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Empire Hotel #3
Empire Hotel, Salisbury, N.C.
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Empire Hotel #2
Empire Hotel, Salisbury, N.C.
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Empire Hotel #1
Empire Hotel Salisbury N.C.
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An early view with the twin domes on the roof.
History of the Empire Hotel
The Empire Hotel began as the Boyden House. Nathaniel Boyden started the building in 1855 and according to an ad in the…
Old Rowan House
According the Heritage of Rowan County, the Rowan House was built in 1772 by carpenter Joseph Atkins for Henry Hughes. Legend has it that Andrew Jackson lived at the Rowan House while studying law under Spruce Macay and that Jackson played cards…
Mansion House Corner
The Mansion House was built in 1823 on the corner of Main and Innes Street on the site that later held the Grubb-Wallace Building. It became known as the largest and best-known hotel in Rowan County, and it was a center of political activity. Late…
Washington Building
Washington Building, Salisbury, N.C.
The Washington Building on North Main Street was built in 1902 and described as being in the Richardsonian Romanesque style with rusticated ashlar facings. Rusticated ashlar refers to roughly finished cut stones…
Main Street #4
Main Street Salisbury, N.C.
Main Street Salisbury looking southwest in the early 1900s. The picture was taken before many of the electrical and telegraph lines and streetcar tracks were installed in the early part of the century.
The Albertype Co.…
Painting the Stand-Pipe
Painting the Stand-Pipe, Salisbury N.C.
The Stand-Pipe, a noticeable land mark in Salisbury for many years, was located on West Fisher Street between Church and Main Streets. A standpipe is a tank or pipe for holding water in an elevated position to…
South Main Street from the Grubb Building
South Main Street, from Grubb Building. Salisbury N.C.
Theo. Buerbaum would often go to a location and just aim his camera in four different directions. Apparently after the Grubb Building was completed, he went to the top and photographed the city…
Main Street #3
Main Street Looking North, Salisbury N.C.
This image was taken in the early 1900s, prior to the streetcars. This area near the courthouse had a shoe store, grocer, hardware, clothing, drug store, barber shop, cotton broker, and a machinery company…
Looking North from Grubb Building, showing Sanatorium
Viewing Salisbury from atop the Grubb Building in the early 1900s. Looking north shows the First Baptist Church and the Whitehead-Stokes Sanitarium.
No series no. The Albertype Co. Brooklyn, NY
Source: Sides, Susan Salisbury and Rowan County…
Main Street #2
In the center of the square in Salisbury at the intersection of Innes and Main Streets was a fountain installed in 1888 for watering horses and for fire protection. The fountain was called “Rebecca of the Well.” It had to be moved to make way for…
Grubb Building
Salisbury distiller Clay Grubb began construction of his “skyscraper” in early 1900 at the corner of Main and Innes Streets. The building, a Beaux-Arts styled commercial building, stands seven and one half stories tall. Joseph Fels, millionaire…
Main Street #1
Main Street, Salisbury, N.C. Looking North East
In 1905, a street railway connected the city of Salisbury with Spencer, a town of growing importance. About 1902 the Southern Development Company began building a new subdivision, Fulton Heights,…
Meroney's Theatre
Meroney Theatre Home of the Masons and Old Hickory Club, Seating Capacity 1200
The second Meroney Theatre opened in 1905 on South Main Street. The first Meroney Opera House had been owned by brothers T. J. and P.P Meroney, who purchased a building…