{"nrhp_refnum":"85003076","name":"Capital Club Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"16 W. Martin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.77730085600007,"lon":-78.64019339699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story Art Deco office and club building at 16 West Martin Street in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, built in 1929-30 to designs by architect Frank Buchanan Simpson for the Capital Club.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building reflects Raleigh's commercial expansion of the 1920s and the social and political life of the state's leading men through the Capital Club. It also applies Art Deco motifs to traditional regional practice, with distinctive interior and exterior detail and a nearly intact ballroom. Its 1970s rehabilitation is cited as an early example of adaptive reuse downtown.","narrative":"Capital Club Building, at 16 West Martin Street in Raleigh, is a twelve-story brown brick office tower completed in 1930 for the Capital Club, a social organization chartered in 1885. Architect Frank Buchanan Simpson scaled back an initial plan of fourteen to sixteen stories. The exterior combines a column-style layout with geometric and Egyptian-inspired Art Deco ornament, including copper panels, cast stone pilasters and stacked windows. Inside, the marble lobby, red oak trim and ziggurat-patterned door hardware survive in large part, as does the ornate plaster ballroom on the twelfth floor. The club lost the building during the Depression, and it later housed many office tenants. Its renovation in the 1970s, at a time when many downtown buildings were being abandoned or demolished, was described as a landmark in adaptive use. The building is significant for its architecture, its role in 1920s commercial growth and its link to prominent figures in state affairs.","period_of_significance":"1929/30","architect_builder":"Frank Buchanan Simpson","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Upper floors originally used by the Capital Club have been converted to rental offices; the building was renovated for office and commercial use in the 1970s and is in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.45285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7225/47722529/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85003076.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003076/0fad2ed5e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003076/0fad2ed5e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bz3rk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_Club_Building,_Raleigh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bz3rk</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:Capital_Club_Building,_Raleigh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722529","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Club_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5035528"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/capital-club-building-85003076/"}