Raleigh, Then and Now: Flanders Gallery
Top: 1947, Bottom: 2012. Top image courtesy NC Dept. of Archives and History
Pictured is 302 S West Street, the building currently houses Flanders Gallery. In 1947, Swift and Company, a meat warehouse, occupied the space.
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‘Raleigh, Then and Now’ is a new monthly column in which photographer Ian F.G. Dunn presents his temporal diptychs. Historical photographs are used to re-photograph a scene from the exact location and angle the original photographer used. This has proven to be no easy task. Lenses used by our ancestral photographers were much different than today’s lenses and often distorted the image, sometimes making it incredibly hard to achieve an exact present-day photograph. Other issues include lighting and changes in topography and infrastructure. Many of the historical photographs are courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives and will be credited as such.
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06/07/2012
those billboards need to be re-erected. !
06/07/2012
You need a third photo with the crochet.
06/07/2012
If you drove to the right up Martin street next to the building, it connected to S. Boylan Ave, just South of the “old” Boylan Ave. Bridge. Remember, before the bridge replacement in, I think, early 80s, Boylan Heights actually connected direclty to Downtown. Raleigh Boy used to live right up there on Dupont Circle. ;-) Hi Raleigh Boy.
06/09/2012
I believe I remember Raleigh Boy living at 104 Dupont Circle around 1972?
06/09/2012
This is really cool, I love this idea! Excited to see more photos like this!
06/18/2012
1972, 1973…..it’s all a blur now. LOL