The Office for Junior Achievement of Central North Carolina, Inc., located at 3220 Northline Drive, is our feature for Monochrome Monday.According to their website, the goal of Junior Achievement is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
In the southern region of the United States, much emphasis is placed on being civic minded. Southerners like giving back to the community as well as acknowledging and documenting acts for the greater good. The Junior Achievement property is no exception. The above property represents an amalgam of community effort. The house, known as the Starmount Farm House, was the home of Blanche and Edward Benjamin. On May 17, 1999, it was dedicated to Junior Achievement by the Starmount Company and the Benjamin Family. The porches were dedicated by H. Michael Weaver in honor of W. Herman Weaver. Finally, the prominently featured triangular sculpture was donated by the Greensboro Kiwanis Foundation. This property has quite a pedigree!!
Junior Achievement has been a community/business effort to mentor and inspire students since 1916. To learn more about the history of the organization, please read here.
Somewhere in my travels I've heard about Junior Achievement. What an informative post. What an incredible house that you capture nicely in monochrome.
Posted by: slim | Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 11:37 PM
How wonderful to find you picture and history! I was in JA in Indiana in high school many, many years ago and it was a very memorable experience.
Posted by: bettyl | Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 11:55 PM
A vaunting ambition - you have illustrated it well.
Posted by: Aileni | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 01:57 AM
Another interesting post, with a great monochrome photo, too!
Posted by: cieldequimper | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 02:35 AM
Interesting post and a lovely old home! I wish Italians were more generally civic-minded!
Posted by: saretta | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 06:00 AM
What a monumental difference in living styles. Compare this to the simple houses in my town or the village where I was born and it is amazing.
The Hamlet of Gordon
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 06:19 AM
That's a beautiful house and a very interesting post.
Posted by: Carver | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 09:37 AM
What a stately building. The house was donated by someone and the porches by someone else? Sounds like American synagogues - there, practically each chair has its own donor LOL.
Posted by: Robin from Israel | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Nice and thanks for the background!
Posted by: Daryl | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 01:07 PM
That sounds absolutely wonderful! It is organizations like this that really give me hope for the future.
It's a gorgeous old house too.
Posted by: Hilda | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 01:06 AM