Greensboro Pictorials Highlights

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Who's responsible?: Greensboro History Museum (Repository)
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Topics: Buildings
North Carolina
Business
Subject headings: Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 19th century
Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Business enterprises--North Carolina--Greensboro
Contributing Institution: Greensboro History Museum

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: Burtner Furniture Company; Exterior view of the Burtner Furniture Company store, located at Library Place (now Commerce Place) in Greensboro. Burtner Furniture operated on South Elm Street for nearly a century.

: C.B. Wilkerson's livery stables; Exterior view of C.B. Wilkerson's livery stables, located at an unspecified address in Greensboro.

: C.F. and Y.V.R.R. depot and general office; Exterior view of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad depot, located on South Davie Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Carnegie Free Library; Exterior view of the Carnegie Public Library, located on Library Place (now John Wesley Way) and West Gaston Street (now West Friendly Avenue) in Greensboro. Two Carnegie libraries opened as part of the segregated Greensboro Public Library in 1902, this one and the Carnegie Negro Library near Bennett College. The latter is till standing, though it is no longer used as a library. Additional Carnegie facilities were located at the State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and at Guilford College.

: Carter's millinery store; Exterior view of Rosa Carter's millinery shop, located at 303 Lindsay Street in Greensboro.

: Chisolm, Stroud, Crawford, & Rees; Exterior view of the Chisolm, Stroud, Crawford, & Rees men's clothing store, located at 300 South Elm Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Progressive Greensboro: The Gate City of North Carolina"

: City Hall; Exterior view of the city hall, located on Elm Street at Gaston Street (now Friendly Avenue) in Greensboro. Image taken from "Commercial history of the State of North Carolina"

: City National Bank; Exterior view of the City National Bank, located at 119 South Elm Street in Greensboro. This was later the site of the Banner Building, which opened in 1912 and was destroyed in the 1970s. Image taken from "Progressive Greensboro: The Gate City of North Carolina"

: City graded schools for white children; Exterior view of the Lindsay Street Graded School, located at Church Street and Lindsay Street in Greensboro. This was the first permanent public graded school in North Carolina. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: City hall and municipal theatre; Exterior view of the city hall and municipal theatre, located on Elm Street at Gaston Street (now Friendly Avenue) in Greensboro.

: City market house; Exterior view of the city market house, located at North Elm Street and Gaston Street (now West Friendly Avenue) in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Co-operative Cotton Mills -- (just finished); Exterior view of the then-new Co-operative Cotton Mills, located at an unspecified address in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Cornelia Phillips Spencer building -- main dormitory Normal and Industrial College -- erected 1904; Exterior view of the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Building, main dormitory of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College, located at College Avenue near Walker Avenue in Greensboro. Image taken from "Southward the sun of progress shines"

: Corner of Elm and Market streets; View looking south on Elm Street at Market in Greensboro, showing the Benbow House hotel, located at 122 South Elm Street. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: County Court House; Exterior view of the Guilford County Courthouse, located at 102 Court Square (on the northwest corner of Elm and Market streets) in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Crossing of Elm and Market streets; View of the crossing of Elm and Market streets, the "center" of Greensboro.

: Davie Street, looking north from wholesale house of Justice Drug Company; View of Davie Street looking north from wholesale house of Justice Drug Company, located at 344 South Davie Street in Greensboro.

: Davie Street, north from D-A Sign Co.'s studio; View of Davie Street, north from D-A Sign Company's studio, located at 212-214 South Davie Street in Greensboro.

: Davie Street, north from the railroad; A view of Davie Street in Greensboro, looking north from the railroad tracks. Image taken from "Southward the sun of progress shines"

: Dixie Building; Exterior view of the Dixie Fire Insurance Building, located at 125-127 South Elm Street in Greensboro.

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