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As part of October's A250 series on NC's vernacular architecture, we're highlighting PNC Protected Properties in North Carolina's Upper Piedmont. Historically known as “back country,” the Upper Piedmont represents a region more closely tied to the Mid-Atlantic than to the Chesapeake and Tidewater. During the second half of the eighteenth century, thousands of settlers moved south along the Great Western Wagon Road from Pennsylvania, forming a patchwork of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, British Quaker, and German communities. They brought Mid-Atlantic traditions in architecture, foodways, crafts, and religion that differed from those of eastern North Carolina. Unlike the east, where rivers connected plantations to seaports and larger markets, the Upper Piedmont’s poor roads and limited markets favored small farms and home industries over large plantations. Building traditions included log construction, frequent use of stone, and fewer English-based decorative elements. Many Upper Piedmont properties protected by PNC like the ones shown here reflect the lives of small and middling farmers, merchants, and professionals who looked north to Philadelphia rather than east to North Carolina’s port towns. Learn more about them on our site!

💫PNC Honor Awards Spotlight (which is also a PNC Protected Property 💪)💫 Get to know this year's Stedman Incentive Grant receipt: Arts of the Pamlico, which owns and operates the historic Turnage Theatre in downtown Washington, NC. This rare architectural and cultural landmark, houses two distinct performance venues in a historic building. The 1930 movie palace downstairs has been renovated and activated as an arts and cultural hub for a number of years. Arts of the Pamlico has been working to renovate the upstairs Vaudeville Playhouse, which dates to 1913. Its original sloped hardwood floors, stage, balcony, piano pit, and many other historic features make guests feel like they’ve stepped back in time. The Stedman Incentive Grant will support the renovation of the Vaudeville Playhouse Balcony. The Stedman Incentive Grant is awarded to recognize and assist nonprofit organizations in their efforts to preserve the state’s architectural heritage. Originating in 1976, the $15,000 award is funded each year by the Marion Stedman Covington Foundation of Greensboro in memory of Mrs. Covington’s father. The grant encourages and facilitates rescuing endangered historic and architecturally significant properties in North Carolina. A big congrats to Arts of the Pamlico and the local arts community. We look forward to presenting this grant at our annual conference in High Point in just a few weeks! 📸 Capital City Camer Club

For our October 250 Across NC Series, we explore our state's vernacular architecture. Vernacular architecture is the architecture style informed by a building’s native land and culture. For North Carolina, that looks like tobacco barns, textile mills, and mid-century suburbs. These buildings and places provide insights into our state’s cultural, racial, and economic landscape. Eastern North Carolina’s earliest architecture was most influenced by Virginia settlers like those of the Chesapeake and Tidewater region. These settlers participated in the slave economy by cultivating plantations that sold naval stores and cash crops through seaports to larger markets in major colonial cities and the Caribbean. Architectural traditions reflected early English-inspired house forms and styles such as Georgian and Federal styles and relied on timber frame traditions coupled with use of locally sourced brick. Swipe to see some examples all of which are Preservation North Carolina Protected Properties.

New Easement Protected Property! Get to know our latest PNC Protected Property: The Deep River Friends Meeting House in High Point. Home to a Quaker congregation founded in 1753, the current Front Gabled Plan brick meetinghouse was built in 1875 and modeled on the design of the Eutaw Street Meeting House in Baltimore. Subtle Italianate details include molded window and door hoods and raking eaves. The cemetery north of the meetinghouse contains graves dating to the mid-eighteenth century, though most are simple or unmarked. Later burials include elaborate markers for non-Quakers from Jamestown and the surrounding area. Today, it’s still used as a gathering place for worship and conviviality in the local Quaker community. As of this summer, the meeting house, along with the grounds, is protected by easements managed by Preservation North Carolina. 🙏

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