#TBT We are throwing back to 1930 today, and to the land that would become Cameron Village. Once a part of the estate of Duncan Cameron, a lawyer, judge and president of the State Bank of North Carolina, this 160 acre section of undeveloped property about two miles west of downtown Raleigh was sold […]
#TBT We are throwing back to 1940 today, and a crowd waiting at the entrance of the State Theatre to see Gone With The Wind. The State Theatre, located downtown on Salisbury Street, opened in 1924, in the midst of the “Roaring Twenties”. The lower level seated 700 people, while the balcony held an […]
We are flashing back to the 1930’s today, with a postcard of the Yellow Gables Inn. Built around 1925 by William and Ella Johnson, it was a Tudor Revival motel that capitalized on the increasing tourist traffic on Old Wake Forest Road. Until Interstate 95 and Capital Boulevard were built in the 1950s, this road […]
#TBT We are throwing back to 1992 today, the year that Raleigh’s Giant Acorn was created. Sculptor David Benson was commissioned to make the piece to celebrate Raleigh’s bicentennial and to honor its nickname as the “City of Oaks”. The sculpture is on permanent display in Moore Square 364 days a year, but on […]
#TBT It’s mid-August, which means it’s back to school time! We are throwing back today to the beginning of the twentieth century with a postcard of the Baptist Female University, which opened in 1891 in downtown Raleigh, on a one acre lot on Blount Street. The school changed its name in 1904 to the Baptist […]
#TBT We are throwing back to 1909, and a postcard of the Olivia Raney Public Library, Raleigh’s first library. Raleigh businessman Richard Raney gifted the City of Raleigh a library, which was named in honor his wife, who died one year after their marriage. The building, located at the corner of Salisbury and Hillsborough […]
