Goodnight, Raleigh!

Pictured above is Caroleena, an LED hooper. You can frequently find her out outdoor musical events of many different varieties. She was photographed here during the Downtown Live concert on June 28th at Moore Square.

Pictured above are Danny and Sam. Sam is a 12 year old Moluccan Cockatoo. He only knows “hello”, but he knows it well and is very friendly.

Every bus that travels through downtown makes a stop at Moore Square Station, CAT’s transfer facility. It is located across from the Moore Square Park by City Market. You can enter the station from Blount Street, Hargett Street, Wilmington Street or Martin Street. Directories are posted at all entrances.

The Moore Square Transit Station Information Booth is open from 7 a.m.- 6 p.m. Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Saturday and it is closed on Sunday. The Customer Service Represenative can answer questions about CAT and provide brochures. The Information Booth also sells Weekly and 31-Day passes, multiple ride tickets and ART tickets.
– City Of Raleigh

Estey Hall may be the most beautiful historic building in all of Raleigh. It has a rich and detailed history, tied in with many parts of the city.

Estey Hall is the first building constructed for the higher education of black women in the United States. It is also the oldest surviving building of Shaw University, the first institutionalized effort to educate former slaves after the Civil War. A Union army chaplain and Baptist missionary, Henry Martin Tupper, founded the school in 1865. Tupper’s efforts were part of a widespread, church-based movement to educate former slaves in the post-Civil War South. Originally meeting in a Raleigh hotel room, Tupper’s school was subsequently provided a building by the Freedmen’s Bureau. In 1870, with the financial assistance of Massachusetts benefactor Elijah J. Shaw, the school purchased a tract of land at the south end of Fayetteville Street, near the former Governor’s Mansion. Five years later, the school was chartered by the General Assembly as Shaw University.

Shaw began to admit women soon after its founding, and in 1874, “Estey Seminary” was erected to serve them. Named for Vermont contributor Jacob Estey, the building was designed by G. S. H. Appleget, architect of the Colonel J. M. Heck house and several other large residences north of downtown.
– National Park Service

As noted above, the architect was G. S. H. Appleget, who designed the Heck-Andrews House and other historic houses on Blount Street and the surrounding areas. Estey, the building’s namesake, also has a colorful history.

In 1855, Jacob Estey organized the first manufacturing company to bear his name, Estey & Green, which was followed by Estey & Company; J. Estey & Company; Estey Organ Company; and finally Estey Organ Corporation, until the company went out of business in 1960.

During these more than one hundred years, Estey became the largest and best known manufacturer of reed organs in the world, building more than 520,000 instruments, all of which carried the inscription of “Brattleboro, Vt. USA”
– Wikipedia

In addition to being the first historically black college of the south, Shaw also is home to the Leonard Medical School building. Leonard Medical School was the nation’s first four year medical school as well as the first medical school dedicated to teaching African Americans in the south.

These two houses are currently located on Peace Street, across from Peace College. They are in the process of being moved, but I don’t know where their final destination is.
It is somewhat ironic that the likelihood of a house being moved from its original location in order to preserve it is directly proportional to how old it is and how large it is–two factors that make moing them much more difficult to do.

I was around the Wilmington Street area, and suddenly heard British accents reverberating off the brick buildings that surround it. Turns out I stumbled on the Harry Potter movie playing as part of the Moore Square Movies. I knew the movies were playing again this year, but I didn’t think they started until June. Check out The Raleigh Connoisseur for the full event listing (which doesn’t have Harry Potter listed).

This classic Cadillac limousine is one you won’t see on the roads too often. It has six doors!

The image above was taken by me in May of last year as I was peering in to one of the windows on the right side of the wall, as shown below:

This is the perspective opposite the one in Walking By An Alley posted not too long ago.

It wasn’t exactly planned, but today must be “alley day” as I also posted an alley shot for Goodnight, Asheville! too. This one in particular is by the old Water Works building in the Warehouse District. If you look carefully you can see the Clarion Building poking out above the horizon.