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• 1 Page 2 EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA GUIDEBOOK WINS AWARDS A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina , by Catherine W . Bishir and Michael T . Southern , received the Antoinette Forrester Downing Award, from the Society of Architectural Historians . The Downing award, a major national prize that recognizes the contributions of historic preservation surveys , was presented at the annual meeting of the society in Los Angeles on April 17 , 1998 . Dell Upton, chair of the Downing award committee , presented the award, which was accepted by Bishir, Southern , and Claudia Brown, head of the Survey and Planning Branch . Upton emphasized the HPO ' s longtime commitment to the statewide survey and to highm . quality publications . He cited the Guide to the Historic A rchitecture as " accessible and engaging, " " accurate and exemplary. " By bringing the findings of the architectural survey to the interested public , the book is " helping to shape a broad popular constituency for architectural history and preservation . " North Carolina ' s emphasis on publishing the findings of the statewide survey has been acknowledged in previous Downing awards for the local survey publications on Burke , Pitt , and Wake Counties . -- Catherine W. Bishir OFFICE OF STATE ARCHAEOLOGY' S LANE STREET RESEARCH CENTER With invaluable support from Deputy Secretary Betsy Buford and generous financial backing from the department and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) , the HPO ' s Office of State Archaeology (OSA) will soon occupy a newly renovated archaeology research center at 215 West Lane Street in Raleigh . Both floors of the Old Textbook Warehouse have been completely remodeled for collections processing , storage , and research . The 1920s vintage brick building formerly housed the North Carolina Museum of History exhibits shop and large object collections . More than five years ago state archaeologist Steve Claggett and OSA lab manager Billy Oliver put in a successful " bid " to take over the building for conversion to a lab/repository ; however , funds for design and renovation were slower in coming . Fortunately , NCDOT and the Federal Highway Administration were willing to help DCR put together a half-million-dollar funding package that used enhancement moneys from the state ' s share of the Internodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) . The OSA research center is nearing completion , and budget requests for furniture , supplies , and staffing for the new center have been submitted to DCR so that the facility can be opened to the public . By early 1999 OSA staff, archaeologists , students , teachers , and others will be able to use and enjoy more than fourteen thousand square feet of floor space , multiple museum-quality cabinets and specimen cases , sinks , storage racks , loading docks , and an elevator. All those hundreds of boxes of stone tools , sherds , animal bone fragments and broken teacups that are the " business of archaeology" will finally have a home to be proud of.