We're back on Fourth, but now down the street and looking back to the west. We can't see the R.J. Reynolds Building because it is behind us and to the right (on the other side of Fourth Street). Immediately in front of us, on the left, is the Forsyth County Courthouse. Farther down the street, with what appears to be a large antenae rising out of it, is the Carolina Hotel.

Diagonally across from the Courthouse is the O'Hanlon Building, another neo-classical building in red brick with the distinctive white facing on the upper floor. The nine story O'Hanlon was built by pharmacist Edward W. O'Hanlon in 1915. The ground floor housed O'Hanlon's Drug Store until 1962. Often referred to as "Winston-Salem's first skyscraper," the O'Hanlon is presently used as office condominiums. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The building across Fourth Street from the O'Hanlon (and directly across from the Courthouse) is the Pepper Building. It was built in 1926, and is currently undergoing renovation into restaurant, retail, and living space.

Here is an alternate view of the O'Hanlon and the Pepper; this time looking up Liberty Street. That's Fourth Street crossing the scene. The Pepper Building is tinted the wrong color on this postcard; the top postcard is more accurate. Perhaps the colorist thought two adjacent red brick buildings was not pleasing to the eye.

The foliage and the white pillar monument in the lower right corner are on the block with the courthouse (you can see the monument in the top postcard, as well).

The caption on the back of this card is a Fine Example of Over Capitalization Syndrome:

Winson-Salem, is a City of Churches, Schools and Substantial Business Institutions where the Home is Paramount and where Cooperation is the Foundation of Community Life.

I think I'd like that on a coffee mug.

The 1915 O'Hanlon "skyscraper" replaced an earlier O'Hanlon building on the same site, pictured above. This original O'Hanlon building was built in 1895 and was destroyed by fire in 1913.

This post card looks down Liberty Street at the Fourth Street intersection. Interestingly enough, this card was mailed in Winston-Salem in January of 1914, after the O'Hanlon building it depicts had burned down.