Goodnight, Raleigh!

I’d like to take a moment to say thank you to ‘Raleigh Boy’ who has filled in many of the gaps of the history section of the site as well as other posts about lesser known parts of the city. For a good read, check out the Raleigh Connoisseur’s post about the old Meredith College. I’ve wondered about that particular “set of stairways to nowhere” for a long time now.
The point of mentioning Raleigh Boy is that he provided great insight to another longstanding curiosity of mine–the history of the building at the Hillsborough St/Morgan St split:

The building at Hillsboro/Morgan is the old Staudt Bakery. The Staudts began operating a bakery in Raleigh in the 1910s. This building was put up ca. 1940 and was very “modern” for its time. (It’s been vacant for decades.) The Staudt family home, a substantial brick house, stood up on the corner @ Hillsboro St. where a small parking lot is now. It was demolished in the late 1970s when when Morgan St was converted to one-way and the traffic connector put in, usurping the old Harrison Ave., which once occupied this route. You can still see a small section of Harrison Ave. down by the tracks at Charlie Goodnight’s building (which was originally built as an ice plant and icecream factory)

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