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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. Among the winners this year were Northwestern Housing Enterprises for restoration of the Elk Park School, built in Avery County between 1935 and 1938; the Pitt County Historical Society for restoration of the 1893 Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church; and Elmer Lam, a member of the North Carolina Transportation Museum board, for his work in helping to preserve the history of the North Carolina railroad system.
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Tax incentives for historic rehabilitation can promote central-city economic development around legacy sites that would otherwise go neglected under inexorable and institutionalized suburbanization. North Carolina has had some success with it historic rehabilitation tax credit but can still improve the program.
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The Robert E. Stipe Award is the state's highest award given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their job. F. Mitchell Wild, a restoration specialist in the NC Preservation Office's Restoration Branch, received the award for 2003. Mitchell has worked on numerous rehabilitation/restoration projects, including the Chowan County Courthouse and the Governor's Mansion. He “exemplifies the consummate preservation professional with his in-depth technical knowledge, his friendly and tactful demeanor, and his unflagging commitment to preservation.â€
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. The 2003 winners of Awards of Merit include the Cameo Art House (Fayetteville); Hope Plantation (Bertie County); and the Oliver Nestus Freeman Round House Museum (Wilson).
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5909
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historic preservation. The 2002 winners include Saint Anne Catholic Church in Scotland Neck, Sidney Halma of Catawba County, and Merlyn Macon of Franklin County.
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The L. Vincent Lowe, Jr. Business Award is the highest preservation award given to a state business for promoting protection of architectural resources in North Carolina. Murray Gould and Gould & Associates received the award for 2002 for successfully rehabilitating and adapting historical buildings for new uses.
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The Robert E. Stipe Professional Award is given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their jobs. Dr. M. Ruth Little of Raleigh, one of the state's premier architectural historians for three decades, is this year's award winner.
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31133
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Arthur and Zee Campbell opened The Cottages at Spring House Farm on Haynes Road north of Lake Lure in Rutherford County in July 2000. The Campbells purchased the property to preserve the natural heritage of the farm and the history of the 1826 Albertus Ledbetter house. The home is a rare and intact example of transitional Federal/Greek Revival architecture of post-beam construction.
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. The 2001 winners include the Beaufort Historical Association; the Brittain Building Committee in Summerfield, Guilford County; and the Washington Town Community Association in Forsyth County.
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The Robert E. Stipe Professional Award is given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their jobs. John C. Larson, architectural historian and Vice-President of Restoration for Old Salem since 1991, received the award for 2001.
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The L. Vincent Lowe, Jr., Business Award is the highest preservation award given to a state business for promoting protection of architectural resources in North Carolina. Durham architect G. Edwin Belk received the award for 2001 for \"successfully adapting historical buildings and industrial complexes for new uses.\" Among Belk's creations is Durham's Bright Leaf Square.
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15911
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Julius Rosenwald, turn of the century president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, promoted education amongst underprivileged African American students throughout the rural South. From 1910-1932, his efforts led to establishing \"more than 5,300 schools from Maryland to Texas.\" North Carolina's Historic Preservation Office coordinated with the North Carolina Rosenwald Schools Community Project to locate and preserve those institutions within the state. Eight hundred plus schools were built in North Carolina with fourteen nominated to National Register and twenty-two more identified and awaiting nomination.
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Author, historian, researcher, and advocate, Michael T. Southern received the 2000 Robert E. Stipe Professional Award. The award is given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their jobs. Southern has worked at the North Carolina Historic Preservation Office for twenty-five years.
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5076
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Gertrude S. Carraway was a leader in the work to restore Tryon Palace. The Awards of Merit, named for her, recognize organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historic preservation. The 1999 Award of Merit winners include Roger Snyder, Tanner's Run, Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, and Virginia Costlow.
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When the Erwin Cotton Mill #3 in the Davie County town of Cooleemee closed in 1969, the town’s future seemed bleak. To revive the Cooleemee cotton mill community and preserve their rich textile heritage, citizens opened a historical museum and are developing curriculum to teach students about life in the mill village. Plans are also underway to build a park at the Bullhole on the South Yadkin River below the mill.
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