Latest news with #TryonPalace
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Multiple historic buildings to be featured on 2025 Heritage Homes Tour in New Bern
NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) — Established in 1710, New Bern is one of the oldest towns in North Carolina. It also served as the state's first capitol and is home to the first Governor's House, Tryon Palace. 'I was in Miss Sadie Dixon's fifth-grade class, in fact, that's the room that's open for the homes tour,' New Bern Historical Society Curator Jim Hodges said. For more than 100 years in New Bern, the building at 517 Hancock Street served as a grade school. 'It is a beautiful, old building,' Hodges said. 'This was built in 1884, amazingly at that time, it cost $8,821.' Philadelphia-based architect Samuel Sloan designed the building with eight large classrooms and 40 large windows. 'They called it the NB Graded School but because of the bell in the cupula, they called it the bell building,' Hodges said. Students stopped attending classes at the building back in the 1970s, leaving it empty for several years until a couple bought the building and transformed it into high-end apartments. This is just one of the historic buildings on the homes tour this year. 'New Bern is an extremely historic town with a lot of overlapping entities invested in telling New Bern stories,' Anthony Giardino with the New Bern Historical Society said. A total of 11 homes and five churches are opening the doors to let people inside, offering a glimpse into the history of New Bern and what it takes to preserve these pieces of the past. 'The Stanley building has gone through a lot of transformation,' Hodges said. 'During Union occupation, that was used by Union forces, a lot of the buildings, this was a medical hub during the occupation.' Unlike most military commanders of his time, General Ambrose Burnside didn't destroy New Bern when he left. 'That's why we still have such a wonderful representation, 18th- and 19th-century houses,' Hodges said. 'It's all about sharing those stories, the people, the events and learning what's taken place in these important places,' Giardino said. The tour is May 2-3 and it is self-guided and tickets are available here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Discover locally grown plants at Tryon Palace's Spring Plant Sale
NEW BERN, N.C (WNCT) — Tryon Palace in New Bern is hosting its annual Spring Plant Sale the weekend of Apr. 11-13, 2025. There are roughly 500 locally grown plants to choose from. 'We are able to grow a lot of this stuff and that really helps for our local gardeners, because we can also say, 'Yes, we saw what it did this past winter. Yes, it went through snow. Yes, it went through ice. Yes, it went through 110-degree temperatures,'' Director of Facilities and Gardens at Tyron Palace Hadley Merizaldecheris said. 'And that really helps people have some faith in what they're putting in their yards and we want that to be the thing that when people get plants from us, they're able to look at it and go, 'Oh, yeah, I got that at Tryon Palace.'' The sale will be Saturday, Apr. 12, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Tryon Palace Gardens will also be open to the public and free for everyone. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
