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Next COA Deadline:
4:00 pm on May 18
Late Nineteenth Century,1866-1899, Institutional
North Carolina School for the Blind and Deaf Dormitory
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:27pm
Street Address:
216 West Jones Street
Date:
1898 Architect Frank P. Milburn designed this Chateauesque building that stands on Caswell Square, one of the five public squares in the original 1792 plan for Raleigh.
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.
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Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHLs)
A joint public hearing before the Raleigh City Council and the Raleigh Historic Development Commission is being held for May 1 to discuss the designation of the G. Dewey and Elma Arndt House as a historic landmark.
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Historic Overlay Districts (HODs)
The city’s first new HOD in 20 years takes effect May 1.
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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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