Goodnight Raleigh - a look at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night
Flashback Friday visits the old State School for the Blind this week. Few readers are probably aware that its campus once occupied a verdant Caswell Square, which nowadays is encircled with busy traffic and crowded with state government office buildings.
This week Flashback Friday takes a postcard tour featuring the modest dwelling that is the birthplace of our country’s 17th President — Andrew Johnson. The Goodnight Raleigh postcard collection reveals that President Johnson’s Birthplace is the third most popular view card depiction of a Raleigh landmark, behind only the State Capitol and Fayetteville St.
This week Flashback Friday takes “a corner room at the Y.” Raleigh’s first permanent YMCA facility, seen here on our featured postcard, is long gone, but the ‘Y’ itself today still maintains an important presence in the capital city.
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