Since setting up his own pottery studio in Pittsboro in 1983, Mark Hewitt has become one of the state's most widely respected and enthusiastically collected craftsmen.
For thirty-five years, the late Helen Watkins lovingly nurtured her Hillsborough garden of roses and camellias at the site of her historic home, Chatwood.
Originally built in 1908, the Balsam Mountain Inn, near Waynesville, one of the last of western North Carolina's grand hotels, was restored and reopened in 1991.
Art gallery owner John Cram restored and redesigned Kenilworth Garden in Asheville, a series of twenty-three theme gardens, each suited to its topography, nestled in a wooded cove at the edge of a man-made lake.
Chapel Hill native William McCranor Henderson, a former screenwriter and the author of I KILLED HEMINGWAY and STARK RAVING ELVIS, takes a walk down memory lane upon his return to the homestead.
Artist Claude Howell of Wilmington, who in the early 1950s started the art department at Wilmington College (now UNC-Wilmington), has spent a lifetime painting his beloved seaside home.
Exemplifying the trend for North Carolina's colleges and universities to value and renovate their older buildings, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has renovated Old East, the oldest state university-owned building in the country.
Duck's Sanderling Inn, a resort built around a renovated life-saving station constructed in 1899, is renowned for fine accommodations and environmentally sound development.
This article portrays three downtown Wilmington businesses whose proprietors reside upstairs. Each building is featured, revealing functional places of business with domiciles above.
Dee and Rick Ray, owners of Charlotte-based Raycom Inc., have restored the old Duke Mansion, built by James Buchanan Duke and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Habitat for Humanity is an international nonprofit organization that builds and finances homes for low-income families. North Carolina is the fifth most productive state in Habitat construction, and Charlotte has the nation's most active affiliate.
Flat Rock was developed during the 19th-century by Charlestonians who sought relief from the summer heat. Modern development threatens to destroy the ambiance they created.
Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Memorial, used local materials and simplicity of form to establish the \"Linville Style\" as he designed homes and churches for Linville at the turn of the century.
An old canoe house on Watson Lake, built in the 1920s by a Philadelphian and in disrepair by the 1960s, has been renovated into a private weekend resort.