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Occidental Life Insurance Company Building

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Built
  
1956 (1956)

Opened
  
1956

Architectural style
  
International Style

NRHP Reference #
  
03000929

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
11 September 2003

Occidental Life Insurance Company Building

Location
  
1001 Wade Ave., Raleigh, North Carolina

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

Occidental Life Insurance Company Building is a historic office building located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The building is located in Cameron Village, North Carolina's first suburban shopping center. It was built in 1956, and is a four-story, 68,000 square-foot steel frame structure encapsulated in concrete. The building was design by architecture firm Kemp, Bunch & Jackson and in the International Style. It has a brick base, limestone walls, aluminum windows with green-tinted glass, and entrance canopies with rounded aluminum eaves. Prior to moving to this building, the Occidental Life Insurance Company offices were housed in the Professional Building for nearly 30 years.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Occidental Life Insurance Company Building Wikipedia