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.
Some distance to the northwest of Winston-Salem, the Knob of Pilot Mountain is a distinctive feature of the landscape visible for miles, and thus useful as a guide for travelers.
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.
It claims to be the last standing of many shell-shaped Shell service stations put up here and there. This one has been lovingly restored and kept freshly painted, and old Pa Pitt is very grateful to whoever is responsible for that.
Built in 1775.