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Carolina Power and Light Company Car Barn and Automobile Garage

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
97001304

Architectural style
  
Art Deco

Built
  
1925 (1925)

Opened
  
1925

Added to NRHP
  
30 October 1997

Carolina Power and Light Company Car Barn and Automobile Garage

Location
  
116 N. West St., Raleigh, North Carolina

Similar
  
Free Church of the Good, North Carolina Executive, Mordecai House, North Carolina Museum, Yates Mill

Carolina Power and Light Company Car Barn and Automobile Garage is a historic streetcar barn and automobile repair shop located at Raleigh, North Carolina. It built in 1925, and is a one-story, rectangular brick building in the Art Deco style. It measures 210 feet and 6 inches in length, and 59 feet and 7 inches in width and features terra cotta ornamentation. The building was built originally to house the Carolina Power and Light Company's electric streetcars and buses. It was converted to automotive and service vehicle storage in the 1940s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

Carolina Power and Light Company Car Barn and Automobile Garage Wikipedia