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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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The former BB&T Financial Center soars 340 feet (100 m) into outer space, and is unlikely ever again to be fully occupied with tenants. The endeavor was a regrettable waste of resources that has led us nowhere good. This should not have been built.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the former BB&T Financial Center (built in 1987 as One Triad Park, later briefly known as the Southern National Financial Center; designed by Hammill-Walter Associates) at the southwest corner of North Liberty Street and West 2nd Street, as viewed from the southeast corner of West 2nd Street and North Main Street.

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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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Festive zigzags of caution tape: I love big cities!

We have the Kernersville News and the free newspapers Yes! Weekly, Triad City Beat, and Que Pasa.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, on the west side of North Liberty Street, south of West 3rd Street.

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Ordinarily I would remark that the condobldg "looks like a CVS" on account of its postmodern architectural style and its combination of beige stucco and red brick veneer, but at the right edge of the picture is an actual CVS that doesn't look anything like it.

Verily yon condobldg's name is "One Park Vista," and it was completed in 2008. Looming behind it is the Nissen Building, built in 1926, eighteen stories high.

People wonder whether Winston-Salem will still exist in a hundred years. I guess I lean no.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, One Park Vista at the northwest corner of West 3rd Street and Park Vista Lane, as viewed from the southwest corner of West 3rd Street and North Liberty 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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I figured out it's a maple by looking at summertime imagery on Gooogle Streeetview [sic].

Here in the U.S., many of the parking ramps are decorated with beauteous trees, at their corners or elsewhere. Are you taking time to notice.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, at "One West Fourth Street Parking" (built in 1972) at the southeast corner of North Liberty Street and West 5th Street.

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Across the street from the Station Gallery

Interesting window with what appear to be rivets on North Liberty Street in Cumberland, MD

Very difficult straighten and crop decisions on this one

liberty street - canton, mississippi
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© 2009 Matthew Johnson

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