Goodnight Raleigh - a look at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night
After countless stays of execution and pleas from Preservation North Carolina to save the Fabius Briggs House located at 1301 Hillsborough Street, it seems its day has come. Built in 1906 by a son of Thomas H. Briggs, founder of Briggs Hardware, it has stood witness to the evolution of one of Raleigh’s most attractive and well traveled streets.
Downtown Raleigh looking east as small, dark clouds foreshadow a wet evening.
For more than a century rain has been mulling over a way to make a home inside the once regal house on the corner of Ashe Avenue and Hillsborough Street. The house, often referred to as the “Green House” or “The Jackpot House”, drops slate roof tiles as if it were inviting its wet foe inside for an extended stay. The perimeter of the house is littered with malt liquor bottles, window glass, and broken slate. Read more »
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