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16719
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The Woman's Club of Raleigh has been an integral part of the Capital City's community and civic life since it was founded in 1904 by Elvira Evelyna Worth Moffit and a small group of friends. The Club's efforts are focused on welfare, literature, art, village improvement, and music.
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16726
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Bath is North Carolina's oldest incorporated town and its first port, chartered by an act of the Colonial General Assembly in 1705 in the picturesque country between the eastern Piedmont and the barrier islands of the Outer Banks.
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Lea discusses the life and work of landscape architect, Richard C. Bell, who was born in Manteo in 1928. He was a member of the first graduating class in 1950 of a revolutionary design school at NC State University and has been a landscape architect for fifty years. Among his 2,000 projects are the rolling hills and gardens of Raleigh's Pullen Park, NC State's famous \"Brickyard\" and Student Center sculpture plaza, Meredith College's amphitheater, and the Moore Square Transit block in Raleigh.
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16798
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Over the past sixty years Raleigh has grown far beyond its historic downtown. Lea describes the return of the city's center as the heart of the state capitol.
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16804
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Williams graduated from what was then North Carolina State College in 1935, and received an architectural degree from the University of Illinois in 1939. He started his own firm in Raleigh in 1940, and before his retirement in 1991, he had designed and overseen hundreds of projects, including the NC Archives Library in Raleigh and buildings at East Carolina University. Lea describes Blue Haven, his personal home in Raleigh. Constructed in 1959, it is considered his signature work.
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16808
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Lea discusses the 2011 Triangle Design Awards presented by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to the winning architectural firms. The awards offer an annual glimpse into the latest trends in building design in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area.
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The transformation of Raleigh from a small, compact city to a sprawling metropolis characterized by regional development, regional shopping malls and office complexes occurred during a relatively brief period in the last quarter of the 20th century. Now, in the early years of the 21st century, two Raleigh-based developers are working to internalize that pattern by creating places that reclaim a sense of intimate scale. These places would integrate work space and living space, as well as provide an opportunity for people to park their cars and stroll comfortably and safely to dozens of retail, dining, and entertainment choices.
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17050
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is reinventing themselves; with generous donations and land from the neighboring prison facility, NCMA's museum park combines art installations with spacious nature trails.
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The meadow is back at Meadowmont; the meadow in question, a long-time Chapel Hill landmark once known as the DuBose farm is newly terraced and enhanced with meandering ponds. After less than 18 months of construction, much of the infrastructure needed to support Meadowmont, the Triangle's most ambitious mixed-used communities, is in place.
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17089
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After almost 20 years of development on the rare stretch of Atlantic sand, Bald Head Island Limited is presenting its jewel: Cape Fear Station, the island's newest residential neighborhood and the culmination of the developer's thoughtful and evolving environment-oriented design strategy.
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At the end of a tree-lined avenue, the grand turn-of-the-century Carolina hotel stand majestically surrounded by well-tended gardens and neatly clipped lawns. This rambling Colonial Revival hotel is the jewel-in-the-crown of Pinehurst, the 2000 acre resort complex in the Sandhills of North Carolina that includes the premier Pinehurst Country Club and some of the most famous golf courses in the world.
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17327
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Lea describes the conversion of the historic Chancellor's Resident at North Carolina State University into the new home of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design.
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17717
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The Duke Medicine Circle in Durham, North Carolina houses the Duke Cancer Center, a state-of-the-art establishment in both architecture and medical treatment.
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Lea takes readers on a tour of a Tuscany Villa in Chapel Hill which features sweeping views of the three-and-a-half acres surrounding it, terra cotta rooflines, and the detailed authenticity which recreates the elegance of Tuscany. Dr. James Crow, who had a long and distinguished medical career, built the home and has lived in it the past six years.
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Triangle Chapter’s Design Awards recognizes the local architecture profession’s most talented designers. The 2009 awards acknowledged varied institutional and residential projects, including an addition to a historic church, a restaurant and a new installation in the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Art Park.
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