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6028
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. The 1987 award winners include Carteret County for work in preserving the 1907 courthouse and the Dillard High School Building in Goldsboro, an important African American landmark, which was preserved through a grass-roots effort.
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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. David C. Fischetti, P.E., of Cary, received the 1988 award. As a structural consultant, he has worked on numerous buildings, including schools, churches, and bridges. He is an expert in heavy timber, structural steel, and reinforced concrete design. Fischetti also donates his own time to historic projects, including saving Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
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The North Carolina Business Award, established in 1983, recognizes businesses that have shown vision and creativity in promoting the protection of the state's architectural resources. Brian South, of Durham, received the award for 1988. South, an urban rehabilitation specialist, emphasizes the adaptive reuse of older residential property as office space. He has renovated older properties in Charlotte, Chapel Hill, and Durham.
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6031
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. The 1988 award winners include Millie M. Barbee (Morganton); Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill); Bob F. Hill (Murfreesboro); New Hanover County; and West End Neighborhood Association (Winston-Salem).
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North Carolina Preservation
(NoCar Oversize E 151 N6x), Vol. Issue 75, Spring/Summer 1989,
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6041
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Catherine W. Bishir received the 1986 Robert E. Stipe Professional Award. The award is given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their jobs. Bishir, historian, scholar, writer, and administrator, has \"had a central role in the recognition and preservation of historic properties in North Carolina.\"
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Todd Dickinson, a restoration contractor, received the 1987 Robert E. Stipe Professional Award. The award is given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their jobs. Dickinson's projects range from a log cabin, to a service station, to one of the state's finest Federal houses. His most significant work is the restoration of Ayr Mount, an important 19th century Hillsborough home.
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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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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. Barbara Wishy, the director of the Endangered Properties Program for Preservation North Carolina since 1991, received the award for 2004. Over the years Wishy has restored more than a dozen historic homes, sold hundreds of endangered historic homes to people for restoration, and helped make it possible for hundreds more to be saved.
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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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7797
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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 2005 winners were the town of Woodville for preservation of the 1847 St. Francis Methodist Church and Hank and Diane Parfitt for their rehabilitation of Fayetteville's 19th century Rat Building.
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Preservation North Carolina presented its 2005 preservation awards to the following recipients: Lucy Penegar (Ruth Coltrane Cannon Award); Angelo Franceschina (Robert E. Stipe Professional Award); Capitol Broadcasting Co. (L. Vincent Lowe, Jr. Business Award); The Friends of Woodlawn, Inc. (Stedman Incentive Grant); and Larry Horne and Ron Phillips (Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Preservation award).
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A preservation easement is a legal agreement between a property owner and a preservation organization in which the property owner agrees to preserve the historic features of the property. The preservation organization is granted the right to enforce the covenants of the easement and to monitor the property. Pearson discusses how an easement works; what properties are eligible for easements; and tax advantages of an easement.
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How can a community's past, such as historic streets or architectural styles, be preserved in light of an expanding population that requires new buildings and roads? Voorhees discusses several approaches which a city might take to promote historic preservation, including a contemporary use of historic buildings, historic area zoning, tax exemptions for proper maintenance of historic structures, and developing a master plan for historic areas.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 7 Issue 1, Oct 1963,
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8864
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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 2006 winners are Fayetteville and the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for acquiring the condemned 1890 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Depot and rehabilitating it into a transportation museum and Brooks Graham's restoration of her mother's antebellum farmhouse, the Farrish-Lambeth House in Sanford.
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