Use the referential photos below as you tour downtown Raleigh’s historic business district. All historic photos come from the NC Department of Archives unless otherwise noted.
Briggs Hardware Building
Exterior Storefronts on Fayetteville Street – 1920s?Briggs & Boylan-Pearce Storefronts 1948
Heilig-Levine Building c. 2004 (Photo from Wake County Real Estate Records)
The Raleigh Times Building
Newsboys outside of Raleigh Times Building 1915Raleigh Times Buildings – 1940s (Photo courtesy of Empire Properties)East Hargett Street facing West, c. 1946. Photo from Goodnight Raleigh
The Raleigh Building
The Raleigh Building in 1913 – known as The Raleigh Banking and Trust Company Building
The Commerce Building / Odd Fellows Building
The Oddfellows Building in 1940
Capital Club Building
Capital Club Building – photo likely from the 1940s
Hotel Sir Walter
Hotel Sir Walter c. 1920sHotel Sir Walter some time after 1938Yarborough House, a “cohort” of Hotel Sir Walter, was across the street from the Courthouse until 1928 when it burned. Photo appears to be from the turn of the century.
Capital Bank Plaza
Aerial View of Downtown – BB&T Building in SE corner of photo, c. 1966
SkyHouse / Edison (The future of Raleigh)
300 block of Wilmington Street, c. 1926300 Block of Wilmington Street 2013 (Personal photo)
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