Blueprint Community Tour

Blueprint Community Tour

Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101, United States

Created By: Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County

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See our work over the last 35 years from the comfort of your home.


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What You'll See on the Tour

The Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County campus is located at 1023 W. 14th Street in the Historic Boston Thurmond Neighborhood. Our campus consists of three buildings:  The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust Housing Education Center is ho... Read more
This is what you would see traveling N. Cherry Street in 2007.  Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County began revitalization efforts in the Boston Thurmond neighborhood alongside community partners in 2008 and became a part of the neighborh... Read more
The North Cherry Street Historic District's collection of medium-size houses and Y-Stair apartments are evidence of the status of a North Cherry Street address during the historic period. 
Kimberley Park Community Garden was included in former First Lady Michelle Obama’s book, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.” The garden at Kimberley Park is one of several mentione... Read more
Although the original Kimberley Park School, built for African American children in 1925, burned in the mid-1960s, the replacement building is still located in the neighborhood on the school's original site and maintains the carefully artic... Read more
At 2022 North Cherry Street sits the only Cape Cod Style house in the neighborhood. This was our affiliate’s first of two remodels of existing homes to historic preservation standards in the North Cherry Street historic District. The resi... Read more
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Along 23rd Street sit several homes built by Habitat Forsyth, and while we have made progress to revitalize this street and community, there is still work to be done.
SM Ceasar overlooks what was once Kimberley Park Terrace. As a part of a Hope 6 Housing and Urban Development project in partnership with the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem. HAWS redeveloped the former public housing area to include ne... Read more
A partnership in this community is with the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School’s Career Center. Students in the Construction Technology program begin construction on a house at the Kennedy High School campus. Once construction is well un... Read more
Heading east on Northwest Boulevard you will see Plyler Supply Company, one of our many supporters at the corner of Ivy Avenue and Northwest Boulevard. Plyler generously supports the work of Habitat Forsyth through discounted construction m... Read more
Another long-time partner with Habitat Forsyth as both vendor and donor is Smith Phillips Lumber Company.
This is the location where homes in partnership with the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schols Career Center begin construction.
This is the Choice Neighborhood Area for the Cleveland Avenue Transformation Plan, part of a $30 million dollar grant recently awarded to the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem from HUD to revitalize East Winston-Salem. Habitat Forsyth is ... Read more
The KaBoom! playground was built in partnership with residents, the Dreamland Park Neighborhood Association, Habitat Forsyth, and the KaBoom! Organization. It was funded by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.
Established in 1972, the Delta Arts Center's mission is “...to enrich the lives of neighborhood and area residents by stimulating interest, increasing awareness and knowledge throughout the entire community in American Arts and Humanities... Read more
St. Paul United Methodist Church, founded in 1872 and the first African American Church in the city of Winston before the twin cities joined.
Habitat Forsyth is working with many partners to fulfill the vision of a revitalized community, with the residents leading the transformation plan. Our partners include the Dreamland Park Neighborhood Association, City Council member Annett... Read more
This was the residence of local brick-maker, George Black, whose handmade bricks can be found throughout Winston-Salem and the Southeast. The property is on the National Register of Historic Places as being nationally significant. Not only ... Read more
The United Way for Forsyth County’s Place Matters Initiative neighborhood begins at Bowen Boulevard with the goal of transforming the neighborhood into a healthy and thriving community. Conditions in this neighborhood are similar to Kimbe... Read more
Our Neighborhood Revitalization work in the Bowen Park Neighborhood began in 2017, when we built the first newly constructed home in the area in over fifty years.
Viewable as you curve around Manchester to Ansonia Street you will see the Smith Reynolds Airport. Forsyth Tech is currently building the Mazie S. Woodruff Aviation Technology Lab where students are trained for jobs in the aviation industr... Read more
On Ansonia Street sits four completed Habitat homes and one currently under construction. Here at Short Street there are four other homes on Short Street and one last home on Ansonia. In total, we have built 9 new homes over the last four... Read more
Smith Reynolds Airport now serves as base of operations for corporate aircraft, air charter services, air cargo and commercial aircraft maintenance. Commercial service ceased operations in 2000. The airport began as a grass landing strip u... Read more
Our most recent acquisition of buildable land is Stone Terrace, an abandoned development that is the last remnant of the fallout from the great recession of 2008 in our area. Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County purchased this incomplete ... Read more

 

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