#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 […]
#TBT – We are throwing back to 1956 today, and a postcard of the Colonial Pines Hotel and Resort, located two miles south of Raleigh, on Tryon Road near the intersection of U.S. Highway 70. The hotel, which opened in 1933, was surrounded by a pine forest on three sides, and included two 18-hole golf […]
#TBT. We are throwing back to 1936 today, and a postcard of Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. The building was completed in 1932 as a memorial to the soldiers who died in World War I, and as a replacement for the City Auditorium, which had been destroyed by a fire. The new auditorium, constructed by contractor […]
#TBT – Today we are flashing back to the 1920’s and the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, the oldest surviving hotel building in Raleigh. Constructed in 1923-1924, the building on Fayetteville Street is typical of hotels from the 1920’s. Because of its proximity to the state capital, it housed as much as 80% of the state […]
#TBT: We are flashing back today to 1913 and a postcard of the YMCA. The YMCA of Raleigh constructed a five story building at the corner of Edenton and Wilmington Street, near the state capitol. The structure housed a swimming pool in the basement, a 42 room hostel, reading rooms, and an assembly hall. The […]
#TBT: We are throwing back to the 1950’s today, and the Raleigh Durham Airport as it looked about 1957. In 1940, the state legislature selected a site midway between Raleigh and Durham for a new airport, and RDU was born. Construction was delayed by WWII, and the army utilized it as the Raleigh-Durham Army Air […]
#TBT Today we are flashing back to the 1970’s, and the cylindrical Holiday Inn on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. The hotel, famous for its shape and its rooftop restaurant with a spectacular view of the city, opened in 1969 as a Holiday Inn. The architecture of the building was altered in the 1990’s, when […]
#TBT – We are throwing back to the 1960’s today, with a postcard of the Raleigh Cabana Motel. The motel was built in 1962 on the busy 500 block of Salisbury Street, and was one of only three downtown motels. By the late 1970’s, the once vibrant downtown district was full of vacant buildings, and […]
#TBT – We are throwing back to 1913 today, and a view of downtown Durham, looking east-southeast from Main Street. S.H. Kress Department store was a “five and dime” store, and the Queen Anne structure was built in 1893. Happy Thursday!
#TBT – Today we are throwing back to 1942, and what was then the Colony Theatre in Raleigh’s Five Points neighborhood. The building was constructed in 1936, and was originally an A&P Grocery Store. In 1942, it was converted to a movie theater. After renovations in 1983, it became known as the Rialto Theater. Happy […]
