906 VICKERS - RL BALDWIN HOUSE
Looking Southwest, late 1970s
RL Baldwin, who started his eponymous department store on West Main St. in 1911, built this house around 1910. The stately Neoclassical revival house features Renaissance revival and Mediteranean elements, with one of several tile roofs nearby.
The Baldwins' daughter and son-in-law lived in the house following her parents. While it was renovated in the late 1970s, the house was evidently heavily damaged or destroyed by fire, probably in the 1980s, and torn down.
Looking west-southwest, 01.30.08.
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I wish there were more tile roofs in North Carolina. They're all over the place where I'm from (S.F. Bay Area) because of all the Spanish influence. I know N.C. doesn't have much Spanish influence, but it does have a lot of clay. I wish some of that clay and brickmaking tradition had been diverted into making roof tiles. Asà es la vida.
I do seem to recall a white house with a tile roof being there during my time at D.A.'s lower-school. I would peg the date of demolition to be after 1984 but before summer of 1988. That is, if my memory is correct.
Well, my alma mater, NCSSM, nee Watts Hospital the Second, is covered with them. Always kind of had the aspect of going to school in a Spanish mission.
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