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19337
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Edward Dudley became the first popularly elected governor of North Carolina. The transportation magnate from Wilmington built an imposing home on 400 Front Street first to entertain his business partners and later political figures. Present owner Thomas Wright III is responsible for the restoration and maintenance of one of Wilmington's most historic and impressive homes and his efforts to maintain and revive the former governor's residence are described within this article.
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1459
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Sid Oakley, an internationally renowned potter and painter, creates his art at Cedar Creek, a ten-acre enclave of studios, kilns, and a showroom in southern Granville County.
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1337
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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.
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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.
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1463
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Nancy Goodwin turned a love for gardening into Hillsborough-based Montrose Nursery, a growing center for horticultural education and enjoyment.
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1455
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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.
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19333
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Fearrington is a modern village six miles south of Chapel Hill. Built on 1,100 acres of what was once the Fearrington Farm, the development is unique in its attention to the lands past use. When planning for Fearrington Village began in 1975, housing development was designed around the once lush pasture lands and with an agricultural feel to the buildings. The article outlines how the village was designed around the ideal of an English countryside but with classical southern influences.
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1342
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George Watts Hill's Chapel Hill home, Quail Hill, will become part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his alma mater.
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1457
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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.
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1340
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This article portrays three downtown Wilmington businesses whose proprietors reside upstairs. Each building is featured, revealing functional places of business with domiciles above.
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1576
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Architectural historian Laura Phillips has found imaginative examples of decorative painted finishes in Edgecombe County houses.
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1456
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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.
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19331
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Wilmington native Henry Bacon was responsible for designing the Lincoln Memorial and, on a smaller scale, for creating a distinct log cabin style within the state. The Linville style, named for the town of Linville, is a distinct style of mountain cabins, cottages, and churches which uses chestnut bark shingles. The article offers a brief biography of Bacon's life and how his background and life in North Carolina influenced the 'Linville design.'
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1325
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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.
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1578
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History surrounds the origin, development and maintenance of Tryon Palace and its gardens in New Bern.
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