| | Antebellum and Civil War Residential Architecture, 1831-1865* | Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2009 Raleigh Historic Districts Commission Photo by B. Fullington, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2009 Raleigh Historic Districts Commission Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2009 Raleigh Historic Districts Commission Photo by J. Schwaller, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2009 Raleigh Historic Districts Commission Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2009 Raleigh Historic Districts Commission 6512 Louisburg Road ca. 1847 This stately but unpretentious frame house was built in the Greek Revival style on 680 acres given to Alpheus Jones by his father Seth Jones, who served in the House of Commons from 1814 to 1819. The two-story hip-roofed house features a two-story Doric portico centered on the facade. After a mid-1970s rehabilitation, the dwelling housed a restaurant for a time. Private residence.
*National Register of Historic Places 555 New Bern Avenue Before 1850
This frame house, built for prominent mid-nineteenth-century merchant Henry Porter, features a two-story pedimented porch and a low-pitched hip roof, typical features of Raleigh's surviving Greek Revival dwellings. Private residence. 127 East Edenton Street 1854 Richard B. Haywood, a founder of the North Carolina Medical Society, designed this Greek Revival brick townhouse, also known as Crabapple. Its outstanding feature is the superb Doric-order porch. The house is the last surviving dwelling in the Capitol Square Historic District and is still owned by the Haywood family. Private residence.
*National Register of Historic Places ca. 1855, ca. 1900, 1940-1941 Oak View, a late-antebellum family farm of nearly a thousand acres, includes a mid-nineteenth century I-house with Greek Revival details known as the Williams-Wyatt-Poole House. The original two-story pedimented portico with paneled columns and pilasters remains, and sawn balusters line the upper level. The family enlarged and remodeled the house in the Colonial Revival style in 1940-1941. Also on the property are three turn-of-the-century barns, a pre-1940 water tower, and an extensive pecan grove. The County of Wake acquired the house and seventy-two acres in 1984 for use as an office and park. The park offers exhibits and interpretive tours and is also available for receptions.
*National Register of Historic Places 515 North Blount Street ca. 1855 The Lewis-Smith house is an excellent example of the Greek Revival style, featuring a two-story pedimented portico supported by Doric columns on the first level and Ionic columns on the second. Moved from its original location on N. Wilmington Street, the house is used by the state for offices but will soon be rehabilitated and returned to residential use.
*National Register of Historic Places 125 East South Street ca. 1855 This two-story Greek Revival frame building has distinctive Italinate accents. The house was associated with a series of leading figures in local, state, and national history including congressman Sion H. Rogers, legislator William Henry Bagley, journalist and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and educator Albert W. Pegues. Now owned by Shaw University, the house was rehabilitated in 1999 and is used for offices.
*National Register of Historic Places 308 South Boylan Avenue 1858 The Italianate-style plantation home of prominent citizen William Montford Boylan is a landmark at the northern entrance to the Boylan Heights Historic District. Designed by English architect William Percival, the house features deep bracketed eaves, round-arched and segmented-arch windows, and a polygonal cupola at the roof. A local church altered the dwelling for religious services, but Montford Hall has since been restored to its original use. Private residence.
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| Retrospective | Photo courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives |
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