High Point owed its prosperity to industry. By 1907, when this photograph was taken, the revenues from furniture, textiles and tobacco were fueling urban growth. Construction on High Point's first skyscraper, the North Carolina Savings Bank and Trust Company building, had just started and would be completed the following year. Today it is more commonly called the Wright Building, but remains one of the architectural landmarks of what was once High Point's commercial district.

Gift of Jesse C. Brinson.

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