100 North Main Street facts for kids
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100 North Main Street
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| Record height | |
| Tallest in Winston-Salem since 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Winston Tower |
| General information | |
| Type | office |
| Location | 100 N. Main Street Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36°05′43″N 80°14′39″W / 36.095404°N 80.244085°W |
| Completed | 1995 |
| Cost | $80,000,000 |
| Owner | WFC Property LLC |
| Height | |
| Roof | 140.21 m (460 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 28 |
| Floor area | 50,737 m2 (546,130 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | César Pelli |
| Main contractor | Holder Construction Company |
100 North Main Street, also called the Wells Fargo Center, is a very tall office building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. It stands 460 feet (140 meters) high and has 34 floors. This building is a great example of Postmodern architecture, which is a style that mixes old and new ideas.
When it was first built in 1995, it was named Wachovia Center. It was the main office for Wachovia bank until 2001. That year, the bank joined with another company and moved its main office to Charlotte, North Carolina. This building is the tallest in the Piedmont Triad area. It was also the tallest building in the Carolinas outside Charlotte for many years.
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About 100 North Main Street
The famous architect César Pelli designed this building. He also designed the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Pelli wanted the building to show off themes from the Moravian Church. These themes are very common in Winston-Salem.
Its Unique Design
One special part of the design is the Moravian arch. You can see this arch shape in the building's dome. Another cool feature is the Moravian star, which is used in the lobby's floor designs. César Pelli once said the tower looked like a rosebud about to open.
The building is covered in a special white stone called Olympia white granite. It is the only skyscraper in the world with a dome made entirely of granite. This granite came from a single quarry (a place where stone is dug up) in Sardinia. The dome itself is 59 feet (18 meters) tall and holds important machinery for the building. The beautiful gardens around the building were designed by Diana Balmori, César Pelli's wife, who is a landscape architect.
A Brief History of the Building
This skyscraper was built for Wachovia bank. It was meant to be their new main office, replacing the nearby Wachovia Building (now called Winston Tower). When it was finished in 1995, it became the tallest building in Winston-Salem.
The building was actually the tallest one completed in the entire United States in both 1995 and 1996. Wachovia bank used it as their main office from 1995 until 2001. After Wachovia joined with First Union, they decided to move their main office to Charlotte.
Later, in 2004, Wachovia sold the building to a company called American Financial Realty Trust. Even after selling it, Wachovia bank continued to rent space in the tower for some of its offices.
Changes in Ownership
In 2008, American Financial was bought by another company, Gramercy Capital. Gramercy then sold the building to SL Winston-Salem LLC later that year.
Wachovia bank was bought by Wells Fargo in late 2008. By 2009, Wachovia was renting seventeen floors in the building. Even after Wells Fargo took over, they continued to use a lot of space in the tower.
The Building Today
By 2012, Wells Fargo was using about 65 percent of the building. Other important companies and groups also had offices there. These included Deutsche Bank Securities, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
In 2015, a company called Linville Team Partners started helping to rent out empty spaces in the building. They promoted it as both the Wells Fargo Center and by its address, 100 North Main Street. In 2018, a company called WFC Property LLC bought the building for $62 million.
