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Next COA Deadline:
4:00 pm on March 19
Early Development, Prior to 1830
Spring Hill/Theophilus Hunter House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:23pm
Street Address:
705 Barbar Drive (Dorothea Dix Hospital Campus)
Date:
ca. 1815 Spring Hill was the home of prominent late eighteenth/early nineteenth century plantation owner and lawyer, Theophilus Hunter Jr.
Elmwood
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:21pm
Street Address:
16 North Boylan Avenue
Date:
ca. 1813 Elmwood, a two-and-one-half story frame townhouse, has been home to many distinguished North Carolinians including two Supreme Court chief justices, an associate justice, an ambassador and a histor
Andrew Johnson House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:19pm
Street Address:
1 Mimosa Street (Mordecai Historic Park)
Date:
Before 1808 Andrew Johnson, seventeenth president of the United States, was born in this tiny gambrel-roofed building with a loft.
Trinity House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:17pm
Street Address:
3700 Trenton Road
Date:
ca. 1800 The Trinity House is Wake County's oldest surviving brick house.
White-Holman House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:56am
Street Address:
206 New Bern Avenue
Date:
ca. 1799 Also known as Whitehall, the original late Georgian/early Federal-style dwelling was built for secretary of state William White.
Haywood Hall
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:54am
Street Address:
211 New Bern Avenue
Date:
ca. 1799 Built for John Haywood, state treasurer for forty years, Haywood Hall remained home to one of North Carolina's most distinguished families until 1977.
Crabtree Jones House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:52am
Street Address:
3017 Wake Forest Road
Date:
ca. 1795 This Federal-style plantation house features molded weatherboards, modillion cornice, Flemish bond chimneys and six-panel doors. Nathaniel Jones, an early Wake County settler, built the dwelling.
Lane-Bennett House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:46am
Street Address:
7408 Ebenezer Church Road
Date:
1775 Joseph Lane, brother of Joel Lane, who owned the land upon which Raleigh was founded, built this small Georgian style farmhouse in western Wake County.
Joel Lane House
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:43am
Street Address:
728 West Hargett Street
Date:
ca. 1760 Wakefield, the gambrel-roofed home of Colonel Joel Lane, has been restored to its 1790-1795 appearance by the Wake County Committee of the Colonial Dames.
State Bank of North Carolina
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:37am
Street Address:
123 New Bern Avenue
Date:
1813 Raleigh's oldest surviving financial building housed the first state-sponsored banking institution in North Carolina.
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