02/23/2024
It’s the last weekend to come see this exhibit! I will be there with some new items!!!! Come by and see me! 😃😁😃
There's only one more Saturday (February 24) to experience the city's We Built This exhibit at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Farmers’ Market. In March, the exhibit moves to the C.G. O’Kelly Library on Winston-Salem State University's campus.
We Built This highlights Black builders and craftspeople in North Carolina, including:
George H. Black
Master brick maker George H. Black provided handmade bricks to Old Salem, Colonial Williamsburg and Wachovia Bank. Learn more from his granddaughter, Evelyn Terry, during the grand opening of the exhibit here: https://youtu.be/piRrlyRwCY0?si=117LfwWM_YCJ6DZw.
Atkins Hall
Slater State Normal & Industrial School hired brick maker and contractor George D. Reynolds to make 200,000 bricks for the construction of Atkins Hall, a dormitory for female students that opened in 1915.
Frank Murrell
Stone mason Frank Murrell was trained at North Carolina A&T State University during the 1930s through a Works Progress Administration program.
B.C. Coppedge
Stone mason B.C. Coppedge came out of retirement at age 82 in 1971 to build a stone wall on Jackson Avenue for the Redevelopment Commission.
Jimmy Norwood & Wesley Curtis
Wesley Curtis Jr. and Jimmy Norwood Jr. are the only Black architects practicing in Winston-Salem today.
For exhibit hours and more info visit: CityOfWS.org/1394/Outreach-and-Education.