Title	Liberty Life Building at night
Subject	Liberty Life Building (Charlotte, N.C.) Liberty Life Insurance Co. WIST (Radio station : Charlotte, N.C.) Skyscrapers--North Carolina--Charlotte Historic buildings--North Carolina--Charlotte Commercial buildings--North Carolina--Charlotte
Subject Personal	Asbury, Louis H. (Louis Humbert), 1877-1975
Description	Postcard depicts a full moon over the Liberty Life Building at night in Charlotte, NC. The moon is on the left hand side of the picture. [35 - Pub. by Dixie News Co., Charlotte, NC – 71973; Tichnor Brothers; color; linen; fine] Built in 1926/27, the neoclassical style edifice has had many names, First National Bank Building, Liberty Life Building (1942), Baugh Building (1964), and Bank of North Carolina Center (1976). Twenty-one stories high and located in the 100 block of South Tryon Street, it was designed by Louis Asbury, and briefly was the tallest building in the Carolinas and the tallest in Charlotte up until 1967. On December 17, 2007, the Charlotte City Council designated the early skyscraper as an historic landmark. In 2007, the building was converted to an office condominium and renamed to simply Tryon Plaza. Of historical note, on January 12, 1948, radio station WIST signed on from studios on the second floor of the building at the invitation of the Liberty Life Insurance Company.
Object Type	Still Image
Subject - Location	Charlotte (N.C.) Mecklenburg County (N.C.)
Date of material	1899-1979
Publisher	Charlotte, N.C.: J. Murrey Atkins Library University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Genre	Picture postcards
Format	image/tiff
Identifier	mb121_3_7_078f
Source	Mary Boyer Collection. J. Murrey Atkins Library University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Relation	Forms part of: Mary Boyer Collection, 1899 - 1979
Language	eng
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Category	Business, Commerce, Textile
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