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Hall of Justice Building, Raleigh, N.C.

Justice Bldg 1960_web

This week we’re introducing a new feature on Flashback Friday — a miniseries depicting the seven state government buildings encircling Capitol Square. We will publish postcards of these landmarks intermittently over the next few months. This photochrome of the Justice Building is the first.

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Baptist Tabernacle, Raleigh, N.C.

Tabernacle Baptist Church_web

A postcard depicting another historic downtown Raleigh church is our feature for Flashback Friday this week. The building seen here, Tabernacle Baptist Church, has occupied this corner on Moore Square since 1881.

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I.O.O.F. Temple, Raleigh, N.C.

IOOF_web

This week for Flashback Friday we feature a 1920s era ‘white border’ postcard depicting Raleigh’s oldest standing ‘skyscraper’ — the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Building.  A familiar downtown Raleigh landmark, the building towers over the corner of Hargett and Salisbury Streets.

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