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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: 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).

: Building and office of South Greensboro Land and Investment Co.; Exterior view of the South Greensboro Land and Investment Companyy office, located at 110 South Elm Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Greensboro Gas and Electric Light Works; Exterior view of the Greensboro Gas and Electric Light Works, located at 118-120 North Forbis Street (now North Church) in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Richardson and Ferris drug store; Interior view of the Richardson and Fariss drug store, located at 121 South Elm Street in Greensboro. This store was originally owned by the uncle of William Sydney Porter (known as "O.Henry"), who was employed there in his youth. The store was also the site of the invention of Vick's VapoRub by subsequent owner Lunsford Richardson. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: H.L. Scott & Co., leaf tobacco; Exterior view of the H.L. Scott tobacco company, located at 122 North Elm Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Benbow House and Elm Street, looking south; Exterior view of the Benbow House hotel, located at 122 South Elm Street in Greensboro. The hotel opened in 1871 and burned down in 1899. It was rebuilt as the Guilford Hotel on the same site after the fire. In approximately 1930, the Guilford Hotel was replaced by the F.W. Woolworth store where the first "sit-ins" of the civil rights movement occurred in 1960. That building is now home to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: 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).

: North Carolina Steel and Iron Company; Exterior view of the North Carolina Steel and Iron Company, located at 126 South Elm Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: J.L. King & Co., S.J. Pegram & Co.; Exterior view of the J.L. King and S.J. Pegram tobacco companies, located at 209 (Pegram) and 221 (King) Buchanan Street (now Smothers Place) in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: J.H. Harris, manufacturer of harness; Exterior view of the J.H. Harris harness factory, located at 217 South Elm Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: H.W. Cobb & Co., tobacco prize factory; Exterior view of the H.W. Cobb tobacco factory, located at 226-228 Belle Meade Avenue (now Bellemeade Street) in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: McAdoo House and Elm Street -- looking north; Exterior view of the McAdoo House hotel, located at 307 South Elm Street in Greensboro. The hotel was built in the late 1800s, enlarged in 1902, and destroyed by fire in 1915. A planned new hotel on the site was later constructed as an office tower, now known as the Guilford Building, in 1927. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Odell Hardware store; Exterior view of the Odell Hardware Company store, located at 321-325 South Elm Street in Greensboro. The company was established in 1872 and remained in business for well over a century. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: King's Daughters Hospital; Exterior view of King's Daughter's Hospital, located at 526 North Greene Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Greensboro Female College; A view of the campus of Greensboro Female College (now Greensboro College), located at 813-825 West Market Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: Bennett College for colored students; Exterior view of Bennett College, located at 936 East Washington Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Southward the sun of progress shines"

: 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).

: First National Bank building; Exterior view of the First National bank building, located at 235 South Elm Street in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892). This building later became the Greensboro National Bank.

: Greensboro Knitting Mills; Exterior view of the Greensboro Knitting Mills, located at an unspecified address in Greensboro. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).

: First Presbyterian Church; Exterior view of First Presbyterian Church, located at Church Street (now Summit Avenue), between Davie Street and Lindsay Street in Greensboro. The building was later used as a civic center, and the enlarged structure currently houses the Greensboro History Museum. Image taken from "Album of Greensboro N.C." (1892).