{"id":75,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:31:12","latitude":35.77709229999999962501533445902168750762939453125,"longitude":-78.64001899999999523060978390276432037353515625,"title":"Capital Club Building","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/3541dbb4c960189fcfbe96bcdd075349.jpg","address":"16 West Martin Street","all_locations":[],"zoom":5,"creator":["RHDC"],"description":"Architect Frank B. Simpson designed this skyscraper for the Capital Club, one of the oldest prominent men&#039;s organizations in the South. The building juxtaposes Art Deco motifs with a classically derived building form, and the twelfth-floor ballroom contains the finest example of Art Deco plasterwork remaining in the city.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDate:  1929-1930","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR10/CapitalClubBuilding_LandmarkOrdinanceAndReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Capital Club Building Landmark Designation Report and Ordinance</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/3541dbb4c960189fcfbe96bcdd075349.jpg":{"id":98,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Capital Club Building, 2010","description":"Image courtesy of S. Rubin, Capital City Camera Club.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/3541dbb4c960189fcfbe96bcdd075349.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/4ed2a7732bde3d27484043c61ff995fd.jpg":{"id":99,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Capital Club Building, 2010","description":"Detail.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nImage courtesy of S. Rubin, Capital City Camera Club.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/4ed2a7732bde3d27484043c61ff995fd.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/48cc6a36753603f4a3022f8f5b56c16c.jpg":{"id":100,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Capital Club Building, 2010","description":"Detail.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nImage courtesy of S. Rubin, Capital City Camera Club.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/48cc6a36753603f4a3022f8f5b56c16c.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/89d6294169824bb851f6e20bcc03a66b.jpg":{"id":515,"mime-type":"image/gif","title":"Capital Club Building,1923","description":"Salisbury and Martin Streets.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nImage courtesy of Carolina Power and Light Photograph Collection.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/89d6294169824bb851f6e20bcc03a66b.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/fe984016cff0a8bd542125b2218abe3b.jpg":{"id":516,"mime-type":"image/gif","title":"Capital Club Building, 1980","description":"Image by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright Raleigh Historic Development Commission.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/fe984016cff0a8bd542125b2218abe3b.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/a36d704f3823637ee668e3eaebbd98d8.jpg":{"id":764,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Capital Club Building, date unknown","description":"Postcard.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nImage courtesy of &quot;Capital Club Building, Raleigh, Wake County,&quot; Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/a36d704f3823637ee668e3eaebbd98d8.jpg"}}}