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Ben-Wiley Hotel is a historic
hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...
building located at Fuquay-Varina,
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. It was built in 1925, and is a
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style frame building consisting of two hip-roofed blocks; the two-story main block with a hip roofed front porch, and a two-story rear block. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has widely overhanging eaves. It was converted from 12 hotel rooms to 6
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s in 1947. It was listed on the
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in 1997. It is also a Contributing Property to the Fuquay Springs Historic District.


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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Hotel buildings completed in 1925 Buildings and structures in Wake County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina {{WakeCountyNC-NRHP-stub