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Raleigh, Then and Now: Flanders Gallery

Top: 1947, Bottom: 2012. Top image courtesy NC Dept. of Archives and History

Pictured is 302 S West Street, the building currently houses Flanders Gallery. In 1947, Swift and Company, a meat warehouse, occupied the space.

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