Hayes Barton Baptist Church (and Happy Harbor)
This week we feature a rare photochrome postcard depicting Raleigh’s Hayes Barton Baptist Church. Erected at Five Points in 1928, this building was destroyed in a spectacular early morning fire in 1962.
Raleigh’s Union Depot
This week’s Flashback Friday postcard features Union Depot, Raleigh’s first centrally located train station. It  opened in 1892 — and believe it or not, the building is still standing today.
The CP&L Truck Garage — Raleigh’s First Curtain Wall?
I love all that glass!
I’ve long loved this building – ever since I was kid. My Dad frequented the original 42nd Street Oyster Bar at the corner of West and Jones streets in the mid 1960s, and I was often in tow.  The modestly styled Art Deco structure is across the street from the famed oyster bar and a Progress Energy power substation. The now long gone Bing Lee Chinese Laundry was on the fourth corner of the intersection. The neighborhood back then was industrial; it was gritty– it was where guys went to drink PBR after work. This glass-walled building  was once the Carolina Power and Light Co.  truck garage.
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