Under Review: National Register Historic District proposals made for Sunnyside, Centerville neighborhoods
By Mary Giunca
JOURNAL REPORTER
The Sunnyside neighborhood often gets ignored in favor of its more famous neighbor to the west.
“We exist and we’re tiny,” said Natasha Gore, who has lived in Sunnyside since 2004. “I think Winston-Salem’s perception of Sunnyside is that it’s really insignificant. We’re adjacent to Washington Park and we get eaten up by the hoopla of Washington Park.”
But with its smaller, more eclectic atmosphere, the neighborhood has a lot to offer, Gore said.
She said she hopes that having the area gain recognition as a National Register Historic District will help people distinguish Sunnyside as a neighborhood with its own distinct history. The Centerville neighborhood, which is north of Sunnyside, is also under review as a historic district.
Sunnyside neighbor is a talented cookie baker
0 Comments Published December 8th, 2007 in Neighbor Spotlight, Fun, AwardsBunny Llewellyn was given Honorable Mention in the Winston-Salem Journal’s 2007 Holiday Cookie Contest!
As article says, “Lllewellyn’s Chocolate Double Delights, won over the judges with its filling, which adds just the right amount of peppermint to complement the chocolate.” Read the full article.
Those of us who have tasted Bunny’s delicious cookies, personally think she should have taken home the big prize, but there’s always next year!
Here’s the recipe:
Chocolate Double Delights
Honorable mention submitted by Bunny Llewellyn. People who want less mint taste may wish to start with ⅛ teaspoon extract and taste the filling before adding more.
Cookie:
1½ cups firmly packed light brown sugar
¾ cup butter
2 tablespoons water
1 12-ounce package semisweet chocolate morsels
2 eggs
3 cups sifted flour
1¼ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Peppermint cream filling:
3 cups confectioners’ sugar, divided use
⅓ cup softened butter
⅛ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon plus 3 drops peppermint (or spearmint) extract
¼ cup milk
1. To make the cookies, heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheets. Combine brown sugar and butter in a saucepan over moderate heat, stirring constantly until butter is melted.
2. Remove pan from heat and stir in water and chocolate morsels. Stir until chocolate has melted. Beat in eggs.
3. In a bowl, sift flour, baking soda and salt together until well combined. Gradually add flour mixture to chocolate mixture.
4. Drop cookie dough by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until firm around the edges. Cool on a wire rack.
5. While cookies cool, make the filling. Combine 1 cup of the confectioners’ sugar with the butter, salt and mint extract. Beat until light and fluffy. Gradually add 2 cups confectioners’ sugar and milk, alternating small amounts of each, and beating well with each addition.
6. Spread a little filling on a cookie bottom, then make a sandwich with a second cookie, bottom side next to the filling. Repeat until all cookies are used.
Makes about 4 dozen.
Sunnyside has lost a friend and neighbor. Oscar Wayne McCall, husband to Jackie and father to Shara and Sherri, passed away last Friday night. You may remember the McCall family from our last newsletter’s “Meet Your Neighbors” column. All of our love and prayers go out to the McCalls.
The Williams @ 2500 Stockton Street
Council rejects proposal for student housing
By Bertrand M. Gutierrez
JOURNAL REPORTER
The Gateway student-housing project is dead.
The Winston-Salem City Council rejected last night the $17 million project proposed by Place Properties Inc., after an hour of charged debate between an Atlanta developer and members of local historic-neighborhood groups.
Issues centered on a long list of concerns, including the project’s effect on traffic, property values, flooding and a large tract of wooded area in the Gateway, which is surrounded by the West Salem, Washington Park and Happy Hill neighborhoods.
But the deepest concerns were that the project seemed prone to deteriorating into a rooming house with transient residents and that the project was vastly different from the one submitted in 2004. That plan, which had been supported by neighborhood groups, had called for an elementary school in a 1.5-story building. The new plan called for two four-story buildings with 320 bedrooms. Continue reading ‘Place Properties project nixed for good’
We all could take a page from Jean Marie Gallagher’s gardening handbook. She managed to keep her beautiful front-yard garden in full bloom through the relentless heat of July and August. The Gallagher’s yard at 410 E. Sprague Street was chosen as our Blue Ribbon Yard for August 2007!
The Gallaghers have lived in their 1910 Bungalow since 1998. Jean Marie says that her husband, Thomas, surprised her one day a few years ago, and presented her with the entire front yard to use as the flower garden of her dreams. In bloom at the moment are red and white Impatients, tea roses, Sweet William, bright yellow and orange Marigolds, orange Blanket Flowers and pastel Snapdragons… among others! The yard is framed by a tidy boxwood hedge, split by an ornate arch covered with a climbing rose.
House rehabbing takes hold in Sunnyside
0 Comments Published August 17th, 2007 in Historic District, RenovationsRecently, an article in the Winston-Salem Journal featured the rehabbing of three houses (124, 120 and 116) on East Sprague Street between Stockton and Sunnyside. We think these clever renovators are seeing what we have seen all along…a wonderful neighborhood with beautiful old houses, some of which need help, but have miles of potential! Our neighborhood is slated to turn historic later this year, yet another reason to buy a home in Sunnyside now.
Triad House Buyers, LLC, mentioned in the article, has recently purchased their second home in the neighborhood, after completely renovating the home at 124 E Sprague Street, which had been empty for 25 years. Their next project is to give new life to the home at 107 E Sprague, that was badly damaged in a tragic fire last May. We are very grateful for their energy and artistic touch!
City gets new pitch: Developer has revised plan for student housing
By Mary Giunca
JOURNAL REPORTER
After withdrawing his request for a student-housing complex in the Gateway area in June, an Atlanta developer is back with a new plan that he said he hopes will be more acceptable to neighbors in the area….The city council would have to approve the new site design. Several years ago, the council approved an overall plan for the Gateway that included a small elementary school on part of the property. That is no longer part of the plan.
Sunnyside, along with neighborhoods and organizations all across the US, will celebrate National Night Out on Tuesday, August 7.
We will gather for ice-cold watermelon and socializing at 6:00 p.m. at Central Terrace United Methodist Church by the picnic / playground area (corner of Devonshire and S. Main streets). Come meet new neighbors and re-connect with old friends. Representatives from the Winston-Salem police department will be present as we celebrate their presence and involvement in our neighborhood.
This is the 24th year of NNO which is designed to “heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; and strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships.”
For more information, visit: www.nationalnightout.org.
City of Winston-Salem University gives citizens a better understanding of city government, including the responsibilities of various city departments and the city’s role in the community.
The 2007 eleven-week series begins September 6 and ends November 15. Classes are from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The classes meet at City Hall and various other locations.
Topics include city governance and finance, sanitation, utilities operations, streets and transportation, public safety, planning and economic development, housing and recreation, public facilities, and internal city operations.
You may apply for the class and find out more information here.
