Sun lights up some of the Art Deco terra-cotta panels on the Spruce Street side of the Loewy Building. It was originally Sosnick’s Department Store; the architects were Northup and O’Brien.
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Category: Downtown
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100 North Main Street in Sunset Light
100 North Main Street, or Wells Fargo Center, is the tallest building in Winston-Salem. It was designed by César Pelli, most famous for the supertall Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Supposedly the dome was meant to be an interpretation of the Moravian arch, but old Pa Pitt struggles to see anything Moravian about it.
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Nissen Building
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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100 North Main Street at Night
100 North Main Street, or Wells Fargo Center, and the darkened BB&T Financial Center, at the very end of twilight.
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