{"nrhp_refnum":"00000457","name":"Mahler and Carolina Trust Buildings","other_names":["McLellan's Dime Store","McCrory's Dime Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"228-232 Fayetteville St. Mall","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.77728674600007,"lon":-78.63947483199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjoining commercial buildings at 228-232 Fayetteville Street Mall in downtown Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina: the three-story Mahler Building (1876) and the four-story Carolina Trust Building (1902), later combined into a dime store.","why_significant":"The buildings represent Raleigh's downtown commercial evolution from Reconstruction-era mercantile shops, through early twentieth-century banking and office development, to the Depression-era dime store. They are also architecturally notable for their Renaissance Revival and Classical Revival facades and largely intact upper-floor interiors. The site is also linked to the 1960 Civil Rights sit-ins at Raleigh lunch counters.","narrative":"Two neighboring buildings on Raleigh's Fayetteville Street Mall, one raised in 1876 and the other in 1902, together tell the story of the city's main commercial street. The three-story Mahler Building, with a Renaissance Revival facade, housed a jewelry store. The four-story Carolina Trust Building, in Classical Revival style, held banks on the ground floor and about thirty offices above. McLellan's dime store chain bought the Carolina Trust Building in 1928, added a rear wing, took over the Mahler Building in 1933, and built a Martin Street annex around 1952. McCrory's later ran the store. A 1971 metal screen hid the upper facades until 1999, and the upper floors have been unused since the 1950s but keep most of their original plans and finishes. The complex also reflects the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins in Raleigh and the later shift of retail to suburban malls.","period_of_significance":"1876-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival; Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Ground floor in use as a McCrory's dime store; upper floors deteriorated and unused since the 1950s, with rehabilitation planned.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.712484-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/7225/47722517/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000457.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000457/4c05577a94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000457/4c05577a94-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"James Willamor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahler_and_Carolina_Trust_Buildings.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">James Willamor</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahler_and_Carolina_Trust_Buildings.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001412","name":"Fayetteville Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-street-historic-district-07001412/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722517","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahler_and_Carolina_Trust_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20679809"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/mahler-and-carolina-trust-buildings-00000457/"}