Guilford College Historic District (Boundary Decrease)

This amendment removes about 3.9 acres from the northeast corner of the Guilford College Historic District in Greensboro. The area lies in a post-World War II suburban neighborhood north of the campus and consists of all or part of six single-family houses on Bennington Drive, built after 1950 in Colonial Revival, Ranch, Dutch Colonial Revival and Split Level styles. It also includes one vacant parcel and portions of three others owned by the college. The land was placed inside the district because a 1990 survey map wrongly showed the whole corner as undeveloped campus woods. A 1999 survey showed that most of it had already been developed with private houses unrelated to the college, and that several lots were never owned by the college. The college-owned lots lie across the street from the campus among residential properties and were never treated as part of it. The boundary was redrawn to follow the true edge of the historic campus, and the reviewer accepted the decrease.