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The Proximity Hotel, [1] located in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the first Platinum LEED certified green hotel in the United States. [2] Opened in 2007, this 147-room luxury boutique hotel has over 5,000 square feet (460 m 2) of meeting and event space as well as a full-service restaurant. [3]
Magnolia House at 442 Gorrell Street in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Victorian-Italianate [1]-style house which was listed as Magnolia Hotel in the Green Book as a hotel for African American travelers. It is one of the four remaining Green Book sites in North Carolina. [2]
The original hotel building, which was located in downtown Greensboro, was built in 1919 on the corner of Bellemeade and North Elm Street. It was the first of Greensboro's modern hotels, and one of the largest deluxe hotels in North Carolina, having over 300 rooms. The original hotel was closed in the 1960s.
Sunset Hills Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 912 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 13 contributing structures in a predominantly middle- to upper-class residential section of Greensboro.
Ham's was started in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1935. In 1984, Charlie Erwin acquired the original property. The business was expanded into the North Carolina and Southern Virginia region, and eventually comprised more than 20 restaurants under the Ham's logo. [1] In 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy and was eventually sold at an auction.
The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with a reevaluation in 2003, and boundary adjustments in 2023. [1] The most recent changes included adding city and country government buildings completed by 1975. [4]
Adjacent to the Greensboro Cultural Center is the 4-acre Carolyn & Maurice LeBauer Park.The park contains two cafes, a children's play ground, dog park, putt-putt green, ping-pong tables, and a fountain "splash pad," which is seasonally converted into an ice-skating rink. [21]
Four Seasons Town Centre is a three-story shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina.Opened in 1974, it was the first enclosed shopping center in Greensboro. Currently it is anchored by Dillard's and JCPenney and it is the only indoor shopping mall within Greensboro's city limits; however, nearby Friendly Center, an outdoor shopping plaza, has many of the same tenants.