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Next COA Deadline:
4:00 pm on March 19
Antebellum and Civil War Period, 1831-1865
The Boylan Mansion (Montford Hall)
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:05pm
Street Address:
308 South Boylan Avenue
Date:
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.
Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:03pm
Street Address:
125 East South Street
Date:
ca. 1855 This two-story Greek Revival frame building has distinctive Italianate accents.
Lewis-Smith House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:02pm
Street Address:
515 North Blount Street
Date:
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.
Oak View
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:00pm
Street Address:
Poole Road at I-440 Beltline (Oakview Historic Park)
Date:
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.
Richard B. Haywood House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:59pm
Street Address:
127 East Edenton Street
Date:
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.
Henry Porter House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:57pm
Street Address:
555 New Bern Avenue
Date:
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 R
Alpheus Jones House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:56pm
Street Address:
6512 Louisburg Road
Date:
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.
Pine Hall
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:52pm
Street Address:
5300 Castlebrook Drive
Date:
ca. 1841, 1940-1941 Built ca. 1841 by Jeremiah Dunn, Pine Hall was part of a thousand-acre antebellum farm.
Peace College, Main Campus
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:49pm
Street Address:
15 East Peace Street (Peace College Campus)
Date:
ca. 1861 Peace Institute, chartered in 1857, was named for William Peace, who contributed eight acres and $10,000 toward the establishment of a Presbyterian school for girls.
First Baptist Church
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:48pm
Street Address:
99 North Salisbury Street
Date:
1859 Designed by English architect William Percival, First Baptist Church is a variant of the Gothic Revival style.
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Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHLs)
On December 6, Raleigh City Council designated 4 new RHLs: the Cameron-Maynard-Gatling House, the Free Church of the Good Shepherd, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (GUOOF) Building, and the Raleigh Bonded Warehouse.
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National Register of Historic Places
In 2011, four RHDC sponsored Historic Districts were listed in the National Register: Longview Gardens, Rochester Heights, Battery Heights, and Hi-Mount.
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Certificates of Appropriateness (COAs)
After a year-long public effort of updating the Design Guidelines, the draft document is in the hands of the City Attorney prior to going to the RHDC and City Council for formal adoption.
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Historic Overlay Districts (HODs)
The possibility of the first new HOD in 20 years is on the horizon with a public information meeting set for January 18 and report to City Council on
February 7.
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