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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2007
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YOUR GUIDE TO THE CHARLOTTE REGION
Music fans are welcome
to jam with Folk Society
Michael Crump, who recently moved to south
Charlotte, wrote me not long ago in search of fellow
bluegrass fans to have “jam sessions” with.
“My problem is that I can’t
find any bluegrass musicians in
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Charlotte,” he e-mailed. “I
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KNOW that there are blueor Ldyer@
grass musicians around. I just
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don’t know how to make the
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connection.”
Leigh Dyer
I put him in touch with the
Charlotte Folk Society, which
offers just what he’s asking for.
The group, which recently
celebrated its 25th anniversary,
holds a free concert the second
Friday of every month at Central Piedmont Community College near uptown,
and after each concert there’s an instrumental jam
session and a song circle.
If you want to check them out, the group is holding its annual “Holiday Potluck &
Jam” from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 2, in
the Great Hall of the Charlotte Museum of History, 3500 Shamrock
Drive in Charlotte. The event is
open to the public. Those attending
are asked to bring a dish to share or
donate $5 per person. The event Royal
will include a song circle at 5:30, dinner at 6, and an
after-dinner performance by singer/songwriter
Natalie Royal. Jamming will end the evening. More
info: 704-563-7080 or www.folksociety.org.
Chosen Best of Show, this lakefront home offers water views from front and back. The house also was honored in the top custom home category.
Best
of the
Home Editor
28269 The Mecklenburg ZIP code with the
most newcomers – 16,660 moved to the
northeast Mecklenburg area around Highland
Creek between April 2004 and November 2007,
according to research firm InfoUSA.
New Around Here
Roland Gardner, 58
From: Upstate New York in June.
Why here? To open a franchise of an
auto damage appraisal business. “I
thought it was time for a change.”
Where’s he living? Cornelius.
Tip: “I found it very easy to get adjusted. The people
here go out of their way to be very friendly. I haven’t
been out and about (enough) – I want to go into
downtown Charlotte and walk around and try the restaurants and such.”
Lake
WINNERS OF DESIGN AND BUILDING CONTEST
SHARE HIGH-ARCING BUDGETS, FINE DETAIL
By Allen Norwood
Crunching the numbers
PHOTO COURTESY OF PATRICK JOSEPH & ASSOCIATES
PATRICK JOSEPH & ASSOCIATES
The Lake Norman Home Builders decided
to award the first “Best of Show” in their annual design and construction competition – and
judges chose a winner that measures up to
that lofty label.
The winner was a custom lake home by Patrick Joseph & Associates, which demonstrated what’s possible with a generous budget and
infinite attention to detail.
The massive home – it contains 10,000
square feet – features an exterior of natural
wood shingles with gentle arches and tapered
columns defining its porches. Inside, high-
lights include more rich woods, layered lighting, and Tiffany stained glass. The house sits
on a peninsula and offers lake views from both
its front porch and rear deck – and most of the
main living spaces in between.
Jim Shalvoy of Patrick Joseph said he and
his employees were “humbled and elated.”
He said, “We’re up against some great builder competition, at the lake in particular. “So
we’re particularly flattered.”
The $3.2 million home was built for a couple
who moved to the lake from Washington, D.C.
He’s a commercial architect, Shalvoy said, and
helped shape many of the interior highlights
cited by judges.
The builders announced winners in their
fourth annual Best of the Lake judging at a
banquet last week. This year, 23 contractors
entered new homes and renovation projects
with a total value of $26 million. Projects were
judged in categories based on size and price.
The Patrick Joseph shingle house took the
top prize in the largest custom home category,
as well as Best of Show. The company also
won a second and honorable mention in another category.
Others who won multiple prizes were International Kitchen and Bath, Schreiner Custom Homes, Tegland-Brown Construction
and Zande Homes.
Some of the winning homes might seem familiar: A Fort Mill house by E.S. Johnson
Builders was part of HomeArama last spring.
A lakefront house by Kenneth Bealer Homes
was on the Luxury Home Tour a month before
HomeArama, and a house by EFC Builders
was featured in our 2005 series on feng shui
design.
Judges this year were interior designers Janice Craig and Ann Newton Spooner, Donna
Wyatt of Aesthetics Inc., architect Roger Layman and home designer Rob Foster.
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A complete list of winners and more pictures
Online Extras
The blog “New Around Town” and extensive resources
from Living Here magazine: WWW.CHARLOTTE.COM/living
PHOTO COURTESY OF TEGLAND-BROWN
TEGLAND-BROWN CONSTRUCTION
The exterior of this Mooresville home features cement-based
shakes and cultured stone. The house won top prize for
“Speculative new homes 3,001 to 4,000 square feet.”
Real Estate
Price trends?
Area stats among
nation’s best
ZANDE HOMES
PHOTO COURTESY OF ZANDE HOMES
Brent Zande set out to create a lake house with coastal appeal. The judges thought he
succeeded, and named this the winner among “Custom new homes 3,001 to 4,000 square
feet.”
STABLE SINGLE-FAMILY PRICES
Buried near the bottom of a recent press release
from the National Association of Realtors was this
bit of news:
“The strongest (single-family home) price increase in the South was in the
Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord area
of North Carolina and South Carolina, at $220,100, up 11 percent from
a year ago.”
The Wednesday release was
about median home prices for the
Allen
third quarter, compared with the
Norwood
same three months in 2006. And,
the association said, the figures showed that median
home prices in most metro areas across the country
rose or held stable.
The national median closing price dipped 2 percent, to $220,800, but that’s because sales at the upper end have been particularly hard hit during the
current slowdown.
The most important message buried in the statisSEE NORWOOD|8H
E.S. JOHNSON PHOTO
JOHN MARHALL PHOTO
E.S. JOHNSON
JOHN MARSHALL CUSTOM HOMES
If you visited HomeArama last spring, you might recognize this stylish setting. It’s in E.S.
Johnson’s showcase home overlooking the golf course at Springfield in Fort Mill. The house was
named best among “Speculative new homes greater than 4,000 square feet.”
This transformation won the top award for “Renovations over
$275,000.” John Marshall Custom Homes gutted the first
floor and added a second level to this house in Davidson.