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Greensboro, N. C.
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INTRODUCTION
The present volume constitutes the 1927 edition of the Hill Direc- tory Co.'s Greensboro City Directory. The work embodies all available and vital data relating to the civic, commercial, financial and industrial interest and activities of the municipality, and is complete in all its parts.
The publication has had the benefit and advantage of the complete organization of the publishers, of the skill and experience of their corps of compilers, and, added to this, the courteous co-operation of the citi- zens.
All the features embodied in previous editions are repeated in this volume with additions and improvements as suggested by experience, thus adding to the value and usefulness of this Directory.
The statistical review following this introduction, prepared by the Chamber of Commerce, clearly visualizes the many and varied advan- tages and characteristics of the city.
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 21 to 104, printed on tinted paper, includes numerous advertisements of the leading manufacturing, busi- ness and professional interests of Greensboro. These have been care- fully grouped by departments and are indexed under classified head- ings and otherwise in various parts of the Directory. This is not display advertising, primarily, however, but rather is it reference ad- vertising at its best. A casual perusal of these advertisements will pic- ture many interesting phases of the city's activities. In a progressive manufacturing city like Greensboro the need for this kind of informa- tion readily at hand is very great, and the general appreciation of this need is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in many and varied fields of activity.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of citizens, business con- cerns and corporations in Greensboro is included in pages 105 to 604.
THE STREETS AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS covers pages 605 to 746. In this section the names of the streets and avenues of Greensboro are arranged in alphabetical order, the residences and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of house- holders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY, pages 749 to 803. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and pro- fessional interests in Greensboro and adjoining boroughs, in alphabeti- cal order by headings appropriate to the interests represented. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the busi- ness interests of the community. "The Directory is the common in- termediary between Buyer and Seller.,,
GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations
104
Alphabetical Directory
105
Banks
754
Buyers' Directory
21
Cemeteries
758
Churches
759
City Government
179
Classified Directory
749
Clergymen
761
Clubs
762
County Government
195
Courts
196 228
Fire Department
179
Hospitals and Asylums
774
IOOF.
318 S
Index to Advertisers
Insurance Companies
775
Junior OU A M.
339
Knights of Pythias
341
Libraries
783 17
Manufacturers in Greensboro
Masonic Orders. .
391
Moose Loyal Order of .
369
Parks
789
Police Department.
180
Preface
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Red Men.
318
Schools and Colleges
797
Street Directory
605
United States Post Office
554
Woodmen of the World.
594
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The information in this book is gathered, as far as possible, by actual canvass, and is compiled in a way to ensure maximum accuracy. The publishers cannot, of course, guarantee the correctness of infor- mation furnished them nor the complete absence of mistakes, hence no responsibility for errors can be assumed, but we will welcome the bring- ing to our attention of any inaccuracies so that correction may be made in the next Directory.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Armfieldl Motor Co. ... .. right side lines and
Atlantic Bridge Co Inc ... . right bottom lines and
Auto Tire Accessory Co .. 23
Banks Realty Co .. front cover and ST dene. son Standard Life Insurance Co. ..
63 Bartlett Wm D . right side lines and
Budenbaugh B A Benson's Cleaning & Dye Works.
Bernau R C ... ... right top lines and
Blake Chas J Insurance Agency. . marginal line, front cover and 63
Blake-Pate Seed Co.
Brown Geo 0 & Co. .right side lines and
Purchett . .. .marginal line, back cover and 83
Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
Callum-Sapp Ine
Campbell W E. left side lines and
Carlton Phil R Inc ..
3ยบ
Carolina Credit Co.
3
Carolina Warehouse Inc.
Central Industrial Bank.
Cheek B S. right side lines and
Cheek I C Co
Citizens Coal Co. .. . .left side lines and 43 20
Coble & Starr Motor Co. .
Coffield-Groome Furniture Co.
Columbia Laundry Co. . ... .right bottom lines and 73 2.7 Monarch Machine & Mfg Co Inc.
Comer P B. .
Craven E F Co ... .left bottom lines and
Crevensten C G ;. .left top lines and 93
Daniel-Stabler-Thompson Ine. . . left side lines and Fick's Laundry Co. . marginal line, back cover and Dixie Fire Insurance Co.
93 73 58
Dobie Geo R & Co .. left side lines and 23 68
Durham Life Insurance Co ..
Durham & Sheets. .. marginal line, back cover and 46 Edwards Dry Cleaning Co. Ellis Sign Co. .
99
Everett, Hollowell. Davis & Co ..
Fetter \ W .. .. marginal line, front cover and
.right top lines and 64 83
First Realty & Loan Co .... . . left ton lines and
Five Points Motor Co. ... .. left side lines and 25
Oettinger Lumber Co. .left side lines and
Ogburn. . . left side lines and 95 52
Osborne Service Station.
Parker Coal Co Inc .. .. left bottom lines and
Parnell C J Storage Co. ..... .left side lines and 100
4I
Philadelphia Battery Service Co. .
Phipps Hardware Co Inc ...... .left top lines and 55 97
Piedmont Cafe. ..
Pilot Life Ins Co. Poole & Blute Inc .. .front cover and front cover and 61 50 27 Pullen A M & Co. R & II Motor Co ... Rawlins I Max Motor Co. . . . left bottom lines and Rawls Chevrolet Co .. . .. left bottom lines and Redden Thos Gresham Inc. 34 35 69 12
Thedes Clothing Co The ... .left top lines and Roberts A P
Robins & Weill. front stencil. 63 and 96
Rones Jewelry Store. left side lines and
48
Greensboro Neht Bottling Co.
Greensboro Nurseries & Stock Farm.
left side .lines and 80
83
Greensboro Real Estate Board.
. back cover and Street Divider
Greensboro Screen & Heating Co. Griffin J L & Co .... .right side lines and
Guilford Hrdware Co ... . right side lines and
75 Guilford Lumber Mfg Co. .. ... right side lines and Guilford Motor Car Co Ine. . right side lines and 36
Guilford Printing Co. ST
Hammel Wm 0 A right side lines and 65
Ilane's Funeral Home Inc. 100
Hanner Bros. . left ton lines and
So
Hardy E M Plumbing Co .. Harry Reece P. left bottom lines and
Hendrix I M Co. .left side lines and 99
Hickman Plastering Co ..
Home Bldg & Loan Assn. .... right top lines and Home Detective Co Inc.
39
... marginal line, back cover and 15
Hood System Industrial Bank The. .. 37 Howerton & Benner Co ....... right top lines and Hunt Bros. .. marginal line, inside front cover and
Hutton Frank R. . . marginal line, front cover and 94
Jackson Lee ... ... Jeffe. son Motors Inc. ...... . left bottom lines and 36
Jewel Box The. .right side Imes and
Johnson - Forms-Simmons Co ..
J. hnson's Puritying Systems Inc. Keeley Institute The .. 98
King Cotton Garage Inc. King Cotton Hotel. . .left bottom lines and King's Business College.
Koonts Henry V Inc. .. . . front cover and
Laidley Mi tor Co. .. .right side lines and 3.3 91
Lassiter J Hal. .... marginal line, front cover and Latham J E Co .. . bottom stencil and 90
Lucas Bros .. .. left side lines and MeClamroch Co The ... right side hines and 46 78 49 Marigold Cabm .. Mason-Miller & Casey Inc. .... left side lines and Matneson-Wills Real Estate Co me .. 65 91 Mebane-Russeli-Cress loc .. . . right side lines and Meredith Novelty Shop .. 34 SO 66
Murrimion Insurance Agency. . right side lines and Michael-Bivens Electrical Co. . left side lines and Milhkan Realty & Insurance Co. .
Mi- Valet Ine. .right side lines and 46
Moore A K Realty Co ........ right top lines and Moore J & Realty & Ins Co ...... back cover and Moore-Mitchell Co Inc ......... left top lines and Morris Plan Industrial Bank The.
69 38
Mosking Credit Clothing Co.
Mutual Ins Agency Ine The. . right top lines and
National Surety Co .. . . . .. right top lines and New Method Laundry Co. .... . right side lines and 74
New Process Tire & Supply Co Inc. . .. right bottom lines and 28
Noe-Equl Textile Mills Inc. .... left side lines and 36
22 North State Ins & Realty Co. . right top lines and North State Roofing Co .... . right bottom lines and Odell Hardware Co ... ... right bottom lines and
9,8
Fry. Stevens & Co .. ... top stencil and Gato City Bldg & Loan Assn. . right side lines and Gate City Furniture Co. ..
Gato City Motor Co ....... right bottom lines and 30
Gate City Roofing Co .. .. left side lines and 97
Gateway's Stores Inc.
Golden Rule Printing Co Inc.
Se 52
Gordon's Grocery ..
Greene Street Tire Co ...... right bottom lines and Greensboro Auto Electric Co ..
26
Greensboro Awning & Tent Co. . left side lines and 36
Greensboro Bank & Trust Bldg. 81 Greensboro Bargain House. 50 10 Greensboro Beauty School. Greensboro Hardware Co. . marginal line, inside back cover and
Greensboro Motor Car Co Inc ..
.right bottom lines and 33 Ross Harold L.
.Rowe & Roach Co Inc .. .right side lines and
Saslow's Inc. . . .right side lines and
Schiffman Jewelry Co ...
Sigmon Home Laundry Service. Sineath J I Garage.
31 21
Smith Auditing Co. . left side lines and
Smith Austin & Sm. lett side lines and
Smith. Matlock & Lindsay .left top lines and
23 56 19 96
Southern Mortgage Loan & Land Co ..
Stone Jos J & Co. .. .opp
Summit Dry Cleaning Co ..... . right top lines and Sun Life Insurance Co.
Sutton's Ine. .
T & H[ Motor Co .. . back cover and
Tatum-Turner Transfer Co. .... right top lines and 100. Tatum's Ine. .left top lines and 43
Tingen L W.
UT-Drive-It Co.
Vanstory Clothing Co. .back cover and 49
43
Wharton-Medearis Inc. . Young John A & Sons .. .left side lines and so
53
Fordham-MeDuffie Drug Co ..
Ford Body Co. ... .right bottom lines and 32 47 59 39 2. Peerless Cleaners Inc. .. left side lines and
Greensboro Music Co. . left side lines and 7.9 39
.left top lines and Greensboro Paint Co Inc ..
Smith's Ice Cream Co. . left side lines and Smoot Wm .I.
Steed Turned Column Works
Hardie Nokol Co Inc ..
Southern Real Estate C'o. . . backbone and Southside Hardware Co. ..... left bottom lines and 55 Stadiem's Jewelry Inc. . ... right top lines and 101 400 41 62
18 35
Carolina Steel & Iron Co.
39
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GENERAL GREENE
GREENSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Master Key to the South's Best Markets
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
GREENSBORO THE PIVOT OF THE PIEDMONT
Location, Climate, Population, Government, Commerce, Business, Industry, Schools, Recreation, Civic Spirit and Agriculture
By Publicity Department The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Airplane View of City
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A Pleasant Land
"As pleasant a country as ever the sun shined on; temperate and full of all sorts of excellent viands; wild boar is as common as the tamest bacon, and venison as mutton.
"And you shall live freely there, without sergeants, or courtiers, or lawyers-you may be an alderman there and never be a scavenger; you may be an officer and never be a slave. You may come to preferment enough- to riches and fortune enough-and have never the more villany nor the less wit. Besides, there we shall have no more law than conscience, and not too much of either; serve God enough, eat and drink enough, and enough is as good as a feast."
In the English comedy "Eastward Ho" of 1605, the engaging picture above was given of the new country awaiting settlers across the Atlantic and, although the years have brought their modifications in human cus- toms and wild life, those who know the temperate Carolina country realize that it is yet "as pleasant a country as ever the sun shined on."
Blessed by fortune with a pleasant year- round climate, freedom from destructive storm and flood, an abundance of natural resources in minerals, soils and forests. the people of the great piedmont area of North Carolina have contributed their labors in making it indeed a land of pleas- ant life and friendly custom, of progress in state and city government, of intelligent activity on farm, in store, in office and in factory.
Greensboro and the area surrounding it offer to the visitor all these advantages and a hundred others which must be experi- enced to be appreciated. There is work enough and play enough all the year to make for happiness and contentment.
Greensboro's history opened in 1808, when the county commissioners bought its
site from Ralph Gorrell for $98 and on the 48-acre plot a new county seat was es- tablished for Guilford county the court house in the center. Since the establish- ment of Guilford county from sections of Rowan and Orange counties a few years before the Revolution, the county seat hal been located at Martinsville and it was this site which was made memorable in the battle of Guilford Court House in which the Continental troops and militia of General Nathanael Greene met the British regulars under Cornwallis and, although they were forced to retire from the field, left the red- coats so badly crippled they had to with- draw to Wilmington and this was but a preliminary to the march to Yorktown, the siege there and the surrender.
Greensboro's history was uneventful for long years, the bare county seat gradually gathering around itself a cluster of homes and stores, and from its hardy native stocks furnishing its share of leaders and of fol- lowers in the long hard struggle for the making of an independent state.
Governor John Motley Morehead, her leading citizen for years, was a chief figure in the legislative approval and the organ-
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ization of the North Carolina railroad, which brought the first rail line to this city in 1856. The days of Civil War came on and Greensboro and Guilford sent their share of youth and valor to the field, many of these soldiers never returning. The slow. hard years of reconstruction passed and gradually there was recovery from the ex- hausted poverty which had stricken the land. Through the varying fortunes of financial depression and political disturb- ance, there was the upbuilding of a new reserve of power and the opening of the century found Greensboro ready for leader- ship in the industrial revolution in the piedmont area.
The Cones came to Greensboro and start- ed the industry which has since grown to world leadership in denim manufacture and to a vast output of various cotton goods. Harper J. Elam had originated the expres- sion "The Gate City" and people began to realize its truth, that in location and in
transportation facilities, Greensboro was the central meeting place of a splendid area of development. It was not perceived 25 years ago save by a few leaders and its full signifcance is not widely seen to-day, but the first quarter of the new century has brought proof enough of the astounding forces which are back of Greensboro's des- tiny and which will make its next 25 years of growth even more amazing than the last. The village has been transformed into a modern city of 50.000 persons, from com- parative poverty her resources have grown until the deposits in her banks to-day ex- ceed those of the entire state 25 years ago, her advance in every type of material pros- perity has been equalled by her progress in civic consciousness and pride. Greens- boro is awakening to her destiny of leader- ship in a magnificent industrial. commer- cial and agricultural region and the only difficulty in reading her future is to have the vision to encompass its greatness.
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Location and Natural Advantages
Greensboro is in the center of Guilford county and the county is just north of the geographical center of North Carolina. The state is roughly divided into three sections, the wide coastal plains of the east and the mountainous country of the west between them the rolling piedmont county, about equal in area to the other two and enjoying an even more temperate climate than either.
It is this piedmont country which is the heart of the industrial region of the south- east. In 17 southern states, only Missouri and Texas exceeded North Carolina's total value of manufactured products in 1926, a total of $1,050,434,000 and entailing south- ern leadership in cotton goods, tobacco products, furniture and other lines. During the current year more than $200.000.000 has been paid into the federal coffers in in- ternal revenue, chiefly on tobacco products. In 1926 her factory workers numbered 182 .- 235 and were paid $134,237,000.
The piedmont area is the very heart of North Carolina's factory region and it has over 75 per cent. of factories, workers and products the state shows. The piedmont also contributes its relative share to the agricultural products of the state. The value of North Carolina farm products in 1926 was $327.680.000, greater than in any other southern state save the empire of Texas.
Just as the piedmont is at the heart of North Carolina, her industry and agricul- ture, so Greensboro is at the heart of the piedmont. the veritable "Pivot of the Pied- mont." It is estimated that 600,000 people live within 50 miles of the city, that 75 manufacturing towns and cities are located
within that radius, that over $200.000.000 worth of merchandise and goods is sold in that area annually. This concentration of population and activity is growing more marked every year. It is doubtful if another area of equal size in the south can show the strength of the 50-mile circle with Greensboro as its heart and embracing the industrial centers of Winston-Salem and High Point.
Chief among the city's natural advantages is a climate with a normal average temper- ature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit, an evenly distributed precipitation of 47 inches a year, a growing season of over 200 days and freedom from extreme heat or cold.
Greensboro's advantages of locatiou are numerous. She is but 12 hours by fast train from New York and is, accordingly, within easy reach of the great marketing centers of the east. She is on the edge of the cotton belt and her dealers and manu- facturers of the staple have their supplies at hand without any heavy transportation charges. She is in the midst of the net- work of power lines which the Duke in- terests have thrown across the state and has easy access to cheap electrical energy. She is in an area where the foreign born are less than 1 per cent. of the population and where there is a plentiful supply of native white labor, competent and intelli- gent, she is, finally, in a region of scenic beauty and is the gateway through which the tourist cars pass each season by the tens of thousands on the way north or south.
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Progress in City Government
Greensboro has never had a scandal in her government. In 1921, however, the civic leaders rebelled against a conservative government which they considered staying too closely by the precedent and not taking heed of the demands of a new period in the city's growth. The city manager form of government was adopted, with a council composed of business and civic leaders. The same powers yet retain the conduct of the city's affairs, and the recital of the concrete achievements of the past six years reads like a fairy story.
Paved streets have been increased from 26 miles to 115 miles, water lines from 25 miles to 125 miles, a billion-gallon reser- voir has been established and a modern pipe line built to connect it with the mod- ernized pumping service and a rebuilt dis- tribution system comprising over 8,000 meters, sewer lines have been increased from 38 miles to over 120 miles, the police department has been doubled in size to present force of 52 men, the fire department quadrupled in size to strength of 50 men. a modern central station and two new sub- stations built, fire alarm boxes increased
from 40 to 165, a modern alarm service in- stalled and the department put on a full- paid basis. Advance in health work has been as notable with organization of a staff of 12 nurses retained the year round, the operation of a modern abattoir, the opera- tion of a modern incinerator. the establish- ment and enforcement of rigid inspection of milk and dairy products and many other phases of health activity.
A recent achievement of the city council was agreement with the Southern Railroad for erection of 12 underpass or overpass structures at a cost of $1,000,000 for elim- ination of the grade-crossing threat in Greensboro.
A work now being undertaken is the de- velopment of the vast area of parks which has been secured bisecting the city along the line of Buffalo creek. Along with this is planned the extension of the city library and the possible development of a com- munity center. Mayor E. B. Jeffress is mayor of the city, while members of the council are R. R. King Jr., David White, E. R. Ford, Fred Taylor, Julius Cone and W. M. Ridenhour. P. C. Painter is the capable city manager.
Population and Area
The United States census of 1920 gave Greensboro a population of 19,861, but a special census count by the government agencies in 1926 gave the city a total of 48,500 persons. This gain was largely ac- counted for in the expansion in the city's area which was made in 1923 by special act of the legislature. There also entered into the new figure, however, an unprecedented increase in the number of people living in the metropolitan area of the city, an in- crease which to-day has resulted in the suburban areas becoming almost as densely settled as were the regions which were taken into the city in 1923.
As increased in size, Greensboro has an area of slightly over 17 square miles. With- in this territory there is certainty that well over 50,000 people are living to-day.
Less than 25 per cent. of the city's pop- ulation is negro and the negro citizens are far above the average in intelligence and in racial restraint. This is perhaps due to the fact that the people of the city have always played fair with the negroes in edu- cational facilities and that, in addition to good common school advantages, Greensboro has three colleges of excellent reputation in training members of the race.
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