Category Archives: Greensboro GA

McCommons-Thornton House, Circa 1900, Greensboro

Terri Thornton writes: As the proprietor of this home, I was thrilled to see it posted on Facebook and your website. We just had the front porch floors and rails reinforced and replaced old rotting wood this past summer. We have found a lot of surprises when we take on a project, but the surprises only makes us love the home more. We purchased this house in 1989 from Dot McCommons. She and her husband raised 2 daughters in this home. She also was a secretary at the high school and her husband was a partner in McCommons Big Store. Miss Dot established a lovely rose garden in the side yard. Several of the rose bushes have died but we still try to maintain as much as we can. I researched the Circa date on this home several years ago and it dates back to somewhere around the late 1890’s and early 1900’s.

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Grand Oaks, Greensboro

It was a cold November morning when I took a walk around Greensboro, shooting places that caught my eye. This grand old home was a standout. It’s just around the corner from Holcomb’s Bar-B-Q.

Holcomb’s Bar-B-Q, Greensboro

Holcomb’s opened their first location in nearby White Plains in 1971. Still open, the original is as famous for its sawdust dining room floor as it is for its Brunswick stew. People drive from miles around to buy the stuff by the gallon! This location, opened in 1981,  is a bit better known, just because Greensboro is a bigger town than White Plains, and it seems appropriate that it’s located in an old gas station. George Dyar writes: Amoco Oil built this station in the early 1960s. John Bledsoe was the manager. 2 bay filing station and changed/repaired many logging and farm tires. Used them many times.

Davis-Evans House, 1854, Greensboro

This imposing home, one of the oldest in Greensboro, served for many years as the Methodist parsonage and is now the church office.

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Greensboro United Methodist Church, 1911

From the First United Methodist Church of Greensboro website: The Methodist Church as an organization in Greene County dates back to 1797, six years after the death of John Wesley, when Bishop Francis Asbury appointed 28 year old James Jenkins Pastor of the Washington Circuit…

During the early years in Greensboro, Methodists conducted Worship services in the Presbyterian Church where Bishop Asbury preached in 1799. A log meeting house was built around 1799-1800 on Laurel Avenue. During 1825-1826, this log meeting house was replaced with a frame structure on the same site. The frame structure was later moved to a location on Broad Street just west of the current Broad Street Campus. In 1859, the frame structure was replaced with a brick building at a cost of approximately $8,000. Because of increasing train traffic interrupting Worship services, planning for a building at a new location was started in 1908. The present Broad Street Campus church was built in 1911 at a cost of approximately $23,000 and expanded/renovated in 1959, 1973 and 1994.

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of  Historic Places

 

Greensboro Herald-Journal Window Signs

These are some of my favorite window signs in Georgia. They’re quite clever!

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Main Street Storefronts, Greensboro

Greensboro has a small but well-maintained historic downtown.

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Hunter’s Drug Store, Greensboro

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Copelan Building, 1889,Greensboro

This was the Towne House Restaurant for many years. It was originally the Copelan National Bank. E. A. Copelan was the bank president.

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

McCommons Big Store, 1858, Greensboro

Built by Charles Alfred Davis, Sr., in the late 1850s and opened in 1860, this structure featured a blacksmith shop and stables in its early days. Later,  J. H. McCommons purchased it and it became known as “The Big Store”.

Greensboro Historic District, National Register of Historic Places