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The mission of the Raleigh Historic Development Commission is to identify, preserve, protect, and promote Raleigh’s historic resources.

Residential, Antebellum and Civil War Period, 1831-1865

The Boylan Mansion (Montford Hall)

The Boylan Mansion (Montford Hall), Photo by D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina
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

Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House, Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2012 Raleigh Historic Development Commission
Street Address: 
125 East South Street
Date: 
ca. 1855

This two-story Greek Revival frame building has distinctive Italianate accents.

Lewis-Smith House

Lewis-Smith House, Photo by J. Schwaller, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina
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

Oak View, Photo by Michael Zirkle Photography, copyright 2012 Raleigh Historic Development Commission
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

Richard B. Haywood House, Photo by A. Neifeld, Preservation North Carolina, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina
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

Henry Porter House, Photo by B. Fullington, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina
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

Alpheus Jones House, Photo by D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina
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

Pine Hall, Photo by D. Strevel, Capital City Camera Club, courtesy of Preservation North Carolina
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.

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