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UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > Capital Plaza Hotel (Viewed 469 times)
DJ Craig 

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Capital Plaza Hotel
< on 5/14/2010 5:19 PM >
Posted on Forum: UER Forum
 
I've been making regular trips to Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill for years and every time I'm in town I try really hard to get into this beautiful building. Every time it's too well boarded up and I often end up getting run off by the part-time (most-of-the-time) security guard that sits in her car in the vacant lot eating donuts 24/7. In probably about 10 valiant attempts over the last 2 years I've never made it in.

As I approached the place on my most recent trip, I realized that the usual security guard was not there. Instead, there were a few pick-up trucks parked out front; workers of some sort. After a few minutes of friendly social engineering, I had free roam of the building with a camera.

The place was in surprisingly good condition. It clearly has been vandalized quite a bit, probably before they got the security guard and boarded it all up really well, but there is no evidence of any type of structural decay. All it would take to re-open the place would be replacing a lot of broken glass and repainting over the graffiti. The hotel featured a huge, elegant lobby, an indoor pool, a night club, a conference center and a restaurant.

It always feels weird for me to explore abandoned conference centers like this since I'm a mobile DJ (meaning I DJ weddings, birthday parties, proms, etc) and I DJ in places like this all the time.

I originally found this place through the UER database. I think in the near future it will be renovated and re-opened. It's also ridiculously difficult, if not impossible, to get into without permission. Those three things are the reason I'm not making any effort to conceal the location in this thread.


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Re: Capital Plaza Hotel
<Reply # 1 on 5/14/2010 9:57 PM >
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My sofa is still there!

The building looks like its in worse shape then last time I was there... to bad.

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Re: Capital Plaza Hotel
<Reply # 2 on 5/15/2010 6:13 AM >
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It always pays to talk to people to let you! And looks like you captured a ghost in #10...you need to call TAPS!!

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