2019 Anthemion Award Winners

The old warehouse building at 411 W. Morgan Street once served as a freight depot for the United States Postal Service in Raleigh and is part of the historic warehouse depot district, a once thriving commercial warehouse ...

The 4,500-square-foot Georgian Revival brick house located at 821 Wake Forest Road was originally owned by William Grimes Haywood, head chemist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and a prominent Raleigh cit...

The Victorian stucco-sided brick cottage located at 304 N. Person Street was built in 1881 for investor Helen Whitaker. The first resident was J. D. Edwards, who had a dry-goods store on Fayetteville Street. The house was...

311 East Lane Street was built for Frank E. Weathers, a cotton buyer, between 1907 and 1909. He resided with his family at 304 N. Person Street and built this house in the back yard. The first resident was clerk Thaddeus ...

The Georgian Revival brick house at 111 E. North Street – known historically as the Howell House – was built in 1925 by Judge George Pierce Pell whose portrait first hung in the North Carolina Supreme Court of...

The Downtown Wake Forest National Register Historic District is a small district of less than thirty contributing buildings constructed of brick between one and four stories tall. The district stretches just three blocks ...

The Arthur and Annie Gorham House, once located at 114 E. Lenoir Street in the Prince Hall Historic District, now sits on its new site at 420 S. Bloodworth Street thanks to the cooperative efforts of preservationists in R...

The c. 1905 L. G. & Ida Rogers House, once located in Raleigh’s historic 4th Ward, now sits on its new site at 432 S. Bloodworth Street thanks to the cooperative efforts of preservationists in Raleigh. Demolition an...

After the Civil War, parcels of land were subdivided throughout the south to be sold to former slaves. This often led to the creation of ‘freedmen communities.’ In 1866, James E. Harris – himself a former slave who ...

Claudia Brown has been a champion of historic preservation in North Carolina for 38 years, 30 of those with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. In the service of her fellow North Carolinians, she has sp...