December 6, 2011

The Cameron-Maynard-Gatling house is one of the oldest houses in the Oakwood Historic District. The house was constructed between 1860 and 1865 and on the 1872 Bird’s Eye View of Raleigh Map it appears in essentially its present form. The building is undergoing renovation.

The Free Church of the Good Shepherd, was first occupied on Easter Sunday, March 28, 1875. It was constructed by a group of members of Christ Episcopal Church who withdrew their membership from that church due to their opposition to its church’s traditional policy of raising money through the sale of church pews. The new building housed a “free church.” The church is architecturally significant as one of only two Carpenter Gothic-style churches remaining in Raleigh.

The brick three-story Odd Fellows building was constructed in the late 1800s as a commercial building. It was acquired by a lodge of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in 1891. The building is significant in that it is the earliest known extant building associated with an African-American benevolent or secret society in the City of Raleigh.

The Raleigh Bonded Warehouse complex is one of the earliest, largest, and best-preserved commercial warehouses in Raleigh. Its use of reinforced concrete construction exemplifies the innovations in structural engineering in factory and warehouse design that transformed industrial construction during the early twentieth century. The complex includes the 1923 warehouse, the 1923, 1940s office, the 1949 packing building, and the early 1950s weigh station.

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