Preservation NC has helped preserve more than 30 properties that school boards, towns, and even the state had declared as surplus. Once again lively places in their communities, these buildings represent more than $50 million in private rehabilitation investment.
2. Often, the Best Use of a
Historic Building
is for its Original Use…
Top left: Caswell County Courthouse,
Yanceyville;
Top right: Dudley High School, Greensboro,
Bottom: Goldsboro City Hall
3. Building #13,
Oteen Center,
VA Hospital,
Asheville
But Sometimes That’s Not Possible,
and a New Use Must Be Found
or the Building Will Be Lost
5. In 1979,
the North Carolina General Assembly
passed a bill that allows
local governments to sell
surplus historic properties to
nonprofit preservation organizations at
a negotiated price, rather than going
through a protracted bidding process.
6. Since then,
at least 30 surplus historic public properties
have been purchased and resold by PNC
under this legislation –
resulting in more than
$50 million in historic rehabilitation!
7. N.C.G.S. 160A-266: Provided, however, a city may dispose of
real property of any value and personal property valued at thirty
thousand dollars ($30,000) or more for any one item or group of similar
items by private negotiation and sale where
(i) said real or personal property is significant for its architectural,
archaeological, artistic, cultural or historical associations, or significant
for its relationship to other property significant for architectural,
archaeological, artistic, cultural or historical associations, or significant
for its natural, scenic or open condition; and
(ii) said real or personal property is to be sold to a nonprofit corporation
or trust whose purposes include the preservation or conservation of real
or personal properties of architectural, archaeological, artistic, cultural,
historical, natural or scenic significance; and
(iii) where a preservation agreement or conservation agreement as
defined in G.S. 121-35 is placed in the deed conveying said property
from the city to the nonprofit corporation or trust. Said nonprofit
corporation or trust shall only dispose of or use said real or personal
property subject to covenants or other legally binding restrictions which
will promote the preservation or conservation of the property, and,
where appropriate, secure rights of public access.
40. A former Rosenwald school Oak Grove School, Bethania
that’s now a museum.
41. One of the last African-American schools
built in NC, it will be converted into
affordable housing and other community
uses.
Dunbar School, Lexington
99. Once unneeded and unwanted,
these surplus public properties
once again serve their communities
in a variety of new uses –
representing more than
$50 million in historic rehabilitation!
100. Know of a surplus public property
that needs a new use?
Let Preservation North Carolina know.
[click here!]
You can fill out our online form at
PreservationNC.org/Surplus
101. Protecting the IrreplaceableTM
in North Carolina since 1939
220 Fayetteville Street Mall, Suite 200
P. O. Box 27644, Raleigh, NC 27611-7644
919-832-3652 • fax 919-832-1651 • info@presnc.org
www.PreservationNC.org