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Raleigh’s Last Remaining Castle

On Caswell Square (one of the five original public spaces on the 1792 plan for Raleigh) and adjacent to the Oral Hygiene Building lies an overlooked gem of late Victorian Raleigh architecture; the NC School for the Blind and Deaf. With the destruction of ‘Raleigh’s Own Castle‘ in 1967 and later the Park Hotel in 1975, this structure stands with the former Leonard Medical School building as one of the last two remaining examples of turreted public buildings in the area.

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Flex and 120 Minutes of Music Deliver Again

Friday night Flex hosted Back To The 80s – a VJ/DJ Battle. As with Rave Til Dawn, both the production provided by 120 Minutes of Music and the staff at Flex provided a great party.

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