The first The State office lives in the heart of downtown Raleigh on Salisbury Street — you can find editors and writers cranking out a weekly magazine in The Lawyers Building, which also serves as the entrance and lobby into the famed State Theatre. The building was constructed in the 1920s, and the tops of the walls are lined with intricate scroll carvings.
To commemorate our 90th anniversary, we’ve compiled a time line that highlights the stories, contributors, and themes that have shaped this magazine — and your view of the Old North State — using nine decades of our own words.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
Us? An icon? Well, after 90 years and more than 2,000 issues celebrating North Carolina from mountains to coast, we hope you’ll agree that we’ve earned the title.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
