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Former Chancellor’s House Completes 900-Foot Journey
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GREENSBORO – The former chancellor’s house has arrived at its new home.
Beginning June 7, the 420-ton mansion rolled over the curb and 900 feet west on Spring Garden Street. It was towed off the road at the intersection with Kenilworth Street on June 10.
“This is a great day for all of us,” Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan said on the first day of the move.
Hundreds of onlookers visited the campus to watch the two-story, brick mansion slowly squeeze down the street. It rested atop a dozen dollies, each equipped with air brakes and eight tires.
The move was preceded by years of negotiations and preparations by preservationists and university officials. Preservation North Carolina has leased the house from UNCG for the $1.925 million move and renovation. UNCG is contributing as much as $500,000.
During the coming weeks, the house will be lowered onto a new foundation. New wiring, an elevator and new heating and cooling systems will be installed, along with other updates.
The building will be returned to the university after the renovation, and it could reopen as soon as next spring. It will be renamed the Jane Harris Armfield and Emily Harris Preyer Admissions and Visitors Center. The two sisters and alumnae were longtime Greensboro civic leaders.
The Georgian Revival mansion, built in the early 1920s, was designed by renowned architect Harry Barton and has been home to every chancellor but one. Chancellors used it to entertain such celebrities as Eleanor Roosevelt, William F. Buckley, Eudora Welty and Robert Frost.
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