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Late Nineteenth Century,1866-1899
Chapel, St. Augustine College
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:26pm
Street Address:
1315 Oakwood Avenue (Saint Augustine's College Campus)
Date:
1895 The chapel is one of the oldest surviving buildings on Saint Augustine's campus. Students built the irregular T-shaped chapel of native granite under the direction of Rev. Henry Beard Delany.
Latta House & University Site
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:25pm
Street Address:
1001 Parker Street
Date:
1892 In 1892, freed slave and teacher Rev. M. L.
Holladay Hall, NC State University
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:22pm
Street Address:
Primrose Avenue (North Carolina State University Campus)
Date:
1889 Holladay Hall has an irregular H-shape with a three-story main pavilion flanked by two-and-one-half-story gable-roofed wings. It employs both Classical and Romanesque details.
Water Tower
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:21pm
Street Address:
115 W. Morgan Street
Date:
1887 The City of Raleigh erected this octagonal brick tower to house its water supply in 1887; the structure included an attached two-story office building.
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Cottage
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:20pm
Street Address:
2714 Vanderbilt Avenue
Date:
1886, 1926 In 1886, this two-story frame farmhouse stood on ten acres well beyond the city limits.
Federal Building (Century Post Office)
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:18pm
Street Address:
314 Fayetteville Street
Date:
1874 The office of Alfred B. Mullet, supervising architect of the United States Treasury Department, designed what was to be the first federal project in North Carolina following the Civil War.
Estey Hall, Shaw University
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:16pm
Street Address:
100 block East South Street (Shaw University Campus)
Date:
1874 Estey Hall was the first structure built for the higher education of African American women in the United States and is the oldest surviving building on the Shaw University campus. Designed by G.
Pilot-Crompton Mill
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:15pm
Street Address:
1121 Haynes Street
Date:
1893, 1910, ca. 1917 An urban-based industrial complex two blocks north of the 1881 city limits, the mill buildings and accompanying worker housing mirrored those of rural mill sites. James and William H.
Caraleigh Mills
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:13pm
Street Address:
421 Maywood Avenue
Date:
1892, expanded ca. 1900, ca. 1910, ca. 1919, and in the 1950s Caraleigh Mills is the largest of the six textile mills built in Raleigh.
Raleigh Cotton Mills
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:12pm
Street Address:
614 Capital Boulevard
Date:
1890; 1895 This structure stands as a relatively rare example of late-nineteenth-century industrial architecture in Raleigh, a city that has always been a government, education, and market center rather than
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