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Kaleideum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was created from the July 2016 merger of Children's Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County. The two old properties were closed in December 2023, and the new unified museum opened in downtown Winston-Salem on February 7, 2024.
The Stevens Center was originally the Carolina Theater, a movie theatre, before it was donated to the School of the Arts in 1980 by the Winston-Salem Journal.It was renovated by the School of the Arts using $9.6 million in state bond money and opened on April 22, 1983, with a star-studded gala featuring the UNCSA symphony Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Isaac Stern as soloist ...
Notable buildings include the Beaux-Arts style former United States Post Office (1914-1915, 1936-1937) with an addition by Northup and O'Brien, Brown-Rogers-Dixson Company Building (1928), Centenary Church Education Building (1920s), Pure Oil Station, City Market (1925), and Twin City Motor Company (1925).
Trader Joe's opened a 13,000-square-foot location, its first in Winston-Salem, in October 2012 [14] in the former Borders space. [15] As of 2019, Dewey's Bakery was the last remaining original tenant. [3] That same year, a time capsule was opened which had been buried at the time of the opening of Thruway Theatre February 14, 1969. A new one ...
"No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France" or "Willie McBride") is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, the "Last Post" and the "Flowers of the Forest".
SECCA was founded in 1956 as the Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine Arts in Old Salem. [1] [2] James Gordon Hanes of the locally prominent Hanes family, who died in 1972, bequeathed his Norman Revival home built in 1929 and grounds to the gallery. The home was augmented with purpose-built exhibition space, and SECCA moved to the new location in 1977 ...
North Cherry Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in a historically African-American residential section of Winston-Salem.
Ziggy's was a live music venue and bar in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The venue in Baity Street closed after Thanksgiving in 2007. On August 5, 2011, Ziggy's reopened in Winston-Salem, in a 14,000 sq ft space on the corner of 8th and Trade St. in the Downtown Arts District. That venue closed down on February 21, 2016.