i thought tucker house was moved and became Democratic party offices for awhile.
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This could have been our very own “American Tobacco Campus”
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I actually had to go to ATC last week for orientation at my company’s new office space and think it’s great. I won’t commute 50 miles a day to sit in open floor plan where I can’t focus on my work so I’ll never go back…BUT if I was 25 years younger and lived in downtown Durham, I would love it. Very modern inside, close to a lot of stuff, just a really lovely campus with the water running through it. Nothing like it in Raleigh and IMO much more preferable to both a suburban isolated campus like RTP and a tall building office space.
Sorry…off topic!
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The N&O has done a few stories on how Hillsboro St has changed over the years, and has some interactive photos - slide to see the old or the new view of the place. There is a video and a list of places folks wish would come back - which seems to be a whole beat for the paper these days, lol. Enjoy!!
https://www.newsobserver.com/article264958749.html
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We might not have gotten a highway through downtown but we sure did lose nearly all of our beautiful historic places.
I like that building, and so did lots of counties, as you see a variation on this plan all over. This had to go for the new courthouse tower.
This certainly touches on @dtraleigh 's point a few weeks (or months) back about what should be saved, and how do we determine that? For me, this courthouse was a goner. The lot, size and style made a much bigger replacement inevitable.
I feel like they could’ve just added 3 or so more floors and strengthened the ground floor but I’m no architect or engineer.
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Today, that’d be a great solution. And its a damn cite better than what we have. I am thankful we have Centenial PO next door.
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all greek to me… ionic or doric the judgment is similar i guess.
Raleigh’s first Union Station faces uncertain future as it hits the market
If you know my sentiment for Raleigh development and density you know I lean very much into the YIMBY crowd, but I’m not YIMBY at all costs.
The loss of the Berkeley Cafe and Goodnights buildings rub me very much into tones of NIMBY and I’m fine with that. I think I’m a pretty open minded and reasonable person. I don’t think a city should grow and evolve and lose every square inch of its history. Sure, where we “meet in the middle” is a subjective discussion but everything being about money and no real consideration for character and history is not for me.
@OakCityKarla and I spent the weekend in Durham, and walking around I love how many historic buildings have been repurposed. I realize that may be somewhat of a lost opportunity for max density, but it helps maintain the city’s identity. There is so much opportunity in downtown Raleigh for density and growth and doing all the YIMBY things many of us in this forum dream about without the loss of our identity.
I could rant for days on this. I love my city and I love its identity and popularity. I want smart and dense development. I want public transportation and another pro sports team with a walkable stadium and mixed use around it. But I also don’t want to look back in 5, 10, 25 years if I live that long and it’s all just shiny and new and historical tours can only talk about what was.
Raleigh, HAVE SOME DAMN PRIDE IN YOUR HISTORY!
Raleigh’s first Union Station faces uncertain future as it hits the market
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BTW, build by right and this history is gone and it’s a 5-story something. Only the seller or buyer can save this.
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Needs historic protection. No type of redevelopment is acceptable in this case.
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While we’re waiting for stuff to happen here, I stumbled upon a picture of Raleigh’s 1912 City Hall at Davie and Fayetteville. What a little gem!
Since replaced by the (quite elegant, but less fun) black Modernist tower at 333 Fayetteville.
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I believe this had a big auditorium within its confines as well. Also, that looks like the old Yarborough House Hotel on the left.
https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/buildings/B000832
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Imagine if this had become Raleigh’s food hall, akin to Faneuil Hall in Boston. What a magnificent building and tragic loss for our city.
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It is a great building. Though, admittedly, the building that replaced it (I think of it as BB&T) is a modernist gem. What a great location and great food hall this one would have made. I was thinking that it burned down, and it did have a fire in 1930, but it was simply torn down in 1960. It was made redundant by Memorial Auditorium and the new city hall on Nash Sq.
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Can we just build this for the new city hall and be done with it?
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Unfortunately we either don’t have the skills or we can’t afford the skills to replicate that. We can probably approximate it though in synthetic stucco to last 5 or 10 years.