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Weather Conditions Cause Delay
on Chancellor’s Residence Move

GREENSBORO-Recent foul weather is causing a delay in moving the Chancellor’s Residence to its new location at the intersection of Spring Garden and Kenilworth streets. The move was scheduled for Saturday, March 8, over the first weekend of Spring Break.

No new date was available, and a new schedule is being prepared.

Considerable preparation has been done on the project. Trees in the median of Spring Garden Street were removed over the Valentines Day weekend, Feb. 15-16, and were scheduled to be replaced March 22-23. When the move does occur, the project will require closing portions of Spring Garden Street, while traffic is minimal. Trees have been removed at the existing site and at the new site, located at Spring Garden and Kenilworth streets. A dirt "road bed" has been prepared as the path that the house must travel up the small hill to Spring Garden Street. Chimneys have been boarded up for stability, stone facing and roof slate have been removed, and the foundation is being readied for supports to be positioned underneath.

UNCG and Preservation North Carolina signed a lease agreement in late August. The project was delayed, however, while UNCG officials waited to receive notice of a payment and performance bond to cover PNC’s $1.4 million share of the cost. The matter was cleared up at the Board of Trustees’ November meeting, when the building’s name was approved, and the lease was extended until March 31 for the move.

When the renovation is completed this fall, according to the schedule, the house will be named for the late Emily Harris Preyer and Jane Harris Armfield, two sisters who were UNCG alumnae and civic leaders in Greensboro. UNCG has worked with PNC over the past two years to save and renovate the house. Built in 1923, it was designed by noted architect Harry Barton and is considered to be a good example of his work.

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