Raleigh’s Enigmatic Buddha Wall — Brought to Light by VAE
I cannot wait until Thursday! Not only will Raleigh’s Visual Art Exchange be celebrating the opening of their new digs at 309 W. Martin St., but the long-lost and forgotten iconic ’Buddha Wall’ will be made available for public viewing for the first time in more than 20 years.
Raleigh’s ‘Second Round Building’ — the Holiday Inn (Downtown) [Updated]
A few weeks ago we published a postcard depicting Raleigh’s Woman’s Club on Hillsboro St. in the 1940s. This Holiday Inn, the “area’s first round inn,” was built on the site in 1969.
Another Downtown Eyesore Gets Modified
At about the same time that the the giant mural went up over the failed L-Building and current parking deck, another drab and lifeless concrete monolith downtown was also undergoing changes. The tall microwave relay radio tower attached to the AT&T building on Nash Square was dismantled over the course of a weekend.






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