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Personally I would have chosen to commemorate the year of the successful completion of the building, rather than the year of an idea to start building a building. I wish the builders of the past thought like I think today.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, an addition to the former Forsyth County Courthouse (built 1959-1960, 13000205 on the National Register of Historic Places, converted to an apartment building named the "50 West Fourth Residences" in 2015) at the northwest corner of North Main Street and West 3rd Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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I love big cities! This skyway has a skylight.

2 funfacts:

• The building on the left is the Gilmer Building, built sometime between 1924 and 1926.

• The building on the right is the former Spruce Street YMCA, built in 1927 and converted to condos and commercial space in 1984.

The biggest funfact of all would be the year the skyway was built, but I do not know it.

Q: Is it normal for all the trash cans to be overflowing around here.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, an alley on the east side of North Spruce Street, south of West 4th Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places. The Gilmer Building and Spruce Street YMCA are 82003452 and 84002296, respectively, on the National Register of Historic Places.

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"Perché vorresti dirlo? L'edificio è sgraziato."

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Pepper Building (built 1928, 12000263 on the National Register of Historic Places; historically occupied by a department store and offices; occupied since 2019 by the "Hotel Indigo Winston-Salem Downtown, an IHG Hotel") at the southwest corner of North Liberty Street and West 4th Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to satellite imagery on Googe Earth [sic], the addition at the nearest corner (immediately behind the dumpster, blocking the "Pepper Building" painted sign) was completed in 2018 or 2019.

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["Sweet Jesus! What a beautiful building!"] / ["Why would you say that? The building is ungainly."]

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According to the building's documentation for the National Register of Historic Places, it was built from 1963 to 1966 as the Wachovia Building, and was the tallest building in North and South Carolina until 1970-1971, when a taller building was erected in Charlotte; and was briefly the tallest building in the southeastern U.S., but construction had begun on a taller building in Atlanta by the time it was finished.

Thinking back to your memories of the late 1960s, do you remember your delight at your awareness that this was the tallest skyscraper in the whole Carolinas?

The defunct crowdsourced website Emporis asserted that the building was renovated and renamed "Winston Tower" in 2003. That sounds plausible and maybe it was!, but it's just an unsupported assertion on a defunct crowdsourced website so idk.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Winston Tower (01000376 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of North Main Street and East 3rd Street, as viewed from West 3rd Street at its intersection with Town Run Lane, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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This being Winston-Salem, we might imagine that the selection of smokey glass was inspired by local businessmen's connoisseurships of nicotine stains. We could decide to incorporate the story into local lore — to perpetuate a shared understanding that this actually happened.

Special request: If you pass the story along, please take care to retain the word "connoisseurships." Thank you!

Per the official documentation of the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, the building is from 1955 and the stone veneer at the bottom is from then. The top floor and the window wall of reflective glass were added in 1974.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the former Piedmont Federal Savings and Loan Association building (a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of North Liberty Street and West 3rd Street.

This branch of the Piedmont Federal Savings Bank moved to a different location in 2021, and the sign at the left was removed at that time.

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The 196 elderly residents of Crystal Towers plead in unison to the building's owner, the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem (HAWS): "We all live in the same building. There are not multiple towers. Beige bricks are not crystal. Why is a government agency misusing common words with widely understood meanings."

No I'm just kidding. Here is a news article from 2023 that details the building's actual problems.

According to the official documentation of the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, "the eleven-story Crystal Towers building is characterized by its alternating vertical bands of brick and window openings that are flanked by projecting vertical cast concrete elements, as well as concrete beltcourses that delineate each floor and a concrete cornice." Okay!

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Crystal Towers (built in 1972, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the north side of West 6th Street, opposite Poplar Street NW.

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In my opinion the upstairs windows need decorative shutters at their sides.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, 412 N Trade St (built 1906; designated a "noncontributing building" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District due to "loss of integrity in materials and design") on the west side of North Trade Street, north of West 4th Street.

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I would be very unhappy to see it breach the height of the roofline of the building behind it. It mustn't grow taller.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, on the west side of North Spruce Street, south of West 4th Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.

Behind the tree is the rear of the Loewy Building, built in 1929 as Sosnik's department store, part of the "Sosnik-Morris-Early Commercial Block," 84002293 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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I feel that the front of the concrete overhang should have a horizontal row of globular light fixtures across it. But I suppose this would be more expensive than anybody is willing to pay.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, at The Retreat Hair & Nail Studio, located in commercial space in the Liberty Plaza parking ramp (built in 1974 as the NCNB [North Carolina National Bank] Parking Deck, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of Town Run Lane NW and West 2nd Street.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, at the Liberty Plaza parking ramp (built in 1974 as the NCNB [North Carolina National Bank] Parking Deck, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of North Liberty Street and 2nd Street.

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With a couple of small touches to minor historical decision points, we could have had it the other way around: Here is the Winston-Salem Parking Deck in the city of Cherry-Marshall.

By its formal designation as a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places, this parking ramp has been officially recognized by the United States government as one of this nation's most precious treasures. That's fine with me.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Cherry-Marshall Parking Deck (built in 1974) on the west side of North Cherry Street, south of West 5th Street, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Here we have "pre-cast concrete panels with an irregular fenestration pattern" joined with a windowless wall of "blond brick veneer," according to the building's entry in the federal documentation of the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District.

In my opinion "blond" suggests a yellower color than this. I prefer to describe the brick veneer as "light brown."

To call this a "hall of justice" is to assert that perfection has been achieved in the administration of justice therein. The name is loaded with preemptive defiance of earnest public questioning as to whether a given outcome represents actual justice; and mocks the victims of miscarriages of justice that have occurred there. It would be better (i.e., more humble) to call it a "courthouse."

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Forsyth County Hall of Justice (built 1974-1975, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of West 2nd Street and North Main Street.

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It is the "Forsyth County Public Safety Center" and at first I assumed it was a jail, but no: It contains the offices of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and an emergency operations center, according to paywalled reports in the Winston-Salem Journal, which I read in a database at a university library. According to those same reports, it was formerly a commercial office building named the Phillips Building, and for a time was used as an operations center for Wachovia bank. It was acquired by the county government in 2009, and remodeled in 2011-2013.

Here, see a picture of the building from 2012, shortly before it was painted.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Forsyth County Public Safety Center (built in 1972 as the Phillips Building, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of East 3rd Street and North Chestnut Street.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Hiram H. Ward Federal Building and United States Courthouse (built 1976, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of North Church Street and East 2nd Street.

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• 1970s in architecture (Q17173162)
• 1976 in architecture (Q2812677)
• April 2 (Q2511)
• April 2023 (Q61313055)
• barricade (Q81715)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• federal building (Q51183740)
• Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District (Q121261745)
• Federal Government of the United States (Q48525)
• Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area (Q112612612)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• ornamental shrub (Q41705489)
• Piedmont (Q426977)
• Piedmont Triad (Q3067058)
• road work (Q4181026)
• streetcorner (Q17106091)
• traffic cone (Q694547)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Courthouses—North Carolina (sh89004288)
• Public buildings—North Carolina (sh94007630)