Nissen Building (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

USA / North Carolina / Winston-Salem / Winston-Salem, North Carolina / West 4th Street, 310
 office building, skyscraper, condominium, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places
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The exterior of the Nissen Building is clad in buff brick laid in Flemish bond. Ornamentation is of granite, marble, and limestone.
W.M. Nissen built the building with money from his famous Wagon Works (a company dating back to 1787), and lived on the 20th floor of the building.
It was the first air-conditioned building in the Southeast.
The tallest building in Winston-Salem from 1927 to 1929 when the Reynolds building was completed.
Also goes by these names: BB&T Center City, First Union Building, 310 West Fourth Street
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissen_Building
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Coordinates:   36°5'52"N   80°14'50"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago