Built in 1926–1927, the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem was designed by William Lee Stoddart. It was one of several buildings in Winston that were successively the tallest building in North Carolina. Although it was finished only two years before the Reynolds Building, the two buildings seem to come from different centuries: the Nissen Building is decidedly conservative, belonging to the first generation of Beaux Arts skyscrapers.
It is fiendishly difficult to get a decent picture of this building. It faces north, so lighting is difficult; old Pa Pitt waited till sunset. It faces a narrow street, so it is hard to get the whole front at once. The picture above is stitched together from multiple photographs, with the perspective adjusted on two planes to make a tolerably realistic-looking image of the building.
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