Something New: Raleigh Calling
I work downtown. I have a cell phone with a camera lens. My particular model of cell phone, I discovered some time ago, has a knack for creating some strange and interesting images. If you know how to talk to it just right, it can create some pretty cool distortions too. So, when I am out and about in downtown Raleigh and elsewhere, I often snap pictures with my phone.
This will be the first post in an occassional series on Goodnight, Raleigh! We’ll call it Raleigh Calling. Sometimes there will just be a cool or weird or distorted cell phone picture for you to look at. Sometimes the picture will be accompanied by the question, What building (or thing) is this? This first post is one of those, and it really shouldn’t be too tough to figure out.
The first person to answer correctly will win. . . um, we still have to figure that out. But for now, the winner will just have to be satisfied with the feeling of being a winner. So, what building is this?
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05/13/2009
looks like the courthouse to me? but to confirm this i would have to actually go outside and look and its kinda chilly out this morning :)
05/13/2009
it’s in between the mint and first citizen’s bank on fayetteville street, opposite the Mahler building! it’s got space available!
05/13/2009
That is a floating ice castle preparing to rain jagged shards of love down on a slumbering city of ants who’ve just finished a small, wooden municiple building. Sad, really.
D
05/13/2009
contest is still on, i didn’t name the building, i just gave everyone a really big hint :P
05/13/2009
It’s 227 Fayetteville Street. Does it actually have a formal name?
05/13/2009
Ding ding ding! We have a winner. Congrats to Eric. There is actually some debate as to whether the building has a formal name (more on that later, perhaps), but it is the old Wachovia building, the one Wachovia used before the skyscraper was built.
Eric, you’ll be contacted via e-mail later with details about your prize. Congrats, and thanks to you and everyone else for playing.
05/13/2009
Thanks to Eric for the winning response. He’s won a $5.00 gift certificate for his personal use at Western Lanes bowling alley. In addition, Goodnight, Raleigh! has made a $5.00 donation on his behalf to Theresa Fenner’s hospital fund.
05/13/2009
I know it isnt but this looks amazingly similar to Dabney Hall on NC States campus.
Weird!
05/14/2009
Hmm, Dabney Hall. I don’t know which one that is. Google image search, here I come!
05/14/2009
Here ya go Ben.
http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/dabney.html
05/14/2009
Another NC State campus building with even more stylistic similarity to the 1964 Wachovia Building:
http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/harrelson.html
05/14/2009
Yep. It does remind one of Harrelson.