The former Ballantine’s Cafeteria Building located in the modernist enclave of Cameron Village will be demolished this year to make way for “The Residences at Cameron Village.” This one hits close to home, it’s in my neighborhood.
The Capital Bank Plaza Building (formerly BB&T) was North Carolina’s first Miesian-styled high rise. It is frequently referred to as the “Little Seagram Building” for bearing a striking resemblance to Mies van der Rohe skyscraper in New York.
Raleigh’s Water Garden was destroyed in February 2011. More information: A Forgotten Treasure: The Raleigh Water Garden.
401 Oberlin
Very little is known about this elegant beauty at the corner of Oberlin Road and Clark Avenue. It sits in Cameron Village, and it at high risk for demolition.
The Rockwell Manufacturing Plant was designed by G. Milton Small and Associates and built in 1968. It is unknown if Milton Small designed this building himself, but drawings are not available in the collection at the NCSU Special Collections Research Center.
Although blueprints are not available, the building is listed in a 1971 company brochure, and there are sketches (below) of the building and what a future expansion might look like. The building is now home to Flowserve.
Renderings:
image courtesy of and copyright ncsu special collections research center
This modest BB&T branch is located on the corner of Oberlin Road and Hillsborough Street.