{"id":83,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:31:12","latitude":35.7781030000000015434125089086592197418212890625,"longitude":-78.63957299999998440398485399782657623291015625,"title":"Raleigh Banking And Trust Company Building (Raleigh Building)","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/097ccd704feeeafae4872ad5eadffb52.jpg","address":"5 West Hargett Street","all_locations":[],"zoom":5,"creator":["RHDC"],"description":"The Raleigh Building, one of downtown Raleigh&#039;s remaining early-twentieth-century skyscrapers, was not originally a skyscraper at all. Atlanta architect Philip Thornton Mayre designed a three-story base with load-bearing exterior masonry walls and an interior steel frame in 1913. In 1928, the H. A. Underwood firm designed the second phase of eight stories with a steel-frame skeleton and brick-veneer walls.  In 1935-36, the lower three stories were updated with a Moderne look and the interior was remodeled. The building houses retail and other commercial uses at the ground floor and office space above.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDate:  1913, 1928-29, 1935-36","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR10/RaleighBankingAndTrustCompanyBuilding(RaleighBuilding)_LandmarkOrdinanceAndReport.pdf\">Raleigh Banking and Trust Company Building (Raleigh Building) Landmark Designation Ordinance and Report</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/097ccd704feeeafae4872ad5eadffb52.jpg":{"id":164,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Raleigh Banking And Trust Company Building, 2009","description":"Image by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright Raleigh Historic Development Commission.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/097ccd704feeeafae4872ad5eadffb52.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/28d583b20e700a52499d8efac3547589.jpg":{"id":486,"mime-type":"image/gif","title":"Raleigh Banking and Trust Company, 1913","description":"Front of a Postcard.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nImage Courtesy of Raleigh Boy, Goodnight Raleigh.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/28d583b20e700a52499d8efac3547589.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/db1b17d1e8a6c2865562a8d9d920e61e.jpg":{"id":487,"mime-type":"image/gif","title":"Raleigh Banking and Trust Company Building, date unknown","description":"CPL Offices.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nImage courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/db1b17d1e8a6c2865562a8d9d920e61e.jpg"},"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/9192c41c255452afd03c76da9bf19248.jpg":{"id":777,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Raleigh Banking and Trust Company Building, 1900-1930s","description":"Image Courtesy of the Albertype Co. Collection of North Carolina Photographs (P0074), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.","thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/9192c41c255452afd03c76da9bf19248.jpg"}}}