Click image to enlarge. Once an elegant downtown hotel, the Greensboro Hotel remains a local landmark with great potential for revival. The hotel began as a two-story building adorned with “Flemish bond” brick, an ornamental pattern of bricks in which each row consists of alternate headers and stretchers. This type of brickwork may indicate an early construction date—possibly sometime close to the 1830s. Around 1890 G. W. Duggar added a third story. Jeffries Blunt, a banker who also built the Greensboro Opera House, may have added the cast iron balconies after he “greatly improved” the hotel around 1906. During the early 1960s, Turpin Vise acquired the building and converted it into a sewing plant. Th e ground floor also housed a cafe and a ladies’ clothing store. Although the hotel guests and balconies are gone, the old Greensboro Hotel is ready for a new owner and a new lease on life. Redevelopment options could include housing, offices, restaurant, or retail space.
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