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I didn’t attend this week’s Council of State meeting Tuesday – oddly, it just wasn’t the most important thing going on at the time.

However, there was one item on the agenda of uniquely local interest to Greensboro. Rather than rewrite it, form the agenda:

Sit-In Movement, Inc., a non-profit organization, has secured a grant from Save America’s Treasures in the amount of $148,152 to preserve the historic former F. W. Woolworth Store located at 134 South Elm Street, Greensboro in Guilford County. The store was constructed circa 1929 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A condition of the grant requires the conveyance of a preservation easement to the State or non-profit organization. The Department of Cultural Resources, State Historical Resources, has been asked to accept a fifty-year (50) Preservation Easement covering the property at no cost to the State. The State will review and approve all structural alterations prior to commencement. No visual or structural alterations will be made without the prior written consent of the State. Sit-In Movement, Inc., is responsible for all restoration and future maintenance costs. Therefore, authorization is requested to accept the Preservation Easement from Sit-In Movement, Inc., for a period of fifty years.

I’m told the item was approved.

More info on Save America’s Treasures here.
More info on the Sit in museum here.