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Next COA Deadline:
4:00 pm on May 18
Antebellum and Civil War Period, 1831-1865, Institutional
Peace College, Main Campus
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:49pm
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 - 2:48pm
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.
Chapel, St. Mary's School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:46pm
Street Address:
900 Hillsborough Street (St. Mary's School)
Date:
1856 Designed by English-born architect Richard Upjohn, this small board-and-batten Carpenter Gothic chapel graces the campus with its beauty and simplicity.
O'Rorke Catholic Cemetery
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:45pm
Street Address:
1101 Pender Street
Date:
1858 Prominent layman John O’Rorke donated land to the Catholic Diocese for this cemetery, the oldest historic resource in the city associated with Raleigh’s Catholic community.
Christ Episcopal Church
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:43pm
Street Address:
120 East Edenton Street (Union Square)
Date:
1848-1852, 1859-1861 English-born architect Richard Upjohn, founder of the American Institute of Architects, designed this granite church in the early English parish style of Gothic architecture.
State Capitol
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:41pm
Street Address:
1 East Edenton Street (Union Square)
Date:
1833-40 Built to replace the original capitol building, which burned in 1831, this National Historic Landmark is one of America's most important neoclassical structures.
Smedes Hall, St. Mary's School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:40pm
Street Address:
900 Hillsborough Street
Date:
1839 Smedes Hall is a three-and one-half story Greek Revival brick building.
East and West Rocks, St. Mary's School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:38pm
Street Address:
900 Hillsborough Street
Date:
1834; 1835 East Rock (1834) and West Rock (1835) were built of stone discarded during the construction of the second State House.
St. Mary's School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:37pm
Street Address:
900 Hillsborough Street
Date:
ca. 1834 Saint Mary's School, Raleigh's oldest private educational institution for girls, was founded in 1842, following the failure of an Episcopal school for boys established on this site around 1834.
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