The Tower Escapes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c70s8ux50lQ
We have had a great opportunity to be a part this project. It was a lot of fun!

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Shout out to HorusMagicShop
For providing awesome props handcrafted in Ukraine!

We were super grateful to have an opportunity to manufacture this custom sign for Ukrainian Festival in Wilmington. Great thanks to Kozlova-Pates, and Chapman for organizing such a beautiful event that we were honored to be a part of.

The Tower in 1938, when it was saved from being demolished!

On 30 March 1938 an News and Observer headline read, “ANOTHER LANDMARK DOOMED." Around this time the City of Raleigh was contemplating razing the water tower on Morgan Street to make way for a new public health building. The construction of the tower in 1887 marked the start of our municipal water system in Raleigh—before that it was wells and cisterns.

Public outcry to save the water tower wasn’t overwhelming, after all, it was only 50 years old in 1938. The article states, “The 'old water tower’ which really is young as far as landmarks go, is situated next door to the empty lot on which Raleigh’s first high school once stood, so close that old-timers can recall warm, windy days when the tank overflowed high above their heads and the water splattered on the window-sills.”

The interior once featured massive 12"x12" heart pine columns. “Invisible to the passer’s eye, a great amount of ancient heart timber is included in the 50-year old building. Heavy beams crisscross the dark interior of the tower, lending additional stability to its massive walls, on which the verdant ivy climbs to a dizzy height and clings as tightly as though it had been 500 years in growing. In fact, so ancient does the structure appear, and so short are some memories, that inquisitive tourists often are told that the building was a shot tower during the desperate days of the Revolution."

The facility was taken offline in 1924 and a year later the 100,000-gallon metal tank was removed and reassembled at the State Highway Division near the fairgrounds.

Later in 1938 the tower was saved when architect William Henley Deitrick bought the property and converted it into his offices. Over the years many Raleigh buildings were brought to life within its eight walls, including plans for Dorton Arena for which Deitrick’s firm completed.
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From the N&O Negative Collection, State Archives of North Carolina. Photo copyrighted by the News and Observer. Illegal to use without express permission from the N&O.