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History couldn't save Fayetteville's Womble House
Posted October 13, 2008 3:21 p.m. EDT
Updated October 14, 2008 7:55 a.m. EDT
Fayetteville, N.C. — A historic Fayetteville house is no more.
Black entrepreneur New Year Womble built the Womble House in 1910 as a single-family home. It later was used as a hotel for blacks during segregation.
Upon learning of the building's past, the city halted plans to knock it down and gave the owner until Sept. 5 to submit a restoration plan.
The city attorney said no progress was made, however, and the building was demolished.
