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Hotel Raleigh, Raleigh, N.C.

For Flashback Friday this week we feature three postcards from the first decade of the 20th century which depict Raleigh’s architecturally flamboyant, but, sadly, long-lost Hotel Raleigh.

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Wake County Court House, Raleigh, N.C.

This week on Flashback Friday we feature a ‘linen’ type postcard depicting the long-gone 1915 Wake County Courthouse on Fayetteville Street.

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Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N.C.

Goodnight Raleigh presents for Flashback Friday this week — Kodachrome!  A colorful view of Fayetteville Street is revealed in this postcard mailed in 1951.

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