Greensboro Daily Photo

Houses of the Rainbow- Lemon Yellow

2010-03-10T05:30:00-05:00

This lemon yellow house on East Hendrix St. is about the yellowest house we've found in Greensboro. Many homes are a soft buttery yellow, but lemondrop is yellow with attitude. The house, located in Fisher Park near Church Street, is characteristic of the bungalow style homes in the neighborhood. Extending deep into the lot, the house is larger than it appears at street level. Hopefully, the people who live here are as sunny on the inside as their house is on the outside! Its colonial revival neighbor, one street over, is the top most-viewed house in our archives. See it here. In recent years, Fisher Park has added a nice touch to houses in their neighborhood. Above the street sign is an additional sign that says "Fisher Park."

Finally, for the ABC Wednesday crowd, as serendipity would have it, "H" is for HOUSE!

Houses of the Rainbow- Red

2010-03-09T05:30:00-05:00

Red brick houses are common in the south; however, wooden houses painted cherry tomato red are harder to come by. Here we see a fine example of a red wooden house at the corner of Simpson and Victoria Streets in Historic Fisher Park (established 1902). The façade above is on Simpson Street. On Victoria Street, to the right, is a lower-level apartment, likely a converted garage. In Greensboro, older neighborhoods usually have houses with attractively painted exteriors to complement the architecture. Unlike the wedding-mint palate of the beach resorts, Greensboro's painted beauties are often bold, unpredictable colors. As we will learn later in the week, sometimes the color comes with controversy.

In honor of Ruby Tuesday, we're featuring this red house. See another red home in GSO here. Please stop back to see more of our showcase of homes. Feel free to nominate candidates in our comment bar!

Sternberger School

2010-03-08T05:30:00-05:00

One could learn much about the history of Greensboro just by studying the people our schools were named after. Sternberger School was named for Bertha Strauss Sternberger, the mother of Blanche (Mrs. Edward) Benjamin. Mrs. Sternberger was a prominent Greensboro citizen in the early 1900's and was the first woman on the city's school board. Her husband, Emanuel Sternberger, was one of the organizers and president of Revolution Cotton Mills in Greensboro. Together, they maintained a fabulous home in the neighborhood of Summit and Bessermer Avenues.

Daughter Blanche Sternberger Benjamin donated the nine-acre site for Sternberger School and it was constructed in 1946, making it the first school to be built in Greensboro after World War II. While the School has expanded from eight to twenty two classrooms over its sixty four year history, much of the character of the school remains the same-- from the deco style lettering above the entrance doors to the commitment to remaining a neighborhood school. The Benjamins were great philanthropists in Greensboro and lived down the road from Sternberger School on Northline Drive. See their home here. Today, we share this photo with Alieni's Monochrome aficianados.

Proximity United Methodist Church

2010-03-07T00:30:00-05:00

For over a century in Greensboro, working in the nearby mill was a way of life. Between the mill and the mill-homes were churches, grocery stores, shops, bars, and ball fields. Neighbors worked together, socialized, married, and stayed together as a tight knit community. Here we see Proximity United Methodist Church at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street. Proximity UMC would have been such a church filled with mill families. Here we see this building, still majestic with it's corner orientation, columns, and grand staircase.

As far as we can tell, the Proximity UMC does not have a website so we weren't able to find out much of the history. We do know that, at present, it houses an Hispanic Ministry. Also, we saw a wooden sign advertising a pinto bean meal event. Finally, just down the street from the church, you can see renovation taking place at the old Cone Mills Property. If you attend this church or know more about it, please share your information.

Where is Spring?

2010-03-06T00:02:49-05:00

The S.H. Kress & Company building was constructed in downtown Greensboro in 1930 and was a department store for 40 years. The chain's founder Samuel Kress took pride in his buildings and tried to make them architectural gifts to the communities in which they were built. Our Kress building is no exception. The art deco architecture sparkles today. While the department store is long gone, the building houses a night club on one side and an event center on the other. Information about the architecture can be found here and information about the event center, known as Kress Terrace, here.

Today's post does not feature the building but the brilliant art display in the front window. After the wintry days we've had lately, we just fell in love with the BURST of color and with the message, Where is Spring? Here is a display in the same window that we shared last year. Thank you Kress Terrace for these arranging these wonderful works of community art. Finally, we're sharing this photo with the great group of photographers at Weekend Reflection.

Moon over Sapporo

2010-03-05T05:30:00-05:00

As the work week comes to a close, we share this moon over Sapporo Restaurant photo taken on Battleground Avenue. The roofline of the Japanese restaurant adds an allure to the Greensboro skyline, almost as if we are in another country. Amazing how beautiful a simple shopping complex can be at twilight!

This is our first moon shot on Greensboro Daily Photo and we are sharing it with Skywatch Friday (see photos from around the world). To see our previous contributions, go here.

Across Market Street

2010-03-04T05:30:00-05:00

Here are a few houses directly across West Market Street from UNCG's School of Music. The brick wall frames the houses and hides the busy street. We don't know what the owners think of their front-door view being a GIGANTIC music building; however, they don't have far to walk to hear great music. This particular section of Market Street has maintained its charm and these houses are a good example of our town's character.

Grand Girls

2010-03-03T05:30:00-05:00

These grand girls of music reside inside the music building at UNCG. The sculpture spans 3 stories from the base, to a globe to the girl on the bell of the horn. We didn't see a description of the artwork or an artist's plaque. If you know about it, please share. It looks as if the woman is playing to a little copy of herself. Perhaps this represents the reflective process of thinking about your playing, how you sound, look, and what you think of your playing. Other than voices in the head, music in the ears, what better way than to see yourself lifting your your arms, pursing your lips, blowing air through the mouthpiece and making music!!!

If we had one wish it would be for someone to clean the cobwebs off of this work of art-- oh, and remove the nickel from the bell of the instrument. Nature brought us the cobwebs but student humor brought us the nickel for your effort!

In the ABC Wednesday meme world, this week's letter is "G" and "G" is for Girls!!!!!