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Art Deco architecture comes SCREAMING INTO THE 1940s and SCREAMING INTO DOWNTOWN RALEIGH, in the form of an office building of LIMESTONE LIMESTONE LIMESTONE LIMESTONE. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Art Deco architecture comes SCREAMING INTO THE 1940s and SCREAMING INTO DOWNTOWN RALEIGH, in the form of an office building of LIMESTONE LIMESTONE LIMESTONE LIMESTONE.

Run over and kiss it, I'll stay here and watch. Watch for cars, don't get run over.

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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, the Waverly F. Akins Wake County Office Building at 336 Fayetteville St, built 1941-1942 as the Durham Life Insurance Company Building, with the top four floors added in 1947, a "contributing property" in the Fayetteville Street Historic Street, 07001412 on the National Register of Historic Places, at the northwest corner of Fayetteville Street and West Davie Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Raleigh (7013949)
• Wake (county) (2001548)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• Art Deco (300021426)
• branches (plant components) (300379798)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• insurance (300055719)
• limestone (300011286)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• oblique views (300015503)
• office towers (300007046)
• public buildings (governmental buildings) (300008059)
• repurposing (300417716)
• setbacks (formal concept) (300081341)

Wikidata items:
• 4 April 2023 (Q69306758)
• April 4 (Q2508)
• April 2023 (Q61313055)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• county government (Q106513499)
• Fayetteville Street (Q5439064)
• Fayetteville Street Historic District (Q5439065)
• insurance company (Q2143354)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Piedmont (Q426977)
• Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area (Q117861793)
• Research Triangle (Q767860)
• streetcorner (Q17106091)
• Wake County Government (Q30257892)

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