Lording o'er an electrical substation was a pink brick auditorium from 1939.

Here was a salmon-colored wall of Etowah brick at the backside of the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, originally named the Asheville City Auditorium, which was built in 1938-1939 and opened in January 1940, designed by Lindsey M. Gudger.

 

In the 1970s the auditorium was renamed in honor of the writer Thomas Wolfe and incorporated into the Asheville Civic Center, which was distastefully renamed the U.S. Cellular Center in 2012, and then the Harrah's Cherokee Center in 2020, per a reasonably well-referenced (as of this writing) Wikipedia article.

 

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, was the backside of the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium and a Duke Energy substation as viewed from the east side of Rankin Avenue, south of Hiawassee Street.

 

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