Live in Benbow Park

This guide follows the area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map calls Benbow Park: 200 acres west of the US 29 freeway, between East Gate City Boulevard and East Florida Street, with South Benbow Road running through it. The map is a layer made for the City's traffic-calming program, marked unverified, with outlines the City calls estimated. It is not an association's territory or a plat, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think Benbow Park ends. At the 2020 census its 34 blocks held 1,760 residents in 737 housing units, 2.39 to a unit.

It was built for the people a segregated city would not sell to elsewhere. The National Register nomination describes a district of more than two hundred acres, settled from about 1946 to 1976 by the professors, teachers, doctors, lawyers, architects and business owners of a Black community anchored by Bennett College, founded in 1873, and North Carolina A&T, founded in 1891. Their campus outlines are 0.7 km and 1.4 km from this guide's point. Most of it was platted by White developers for Black buyers, from Clinton Hills in 1926, little built before the war, to the Benbow Park subdivision of 1959 to 1962. Black architects, W. Edward Jenkins and William Streat among them, designed Modernist houses here. The civil rights lawyer Kenneth Lee lived in the district, as did Henry Frye, later the first Black Chief Justice of North Carolina's Supreme Court, and the surgeon Alvin Blount.

The City's line and the historic district are different shapes. The South Benbow Road Historic District, listed on 9 December 2024, runs roughly from Julian Street and Ross Avenue south to South Side Boulevard, Britton and Curry Streets, and west along Broad and Ross Avenues and Tuscaloosa Street. 620 of this guide's residents live inside it; the blocks between Julian Street and Gate City Boulevard are outside it. The Benbow Park subdivision lies south of East Florida Street, yet 1,412 of the line's 1,760 residents live north of it, on older streets.

The listing is recognition, not regulation. Federal law places no restriction on what a private owner does with a listed property, demolition included, unless federal money or a federal permit is involved. There is no City local historic district here, so there is no certificate of appropriateness to apply for. What the listing opens is credit: North Carolina returns 15% of qualifying rehabilitation spending on an owner-occupied house that contributes to the district, on work over $10,000 within 24 months, up to $22,500, and the state advises consulting its preservation office first.

The tax bill is set on 2022 values, for one more year. Guilford County and the City charge 158.80 centsper $100 for 2026-27, and no special district adds to it here. Senate Bill 889 held back the County's 2026 reappraisal, so this year's bill uses the 2025 assessment, which is the 2022 revaluation's: a buyer's first bill follows the seller's assessment, and the 2026 values go on the 2027 bill at rates not yet set. A house assessed at $150,000 owes $2,382. There is no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer; the County's relief is for low-income older or disabled owners and disabled veterans. Stormwater and solid waste fees come on the water bill and were read only secondhand. No sale price is published for this line. Zillow's typical value for the whole 27406 ZIP was $227,489 in August 2026, up 1.1% on the year, against $263,264 for the city: a ZIP figure, not this area's.