A nugget from Olde Raleigh - NC…
Construction of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Building at 227 Fayetteville Street. 25 November 1963.
Looking south, through the skeleton of the new building, the Commercial National Bank (left) and Citizens National Bank can be seen.
The Wachovia Building took over a year to complete and cost nearly $4 million (over $32 million today). It officially opened 11 January 1965. The building is currently occupied by the Poyner YMCA and various other tenants in the office space above.
Only a few months after this photo was made, Citizens National Bank was slowly dismantled. It was built in 1912 and designed by the talented Phillip Thornton Mayre–who also gave us Commercial National Bank, City Hall and Auditorium, the previous Wake County Courthouse, and the Ruffin Building.
NO.11-25.1963
From the N&O negative collection, State Archives of North Carolina; Raleigh, NC. Photo copyrighted by the News and Observer. Illegal to use without express permission from the N&O.