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Next COA Deadline:
4:00 pm on May 18
Early Twentieth Century, 1900-1945, Institutional
Chavis Park Carousel
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:34pm
Street Address:
Chavis Park at East Lenoir Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Date:
ca. 1913 carousel installed in the park in 1937 Thirty-six hand-carved, hand-painted horses--all jumpers--carry revelers around and around on the Chavis Park Carousel, a gem in the WPA-era park built for African Americans in segregated Raleigh.
(former) Saint Monica's School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:33pm
Street Address:
15 North Tarboro Street
Date:
1930 The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh built St. Monica's for African American students in 1930, when all city schools were still segregated.
Needham B. Broughton High School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:31pm
Street Address:
723 Saint Mary's Street
Date:
1929 William Henley Deitrick received the American Institute of Architects outstanding school prize for the 1930 design of the Northern Italian Romanesque school.
N.C. State Fair Commercial & Educational Buildings
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:30pm
Street Address:
North Carolina State Fairgrounds, corner of Hillsborough St. and Blue Ridge Road These Mediterranean Revival buildings, designed by the firm of Atwood and Weeks, are emblematic of the role of agriculture in the economy of North Carolina and the tradition of state fairs begun in
Agricultural Building of the Berry O'Kelly School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:28pm
Street Address:
514 Method Road
Date:
1926 Berry O'Kelly School is in the Method community, a reconstruction-era village founded by former slave Jesse Mason.
Glenwood Fire Station (Engine Company Number 4)
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:27pm
Street Address:
505 Jefferson Street
Date:
1924 Raleigh's municipal fire department, organized in 1912, erected this small neighborhood fire station, one of the city's first.
Washington Graded and High School
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:25pm
Street Address:
1000 Fayetteville Street
Date:
1923-1924; 1927; 1948-1950; 1996 This was the first public high school for African Americans in Raleigh and continued as the only such school until 1953.
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:23pm
Street Address:
520 Method Road
Date:
1923 This Gothic Revival brick church stands as an example of the stylish churches that anchored African American communities that developed in Raleigh after the Civil War and prospered into the mid-twe
Agriculture Building
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:22pm
Street Address:
2-20 West Edenton Street
Date:
1923 Designed by the Raleigh architects G. Murray Nelson and Thomas W.
Mary Elizabeth Hospital
Submitted by gshupe on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:20pm
Street Address:
1100 Wake Forest Road
Date:
1920 Mary Elizabeth Hospital, established in 1914 as Raleigh's first private hospital, erected this building in 1920 to house forty-nine beds in a modern facility. Designed by hospital founder Dr.
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