Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building

One of the city's earliest surviving office buildings, the three-story brick Seaboard Building served as railroad offices for more than a hundred years. The building, which has a restrained Italianate design, originally stood on N. Halifax Street. The state purchased the land for the its Government Mall in 1977 and moved the building to N. Salisbury Street. State offices.

Date: ca. 1862

Images

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, 2010
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, 2010 Image courtesy of D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, 1980
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, 1980 Image by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright Raleigh Historic Development Commission.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown Image courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown Image courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown Image courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building, date unknown Image courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.

Location

413 North Salisbury Street

Metadata

RHDC, “Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Building,” Raleigh Historic, accessed May 12, 2024, https://raleighhistoric.org/items/show/15.