I recently came across this postcard, mailed from King, North Carolina, to a woman in Walnut Cove. Unfortunately, there was no identification for the building on the back of the postcard. I made a...
If you drive Highway 158 (S. Stratford Road) between Hanes Mall Boulevard and Clemmons, you might remember this building. It is located between Faw Road and Old Sides Mill Road. It is also near...
There’s a lot of earth-moving going on in the block bordered by Broad Street, First Street, Green Street, and Second Street. The buildings that were within this area were demolished in the last few...
If you have driven downtown lately, you might have noticed demolition work going on in the 500 block of West Fourth Street, between Spruce Street and Poplar Street. Part of the GMAC Building (the...
Fred N. Day became a jeweler in 1885 in Oxford, North Carolina. When he was searching for a store site in the town of Winston, he selected a prime location on North...
You might not have been in town when Interstate 40 was under construction in the mid-1950s, or maybe you were too young to take notice of the changes that were taking place. ...
If you’ve driven along North Cherry Street recently, you’ve seen the construction on the southeast corner of Cherry and Third Streets. The building that lately housed the Piedmont Opera was demolished and cleared away, and...
At the corner of S. Church and Bank Streets, slightly below the Moravian Archives and down the hill from Cedarhyrst, resides a structure that was built in 1893. Dr. N. S. Siewers built the home and...
The Forsyth County Central Library is new – inside and out. The following photos show how the library looked then (mostly when it opened in 1953), and how it looks now (when it is...
One look at this photo, and you can imagine the delicious aromas that are in the building and are probably wafting around the building. Do you recognize the people or the bakery? One clue:...
