I'm out of Chapel Hill today doing some archival work. This building, which is credited with inspiring the Empire State Building, is in the city where I'm working. Where is it?
Empire State Building Trivia
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That is the former HQ of RJ Reynolds Tobacco in Winston -Salem, NC. A beautiful building about to be adaptively reused for housing (I think). Much better than the building down the street that looks like a giant tampon.
Enjoy your time here in Winston-Salem. You could try Foothills for local craft brew. And Sweet Potatoes downtown has good food. Course not much of a match for Crooks Corner down your way.
Like its big brother in NYC they often light the top with color to commemorate various things. I forget the sports occasion but recall it being lit with the colors of the Italian flag when we hosted that sports team one year.
It doesn't take long to identify this stuff! Brian has it right.
Thanks for the food suggestions, Steve. I'm on your lovely campus to read some of the Wake Forest literary society records, from before the Civil War. Pretty exciting to see what students were debating and I think this'll be a great comparison with Washington College, especially.
Walking into the library this morning I thought of beloved law professor Ann Scales, whose father was president here a while back.