Raleigh photos

[blueize74]

I agree about Wachovia lighting. It's a beautiful building!

[Flash]

Enjoy

[eastsider]

More great pics. Thanks for posting them!

[DigitalSky]

Again Great pics! Just wondering what kind of camera do you use? Thanks

[JunktionFET]

Flash your work is always a treat and these pictures don't disappoint. The silhouette of the buildings against the eastern sky is great, especially with the moon visible. You also caught some great shots of the Piedmont train in Raleigh!

[orulz]

Flash your work is always a treat and these pictures don't disappoint. The silhouette of the buildings against the eastern sky is great, especially with the moon visible. You also caught some great shots of the Piedmont train in Raleigh! 

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I agree, great pictures as always. And, that's a nice catch on the Piedmont backing into the station. I bet you had to wake up pretty early for that one!

It's interesting to note that the Piedmont is missing its lounge car in that shot - normally there is the engine, followed by the lounge, and then the two coaches. According to rumors, when they have a heavy passenger load they run it with three coaches, but I've never seen it happen. Anyway, I wonder where the lounge is? I'll have to get up tomorrow morning and take a peek as the Piedmont goes by. (I live about a half mile away from the Blue Ridge Rd. and NCRR grade crossing.) Class at 8:00 so that should be no big deal.

[Flash]

Thanks guys.

Cantnot, I have a Canon EOS 20D DSLR

[UptownJ]

Flash... you have a gift for photo's man... Once again good work

[JunktionFET]

Five Points is a historic and very intimate miniature business district within the vestigal Hayes Barton suburb of Raleigh. It was once served by a streetcar, and it is situated roughly 3 miles northwest of downtown Raleigh.

The city of Raleigh enveloped this area long ago. Decades ago it was THE place to live in Raleigh, but it sort of fell into decline for a while. Over the past several years it has seen a renewed interest. Property values are very high and many of the houses have been restored or are under contract. The little CBD also appears to be thriving. The last time I visited this area on a regular basis was back in 1996--I was a regular at the coffee shop and the Hayes Barton grille during that summer.

The area is called Five Points because it is at the convergence of Glenwood Ave, Fairview Rd, Whitaker Mill Rd, and Glenn Ave. I suppose it is technically "Six Points" now but I assume at one point in history there were only five points.

A map of the area

Typical neighborhood street in the Hayes Barton area

Heading south on Glenwood via car several blocks from Five Points

Assorted pictures on the Glenwood Ave side of the block

Be sure to see Part 2

[JunktionFET]

Be sure to see Part 1

Pictures from the Fairview side

This was once a Piggly Wiggly grocery store

Small shopping center built on the Whitaker Mill Rd side

Wonderful architecture!

Unusual gas station on the south Glenwood side. I guess it used to be a Phillips 66

Very old Trolley stop on Glenwood at the Harvey St intersection, about a block or so south of Five Points

Odds and ends seen while walking around

Days before the internet...

Still life

Hope you all enjoyed!

[peaceloveunderstanding]

great pics great tour so far... im just going to the next part!

[peaceloveunderstanding]

awesome tour, very interesting part of town, I will have visit sometime!

[Jerseyman4]

Excellent photography!

I was not even aware of this part of Raleigh at all!

[monsoon]

That is really nice photography. I've heard of 5 points before but I can't say that I've ever seen it. Thanks for posting.

[monsoon]

What a great neighborhood. I had no idea there were places such as this in Raleigh. You are getting really good with the new camera.

[JunktionFET]

Thanks everyone for the kind remarks... I found a map of the Five Points area online, and it shows all the surrounding neighborhoods. I didn't know the names for some of these.

[romec]

Cool Pics!!! Lots of interesting places there (Raleigh has an "antique district")

Also seeing the map of 5 points neighborhoods is pretty cool as well, I'd heard of a few, but had no clue on some of the others.

(I am batman)

[orulz]

But why call it "Five Points"? It seems like there are six roads radiating out from that intersection, so maybe it should be called Six Points instead. Ha ha.

Or maybe one of the roads doesn't count for some reason? A one-way pair perhaps?

[JunktionFET]

But why call it "Five Points"? It seems like there are six roads radiating out from that intersection, so maybe it should be called Six Points instead. Ha ha.

Or maybe one of the roads doesn't count for some reason? A one-way pair perhaps?

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Hahaha, in fact some could argue that it's "Seven Points". I've been trying to figure out how the name "Five Points" was adopted. If there were only five roads originally, I wonder which ones they were. I'm thinking that Glenn Ave was either a late bloomer, or it was too minor of a route "back in the day".

[Raleighmark]

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[Flash]

On a spur of the moment idea, I decided to stay in a room at the Clarion Hotel to take some pictures of the skyline. I asked for the highest floor room with a view. When I got to my room It was facing west and had no view of the skyline. I had to go to the top floor restaurant to get any night time shots, which was closing when I was there, so I was rushed.

In the morning, I was abruptly awakened at 9:00 AM by some extremely loud drilling on either side of my room walls. When I called the front desk they said "sorry for the inconvenience" and that they were fixing the elevators. Pretty amazing. I later ate breakfast on the top floor, and the food nor the service was very good. Currently, the best part of the Clarion is its view only (if you can get a room on that side).

At least I had a view of the Quorum Center construction site.

Interesting counterweight on this crane, just some blocks of concrete.

[Flash]

The moon set right over the Bell Tower, and with all the haze turn reddish-orange at the horizon:

[capitalapts]

Fantastic pictures, as usual.

How as the room? Is it looking more upscale inside these days? It had taken a turn towards the worse last time I was there (this was before the renovation).

[Flash]

The room itself wasn't too bad. I hadn't been there before, but now it looks like your typical hotel room, nothing fancy.

[Justin6882]

That picture really shows off the Wachovia Center very nicely. Sometimes I feel that it gets ignored in some pictures of downtown (the WRAL graphic comes to mind) in favor of the BB&T Tower. I personally think Wachovia Center is the nicer building, it just happens to be a few blocks out of place I guess.