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Winter 2016–2017 Winter 2016–2017 Number 153 PNC Still Working Where It’S Needed Most ’Ve Often Described North Carolina As a State of Contradictions winter 2016–2017 winter 2016–2017 Number 153 PNC Still Working Where It’s Needed Most ’ve often described North Carolina as a state of contradictions. The Published by Preservation North Carolina, Est. 1939 land of Jesse Helms and Terry Sanford. The “most purple state” in www.PreservationNC.org Ithe nation. In this year’s election, our rural areas were solid red, and urban areas were as blue as could be. The Historic Preservation Regional Offices and Staff Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. When Preservation North Carolina (PNC) launched its revolving fund back Headquarters Eastern Regional Office 2016 Board of Directors 220 Fayetteville Street 252-482-7455 in 1975, its strategic focus was to work with rural and small-town endangered Suite 200 Fax 919-832-1651 properties. Funding came mainly from the state’s cities. Jim Gray, the fund’s first Fred Belledin, Raleigh, Chairman P.O. Box 27644 e-mail: Jennie Stultz, Gastonia, Vice Raleigh, NC 27611-7644 [email protected] executive director, occasionally joked that PNC was “a Robin Hood organization.” Chairman and Chairman-elect 919-832-3652 Maggie Gregg, Director Autumn Rierson Michael, Davidson, Fax 919-832-1651 Forty years later, that focus continues. Secretary e-mail: [email protected] At our Greensboro conference in September, Dr. Allen Parnell spoke about our Hayes Wauford, Winston-Salem, Piedmont Regional Office Treasurer Myrick Howard, President 735 Ninth Street, state’s “Disruptive Demographics.” While NC is growing by leaps and bounds, Annie Jacobs, Wilmington, At-Large Carolyn Fifer, Office Assistant Suite 56 Executive Committee Member Robert Parrott, Regional P.O. Box 3597 half of its counties are losing population. You could hear an audible gasp from the Rodney Swink, Raleigh, Immediate Director Durham, NC 27702-3597 audience when Dr. Parnell noted that if the area east of I-95 were a state, it would Past Chairman Shannon Phillips, Director of 919-401-8540 Resource Development Fax 919-832-1651 be the second poorest in the country. And that was before Hurricane Matthew Diane Althouse, Charlotte Lauren Werner, Director of e-mail: [email protected] Communications/ devastated the region—again! James Andrus, Enfield Cathleen Turner, Director Richard Angino, Winston-Salem Website Editor Our work in rural and small town North Carolina is more Dawn Williams, Office & Millie Barbee, West Jefferson Western Regional Office Properties Manager important than ever. We are bringing in new investment, new Ramona Bartos, Raleigh 2 1/2 E. Warren Street, Mary Frances Wilson, George Carr, Greensboro Suite 8 blood, new opportunities, and new social capital to places that Development Associate Anne Faircloth, Clinton PO Box 2 sorely need it. We are marketing places that matter. Ned Fowler, Boone Shelby, NC 28151-0002 Bellamy Mansion Museum of James Goodnight, Raleigh 704-482-3531 The contradictions continue. Forty years ago, who would have History and Design Arts Melanie Graham, Charlotte Fax 919-832-1651 503 Market Street thought that a brewery and upscale restaurant would be helping to Earl Ijames, Wendell e-mail: Wilmington, NC 28401 Susan MacIntosh, Winston-Salem [email protected] revitalize downtown Kinston, a town badly damaged by Hurricane Louise Porter Martin, Raleigh 910-251-3700 John Moore, Winston-Salem Fax 910-763-8154 Ted Alexander, Director Floyd? Wineries are now the biggest industry in the Yadkin Valley, Claudia Edward Norvell, Salisbury e-mail: where years ago you couldn’t have even purchased a bottle of wine. Deviney retired Marshall Phillips, Charlotte [email protected] this summer Even our weather is contradictory. This fall we’ve Gray Reed, Raleigh Gareth Evans, Director after seventeen James M. Tanner, Jr., Raleigh Bob Lock, Site Manager simultaneously had flooding in the east and forest fires in the west. Clark Twiddy, Kill Devil Hills Laural Coffey, years as director Goldie Frinks Wells, Greensboro Membership & Events PNC is like “the little engine that could.” We continue to be of PNC’s Trish Wilson, Wilmington Coordinator deeply focused on making North Carolina a better place to live by Northeast Ashley Relf, Operations Manager saving our state’s most endangered and significant properties, many Regional Office. of which are in rural areas or small towns. No one loves rural North Enjoy taking a look at what our “little engine” has done in the Carolina more On the cover: The Smith-Simmons House in Stokes County. last year. And then, please, please, please send us a contribution than Claudia. to help us move forward into 2017 for another year of profound impact. The mission of Preservation North Carolina is to protect and promote buildings, sites and landscapes important to the diverse heritage of North Carolina. NC Preservation (Winter 2016–2017, Number 153) is published quarterly by Preservation NC, PO Box 27644, Raleigh, NC 27611-7644. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Preservation NC, PO Box 27644, Raleigh, NC 27611-7644. Myrick Howard 2 President 3 Nearby, PNC Winter 2016–2017 Winter N sold another important Edgecombe County landmark, Coolmore RESERVATIO Plantation, just P A outside Tarboro. N Built in 1858-61, the house and its similarly-styled AROLI outbuildings C were designed by Baltimore architect E. G. Lind for Dr. Joseph J.W. and Martha Powell. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, Coolmore is an exceptionally fine Italianate plantation house. ORTH N In 1994, Coolmore was generously donated to PNC. After considering numerous options, PNC signed a long-term lease with Joe and Janet Spiers for its stewardship. Joe The Barracks, Tarboro (2011) is a descendant of the Powells who built it. The Spiers took superb care of the property Saving Major for two decades. In 2016, PNC sold the property to another Powell descendant for stewardship. McCutchan Jones and his wife, Anya, a native of Poland, will be returning North Carolina Landmarks to Tarboro to take care of this remarkable landmark. t’s always a tragedy when an important noted cancer researcher, having formerly With an exceedingly generous anonymous contribution, PNC will soon begin relocation historic house is damaged by a major served as the deputy director of the of Branch Grove in Halifax County to fire. And then, when it’s determined National Cancer Institute and director of a nearby parcel, where its exterior will be Ithat the fire was likely started by a the National AIDS Program. Alexandra, restored. After years of near-misses in finding refrigerator, the heartbreak deepens. a native of France, sang in operas and a new buyer, PNC looks forward to reviving this important landmark and finding a buyer The Barracks in Tarboro is one recitals. They moved their extensive to cherish the boyhood home of Alpheus of North Carolina’s most important collection of antiquities and art from their Branch, founder of Branch Banking and Trust antebellum homes. Designed by William chalet in Normandy, France, to Tarboro. Company (BB&T), now the nation’s 12th largest bank. Percival, an English-born architect, the In February 2016, the Barracks suffered sumptuous 1858 Italian Villa was built a major fire. Fortunately, thanks to the for William S. Battle, a planter and work of five different fire departments, the manufacturer. (There’s that contradiction, blaze was mainly confined to the rear one- again.) Battle was President of Rocky story wing. Mount Mills, one of the state’s earliest The Fischingers decided to donate cotton mills, as well as owner of a large the house and a substantial portion of cotton plantation. the insurance proceeds to Preservation The Barracks has been under PNC’s North Carolina for its stabilization. This protective covenants since 1986. When exceptionally generous donation will Peter and Alexandra Fischinger bought preserve the renowned house and provide the house in 1997, it was a social-capital PNC funding to continue its important With another generous anonymous gift, PNC this year stabilized and restored the exterior coup for Tarboro. Peter, a medical doctor work in places like Tarboro, where historic of the Paul Borden House in Goldsboro, which had suffered from years of neglect and a with a research doctorate, had been a preservation equals economic development. major fire. Borden belonged to one of NC’s most important manufacturing families. PNC is looking for a purchaser to complete the interior work on this neighborhood landmark near downtown Goldsboro. 4 NNORTHORTH CCAROLIAROLINNAA PPRESERVATIORESERVATIONN 5 The Taylor-Pope House Winter 2016–2017 Winter N in Magnolia (Duplin Saving Rural and County) is emblematic of the challenge that PNC often faces: finding a buyer Small Town Treasures for a prominent house in a small town (population RESERVATIO he Smith-Simmons House in revealed a six-figure lien lingering from 959) in a struggling region. P Stokes County (near Mount Airy) an unsettled estate. The closing had to be A Fortunately, Jessica Melton N struck a chord with many lovers delayed for months until a solution for the from Connecticut fell in love Tof rural historic houses. David and Diane lien could be found. with the early 20th-century house and the town. Yet AROLI Hodges of Erwin (see cover photo) rose to What started as a generous donation again, the closing took many C the top of the many potential purchasers to PNC ended up as a $5,000 expense, months, this time because of this charming house, built in the late but the house was saved and the Hodges of the challenges of getting financing for renovating ORTH 19th century and enlarged in 1908. It’s are going to be great assets for the rural N such a house. Jessica has a good thing that David and Diane are area. Our work is complicated and jumped right in, and work is patient (one of the trademark traits of solution-oriented—another reason why underway.
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