director Anne Faircloth, Clinton Dawn Williams, Office months, placed seven significant properties under Manager/Properties Ned Fowler, Boone Western Regional Office Coordinator permanent protection through easements, and James Goodnight, Raleigh 2 1/2 E. Warren Street, Mary Frances Wilson, Melanie Graham, Charlotte Suite 8 acquired five properties for future resale. We Annie Jacobs, Wilmington Development Associate PO Box 2 averaged more than two property transactions each Rebecca Love, Shelby Shelby, NC 28151-0002 Bellamy Mansion Museum of Susan MacIntosh, Winston-Salem 704-482-3531 History and Design Arts month! Autumn Rierson Michael, Davidson Fax 919-832-1651 503 Market Street Edward Norvell, Salisbury e-mail: And then, there’s the Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington, NC 28401 Gray Reed, Raleigh [email protected] public outreach, 75th Anniversary events, awards for Jennie Stultz, Gastonia 910-251-3700 James M. Tanner, Jr., Raleigh Fax 910-763-8154 Ted Alexander, Director PNC, and so much more to tell you about. Clark Twiddy, Kill Devil Hills e-mail: Hayes Wauford, Winston-Salem [email protected] This Special Edition of North Carolina Preservation is our Year-End Trish Wilson, Wilmington Gareth Evans, Director Appeal. We hope you’ll enjoy it and then use the inserted envelope or go Bob Lock, Site Manager online to make a special gift to help us finish the year in the black. We Brooks Murphrey, Administrative Assistant usually send our members a letter as the Year-End Appeal, but this year’s Ashley Relf, Operations Manager successes have been so exciting, we thought you would enjoy seeing more. Please help us! Without your generous support, this year would have been a On the cover: Crabtree Jones House, Raleigh very different story. The mission of Preservation North Carolina is to protect and promote buildings, Myrick Howard sites and landscapes important to the diverse heritage of North Carolina. President NC Preservation (Winter 2014-15, Number 148 is published quarterly by Preservation NC, PO Box 27644, Raleigh, NC 27611-7644. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Preservation November 2014 NC, PO Box 27644, Raleigh, NC 27611-7644. 2 3 Breaking Records: 2014-15 Winter Again and Yet Again The Bellamy Mansion Museum Rocks he Bellamy These activities Mansion get media attention, Museum of which in turn THistory and Design attracts even Arts in Wilmington, more visitors. The North Carolina Preservation Carolina North owned and operated by museum’s email PNC, broke a record in blasts reach 13,000 2013 with more than recipients far and 20,000 visitors, and it’s wide. Executive Bellamy Mansion Museum, already surpassed that Director Gareth Wilmington record this year with Evans sometimes two months left to go. introduces himself At a time when as “the guy who museum visitation spams you from the is down all across Bellamy Mansion.” the country, why This year we is the Bellamy completed the Mansion Museum restoration of the doing so well? It’s Bellamy Mansion Slave Quarters slave quarters, a programming wrapping up two whirlwind. Programs about pertinent decades of research and restoration for and diverse historical subjects (such the three structures and garden on the as women in the antebellum South, Bellamy Mansion site. Back in 1993, urban slavery, Civil War battles in the from all over the globe. More than 150 from Robert Bellamy in 2008 for a when the property was first conveyed Cape Fear region, and local postcards), faithful volunteers and a small dedicated permanent building maintenance fund. to PNC, the main house had been educational exhibits, jazz concerts, staff keep things humming. A generous gift in 2013 from Lucia and vacant for a half century and badly chamber music recitals, art shows, The financial support for this work Tom Hughes allowed the museum to damaged by arson. The carriage house ladies hat parties, and holiday tree is almost entirely private—from people purchase the historic house next door was gone, and the slave house was decorating are just some of the many like you. for additional income. barely hanging on. activities that take place there. We had Over the next decade, we hope Let us know if you’d be interested Now fully restored, the compound sixty-five events in the last year—not to enhance the endowment for this in helping secure the Bellamy Mansion is a major draw for southeast North counting the twenty-four rentals for important site through planned Museum for the benefit of future Carolina, attracting diverse visitors private special events. gifts, building on a generous bequest generations. 4 5 Gifts of Real Estate 2014-15 Winter Drive PNC’s Engine North Carolina Preservation Carolina North Jim and Doris Kovach, donors of the Cellar Plantation, Enfield (Halifax County) thirty-five years as a family get-away. After the death of their adult son, the years ago, PNC helped find a buyer for Kovachs generously decided to donate it another family house in Warren County. back to PNC so that it could be enjoyed This summer PNC was able to sell the by another family. Peete House, a fine Colonial Revival Bennett Perry of Henderson donated iving an unneeded and PNC Regional Director Cathleen Turner structure with Dr. Peete’s office out front, Cascine Mill to PNC in 2006 with much loved property to and the new buyers of the Peete House to enthusiastic new buyers, Michael Lilly funds for its stabilization. The mill, a PNC is a natural solution for and David Brown who moved to North remarkable mid-19th century structure, Gpreservationists. We all know of horror exceptional for our work with donated Carolina from Rock Hill (SC) with their seventy-five feet in height, represented stories where historic properties have property. family. It was a win-win-win—for the the latest in water-powered technology. been given to churches, universities and In December 2012, members of the Peetes, the buyers and PNC. In 2012, PNC started a sustained hospitals, even historical societies, only Peete family sold PNC their homeplace Near the end of 2013, Jim and Doris conversation with Michelle and Simon to be demolished and sold for land. in Warrenton at a much reduced price, Kovach of Arlington (VA) donated the Brough of Louisburg about their Historic real estate is core to PNC’s allowing each family member to take Cellar Plantation in Enfield to PNC. purchasing the property, renovating one mission, and gifts of real estate are an a charitable deduction for his or her The Kovachs purchased the substantial or both of the derelict houses on the site, important part of how PNC has thrived portion of the gift. It was the second late-Georgian house from PNC in 1979 and returning the mill to some form of through the years. The last year has been time that the Peetes worked with PNC; and, after restoration, used it for nearly operational condition. In late 2013, the 6 7 district, and the family was worried to making sure that the house was 2014-15 Winter about its future. The house and the preserved, and he donated the house neighborhood will be bolstered by the and the funds for its relocation and a new blood and investment. new foundation. Another generous donation this The move drew scores of people, summer came from a nonprofit. who were astounded that the large Historic Woodville Inc. donated house with three early chimneys could St. Frances Methodist Church and be moved in one piece. Fortunately Cemetery in Woodville to PNC, which the high-profile drama ended up sold it to Kim and Annette Ringeisen being anti-climactic. Everything went of Pittsboro who will use it as a special smoothly, and after three hours the events venue. They’ve already had their house rested comfortably amidst the first wedding! trees on its new site. It will soon look North Carolina Preservation Carolina North North Carolina, as we all know, is like it’s always been there, exactly what a very small world.
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