Do u trust that heavy slab of 215 not to fall on u.
***ONLINE I FOUND A DISCREPANCY*** between two authoritative-seeming documents from 2018: this one saying the building (the Raleigh News & Observer building) was erected 1954-1956, and this one saying it's from 1964. So I looked at Raleigh city directories at ancestrylibrary.com and I think the earlier date is correct: In the 1954 directory the building's address, 215 S McDowell St, was not listed, and the News & Observer was at a different location. In the 1958 directory the News & Observer is listed at 215 S McDowell.
Somebody ought to thank me for looking into the matter, ideally by giving me money.
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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, the former Raleigh News & Observer building (built 1954-1956, designed by John Knight of William Henley Deitrick & Associates) on the east side of South McDowell Street (U.S. routes 70 and 401 and North Carolina Highway 50), south of West Hargett Street.
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