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Built in 1925 as the Frank Thompson Gymnasium, the structure has been recently renovated to become Frank Thompson Hall, which houses among other things, the Titmus Theatre and the Kennedy-Mcllweee Studio Theatre. Lea tours and describes the new renovations.
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Lea discusses two coastal restoration projects - the Oregon Inlet Lifesaving Station and Jennette's Pier - that help to preserve the architecture, history and culture of North Carolina's coast.
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Lee describes Elizabeth City's historic Grice-Fearing house, constructed by Francis Grice in 1790. It is the city's oldest house. When Grice died in 1808, his widow married Isaiah Fearing. The home was sold out of the family in 1970 and is now a bed and breakfast inn.
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Lee describes the North Carolina Museum of Art's new West Gallery, which took ten years to plan and complete.
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METRO design editor Diane Lea discusses the Boddie family and the Rose Hill Plantation located in Nash County. The family moved to North Carolina from Virginia in 1734. The original home does not stand, but part of the one built in 1792, survived and is the back wing of the present, restored Rose Hill Plantation.
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16539
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Ligon Broadus Flynn, the architect who laid the design template for modern coastal architecture in North Carolina, is characterized as an idealist and creator of humane space with deep connections to nature.
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Carrboro, once adjoining Chapel Hill's less affluent western neighbor, has transformed into a trendy artistic and culturally diverse community, referred to by locals as the Paris of the Piedmont, Chi-carrboro, or the Seattle of the South. These clever labels dramatize that Carrboro's visual arts, performing arts and music community is gaining attention.
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Located in the center of a hundred-mile radius that encompasses the booming Research Triangle, dramatic Outer Banks and Tidewater region, the community of Merry Hill seems a mere dot on the North Carolina map. This hamlet was once the seat of the 8000-acre Scotch Hall Plantation, the largest antebellum plantation in Bertie County. Today, the privately owned extant plantation house shares it setting with another Scotch Hall, Scotch Hall Preserve. This new Scotch Hall, a 900-acre residential and golf community adds a new dimension of the area's picturesque landscape of small towns, productive farms, and great expanses of blue water.
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In 1974, H. G. Jones learned that Gilliam and Annette Wood, owners of Edenton's historic 1814-1817 Hayes Plantation House, were interested in donating the contents of Hayes' rare, intact, 19th century gentleman's library to the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. With the transfer and restoration of the library's contents underway, a replica of the original library was suggested, as well as a book about the Hayes Plantation.
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At the corner of West Martin and Harrington streets in Raleigh's revitalizing Depot Historic District, an unlikely butterfly is emerging from its decades-long cocoon. The historic 1910 two-story brick structure built for Allen Forge & Welding Company and enlarged around 1927 for the Brogden Produce Company -- and more recently home to longtime occupant Cal-Tone Paints -- has emerged from its asbestos panel sheathing for a new incarnation as the home of Raleigh's Contemporary Art Museum (CAM).
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On a sloping triangular-shaped lot at the intersection of downtown Raleigh's Peace and Wilmington streets, a building of statewide significance is rising. The new North Carolina Center for Architecture and Design, a multipurpose facility of the American Institute of Architects North Carolina Chapter (AIA NC), is an intimately scaled 12,000-square-foot structure on a half-acre lot that can accommodate parking. Ground was broken in early December 2009, with completion scheduled for October 2011 to host the organization's annual design conference.
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Tucked away behind a curving driveway concealed from the street is one of Raleigh's acknowledged early Modernist jewels: Blue Haven. The home, named for its distinctive Carolina Blue Stone, was constructed in 1959 by Raleigh architect F. Carter Williams as his personal residence and is considered by many to be his signature work.
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In the first decade of the 21st century, Durham -- the state's fourth largest city -- is redefining itself once more. Situated in North Carolina's Piedmont Crescent on the edge of the Old Belt bright leaf tobacco zone, Durham is perhaps our most diverse city. It is a city shaped by the forces of tobacco, textiles, big business, great philanthropy, advanced education, technology and medicine, and now a resurgence of all aspects of the arts.
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At the end of the road stands Midway Plantation, built in 1848 as the seat of the extended Hinton family, whose many thousands of acres once stretched westward from Smithfield to outside Raleigh. Midway Plantation now graces a site a few miles from the original location on Highway 64 after a dramatic move in 2005 that is the subject of a major new documentary film by Godfrey Cheshire.
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From 1756 until the 1950s, Yates Mill, Wake County's only surviving water-powered gristmill, filled an important social and economic function for the area.
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