The Professional Building is a historic

office An office is a space where an Organization, organization's employees perform Business administration, administrative Work (human activity), work in order to support and realize objects and Goals, plans, action theory, goals of the organizati ...

building located at

Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats, seat of Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County in the United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, second-most ...

. It was designed by Yancey Milburn of the architectural firm

Milburn, Heister & Company Frank Pierce Milburn (December 12, 1868 - September 21, 1926) was a prolific American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His practice was primarily focused on public buildings, particularly courthouses and legislative buildings, ...

and built in 1925. It is an eight-story, steel frame and yellow brick veneer

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

style

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with Beaux Arts style

terra cotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...

ornamental elements. It consists of a two-story "base", five-story "shaft" and one-story "capital" in the Chicago style. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1983.

References

Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Office buildings completed in 1925 Buildings and structures in Raleigh, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina Chicago school architecture in the United States {{RaleighNC-struct-stub