Herman Greene House
Date: c. 1911 5500 Lake Wheeler Road, Raleigh Easement Acquired 8/10/2021 The c. 1911 Herman and Anna Yates Greene homestead sits on 1.7 acres six miles south of downtown Raleigh. The house is an excellent example of the Colonial Revival style with over 3200 square feet of living space that follows the center-hall, two-room deep…
Herman Greene House – SOLD!
The c. 1911 Herman and Anna Yates Greene homestead sits on 1.7 acres six miles south of downtown Raleigh. The house is an excellent example of the Colonial Revival style with over 3200 square feet of living space that follows the center-hall, two-room deep plan on both levels. Architecturally significant features include two staircases, nine…
Upchurch-Williams House
Date: c. 1905 7213 Roberts Road, Apex Easement Acquired 1/24/2020
Wheeler-Shaw House
Date: c. 1914 113 Holly Springs Road, Holly Springs Easement Acquired 11/15/2019
Glencoe Mill
Date: c. 1880 2322 River Road, Burlington Easement Acquired 10/30/2019
George Sprite and Neva Barbee House
Date: 1914 216 W. Gannon Street, Zebulon Designated 9/1/2020 The George Sprite and Neva Flowers Barbee House embodies distinctive characteristics of an early-twentieth-century Craftsman foursquare dwelling with an eclectic use of some Colonial Revival-style and Prairie-style architectural details. The house is a notable example of its type and style, possessing high artistic values compared to…
John B. Strain House
Date: c. 1840 8563 Lake Wheeler Road, Fuquay-Varina Easement Acquired 10/10/2019
Norris-Holland-Hare House
Date: c. 1805 2329 Avent Ferry Road, Holly Springs Easement Acquired 9/26/2019
C. F. Ferrell House
Date: c. 1900 1132 Morrisville-Carpenter Road, Cary Easement Acquired 10/19/2018
Alsey Thomas Olive House
Date: c. 1905 2708 Olive Chapel Road, Apex Designated 12/17/2019 The c. 1905 Alsey Thomas Olive House is locally significant for its Queen Anne architecture. The house is historically associated with the Olive family, a multi-generational family of successful farmers and community leaders in western Wake County. The house possesses architectural significance as one…
Norris-Holland-Hare House
Date: c. 1805 2329 Avent Ferry Road, Holly Springs Easement Acquired 9/26/2019 The Norris-Holland-Hare House is locally significant as a rare and intact example of an early nineteenth-century hall-and-parlor house. The house retains a high level of exterior integrity of materials, including wood sash windows, plain weatherboards, stone foundation piers, and the Flemish bond…
Mills House c. 1910 – SOLD!
The Mills House is an early twentieth-century single-story Queen Anne Cottage. With its steeply pitched roof and tall interior corbelled brick chimneys, the Mills House is an excellent example of the pyramidal cottage, a house type commonly constructed in the first quarter of the 20th century. Other notable features include an ell addition with exterior…
E.C. and Elvah Daniel House
Date: c. 1918 205 E. Sycamore Street, Zebulon Designated 3/4/2019 The E.C. and Elvah Daniel House at 205 E. Sycamore Street in Zebulon is an excellent and intact example of a Craftsman Foursquare, popular in Wake County’s small towns in the early twentieth century. The house was built as the family home of E.C….
Wakelon School
Date: 1909 1003 N. Arendell Avenue, Zebulon Designated 9/10/2018 Wakelon School is significant in Wake County’s history in the area of education as one of the first four public high schools built in the county under the 1907 state law enabling such institutions. The building is significant in Wake County and in Zebulon in…
Mills House
Date: c. 1890 2020 Laura Duncan Road, Apex Easement Acquired 4/2/2018
G. H. Baucom House
Date: c. 1875 2421 High House Road, Cary Easement Acquired 3/29/2018
Excell and Dixie Holt Phillips House
Date: c. 1935 1425 Apex Peakway, Apex Easement Acquired 1/12/2018
Eno River Mill
Date: c. 1896 437 Dimmocks Mill Road, Hillsborough Easement Acquired 12/22/2017
Lewis-Lynch House
Date: c. 1900 1521 Salem Church Road, Apex Easement Acquired 10/12/2017
Tom Olive House
Date: c. 1880 2708 Olive Chapel Road, Apex Easement Acquired 8/1/2017
Upchurch-Williams House – SOLD!
Spectacular ONE-OF-A-KIND HISTORIC PROPERTY on 5.5 wooded acres in highly desirable Apex, NC (Money Magazine’s #1 place to live in 2015) for sale by Capital Area Preservation with an historic preservation easement and rehabilitation agreement. The c. 1905 Upchurch-Williams House is listed on the State Study List for the National Register of Historic Places and…
Upchurch-Williams House
Date: c. 1905 7213 Roberts Road, Apex Designated 4/3/2018 The Upchurch-Williams House is an excellent example of the transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival style built throughout White Oak Township and other parts of Wake County in the period when the switch from cotton to tobacco brought local farmers a notable level of prosperity. While the…
Baucom-Olive House
Date: c. 1880 206 S. Salem Street, Apex Designated 4/3/2018 The ca. 1880 Baucom-Olive House is significant for its architecture as one of Apex’s most distinctive and intact examples of the early Queen Anne style. The first wave of Apex houses in this long-popular style were essentially vernacular types with applied ornament, while later…
Jones Barn
Date: c. 1937 8265 Pritchett Farm Lane, Cary Easement Acquired 11/23/2016
Sears House
Date: c. 1910 5104 Sears Farm Road, Cary Easement Acquired 9/27/2016
Joseph Blake Farm
Date: c. 1860, c. 1890 4301 Mial Plantation Road, Shotwell vicinity Designated 12/5/2016 The Joseph Blake Farm, established ca. 1860, exemplifies a late-antebellum, well-to-do, eastern Wake County farm in operation into the twentieth century. The farmstead comprises buildings dating from the mid-nineteenth-century through the early twentieth-century. The variety of building types and construction dates…
Lewis-Mitchell House
Date: c. 1929 707 Holland Road, Fuquay-Varina Designated 8/16/2016 The Lewis-Mitchell House, on its 4.15-acre site, is architecturally significant as one of a group of prominent Colonial Revival-style dwellings built by A. Y. Hairr in Fuquay Springs in the 1920s and 1930s. Although the Lewis-Mitchell House has several alterations, it retains integrity of design, setting,…
Plummer T. Hall House
Date: c. 1909 814 Oberlin Road, Raleigh Easement Acquired 10/30/1995, Amended 5/25/2016 Raleigh Historic Landmark The Plummer T. Hall House is a significant example of a Queen Anne cottage built by a member of Raleigh’s black community during the late 19th century. According to family tradition, Rev. Plummer Hall built this house as a…
Levin-Tarlton House
Date: c. 1914 414 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh Easement Acquired 1/12/2016 The house is a well-proportioned Classical Revival residence, c. 1914. CAP recognized W. Sam Tarlton with an Anthemion Award in June 2002 for his restoration of the house. It was moved from its original location at 208 N. Harrington Street to its new location at 414…
George Upchurch House
Date: c. 1895 1024 Waldo Rood Blvd, Cary Easement Acquired 8/26/2015 The George Upchurch House is the older of two houses built by brothers in the late 19th century. The house features a triple-A roof, exterior rear brick chimneys, and Victorian details including a wraparound porch, fishscale shingles in the gables, and original front door with rounded…
James Madison Williams House
Date: c. 1909 4525 Green Level West Road, Apex Designated 12/15/2015 The James Madison Williams House is significant as a unique high-style late Queen Anne farmhouse in western Wake County. It is a rare surviving intact centerpiece of a historic farmscape with several original historic farm buildings associated with the house dating to the…
Robertson-O’Briant Farm
Date: c. 1840, c. 1900 15328 Creedmoor Road, Creedmoor vicinity Designated 4/20/2015 *Destroyed by fire 10/26/2015 The Robertson-O’Briant Farm played a vital role in the founding and growth of the Sandy Plain community. The original Federal-Greek Revival hall and parlor house typifies the modest homes of subsistence farmers in early Wake County. The large and…
Jesse E. and Blake C. Howard House
Date: c. 1923 312 S. Fuquay Avenue, Fuquay-Varina Designated 12/1/2014 The one-and-one-half-story Jesse E. and Blake C. Howard House, built ca. 1923, is an excellent example of a large, and largely intact one-and-one-half-story eclectic bungalow combining Craftsman and Colonial Revival elements throughout. The house is primarily Craftsman in style, featuring as one of its…
Wayland H. and Mamie Burt Stevens House
Date: 1936 408 N. Ennis Street, Fuquay-Varina Designated 12/1/2014 The Wayland H. and Mamie Burt Stevens House is significant as a rare, intact example of the later restrained use of the Colonial Revival style in Fuquay-Varina, including symmetrical massing, front door with fanlight and sidelights, and a classical mantel. In the later years of the…
Jones-Madre House
Date: c. 1800 1269 S. Main Street, Wake Forest Easement Acquired 8/14/2014 Forestville National Register Historic District Study List While the exact construction date is unknown, investigation and material evidence suggest a late eighteenth century to early nineteenth-century structure that was likely moved here from another location sometime in the nineteenth century. The house is a…
Dr. Thomas H. Avera House
Date: c. 1874 6600 Robertson Pond Road, Wendell Designated 10/6/2014 The Dr. Thomas H. Avera House, c. 1874, exhibits local architectural significance as a representative of a rare rural Wake County house designed in the Italianate style with Gothic Revival influences. The two-story, T-shaped frame house with its Gothic-inspired steep gable roofs and decorative…
Robertson’s Mill Site & Dam
Date: c. 1820 6307 Robertson Pond Road, Wendell Designated 10/6/2014 The Robertson’s Mill Site & Dam, constructed in the 1820s, is significant as a focal point of economic activity in the Eagle Rock/Wendell community for nearly two centuries. Initially, activity centered around the mill. Later, as the mill fell out of use, the focal point…
George Upchurch House – SOLD!
The George Upchurch House is the older of two houses built by brothers in the late 19th century. The house features a triple-A roof, exterior rear brick chimneys, and Victorian details including a wraparound porch, fishscale shingles in the gables, and original front door with rounded glazed panels. Interior details include wood flooring, wood sheathing…
Hillcrest Cemetery
Date: c. 1840 610 Page Street, Cary Designated 1/30/2014 The Hillcrest Cemetery is locally significant as the final resting place of men and women who made contributions to the Town of Cary’s social, economic, political, religious growth and development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cemetery is the town’s only municipal cemetery and has…
Reverend Robert E. Atkins House
Date: c. 1913 214 Church Street, Morrisville Designated 12/10/2013 The Reverend E. Atkins House is significant architecturally as being the only example of a Classical Revival cottage in the village of Morrisville, North Carolina. Most of the remaining houses built within the historic development period of Morrisville (1875-1941) are I-Houses and small mill village…
Pugh House
Date: c. 1870 103 Page Street, Morrisville Designated 10/22/2013 The Pugh House is an excellent example of a ca. 1870 I-house with Italianate-influenced elaborate porches. The house is one of only three houses in the Town of Morrisville that retains its detailed sawnwork, and of the three, is the most elaborate architecturally. The house is also…
Panther Branch Rosenwald School
Date: 1926 9109 Sauls Road, Raleigh Designated 9/16/2013 Constructed in 1926, the Panther Branch Rosenwald School is an excellent example of the Three-Teacher Community School. It is one of only four extant Rosenwald School buildings in Wake County, out of twenty-one that were built from 1921 through 1926, and the only remaining example of…
Reba Mills House
Date: c. 1930s 8425 Green Level Church Road, Cary Easement Acquired 4/19/2012 Green Level National Register Historic District This period revival cottage, a one-and-a half-story frame dwelling, displays simple Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival details, including a multi-gabled roofline, prominent front brick chimney, gable returns, porch topped by balcony, and paneled front door. The house has plain…
Cary First Christian Church Cemetery
Date: 1866 300 W. Cornwall Street, Cary Designated 2/27/2013 The Cary First Christian Church Cemetery is historically significant because of its association with the establishment of Cary’s first African American religious congregation and is the location where Cary’s most prominent African Americans from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are buried.
Morrisville Christian Church
Date: 1872 222 Church Street, Morrisville Designated 11/23/2012 The Morrisville Christian Church is architecturally significant as an intact example of a simple, vernacular, frame church. Built in 1872-1873, it stands as a late-nineteenth-century church that was home to a small, independent, conservative congregation in a rural farming village in Wake County. Churches in the late…
Harward House
Date: c. 1914 215 E. Chatham Road, Apex Designated 11/20/2012 Apex National Register Historic District The Harward House is locally significant as one of the few preserved two-story, Queen-Anne vernacular houses in Apex. The house reflects the economic prosperity of the Town after the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as popular architectural trends…
Seagroves Farm
Date: c. 1910 1617 Ten Ten Road, Apex Designated 12/20/2011 The Seagroves Farm is a substantially intact turn-of-the-century tobacco farm complex in western Wake County. The house and three of the seven outbuildings were moved after the widening of Ten Ten Road to maintain their historic relationship to the road. The house retains its…
Zeb & Lorena Atkinson House
Date: 1895 6325 Whitted Road, Fuquay-Varina Designated 12/5/2011 The Zeb and Lorena Atkinson House is a two-story transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival dwelling distinguished by a five-sided corner tower with conical roof, hipped dormers with latticed Palladian windows, and trabeated entrances with latticed sidelights and transom. The weatherboarded house has a high hipped roof and…
Williamson Page House
Date(s): 1830, 1876 116 S. Page Street, Morrisville Designated 10/25/2011 The current appearance of the Williamson-Page House is that of a two-story I-house with a two-story rear wing. Its symmetrical, three-bay façade is spanned by a hipped-roof porch. The roof is covered with sheet metal and has been in place since at least the…
Hales-Tunnell-Bunn House
Date: 1905 102 S. Main Street, Wendell Designated 10/10/2011 The Hales-Tunnell-Bunn House is locally significant as an intact and imposing example of the Queen Anne style popular in Wendell’s early twentieth-century boom period. Though the house lacks the turned and sawn ornament seen on more elaborate Queen Anne dwellings, the double-tier wraparound porch, hipped…
The 1894 Building at Pilot Mill
Date: 1892 1101 Haynes Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 3/1/2010 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The site was purchased in 1894 by James and William Williamson and the first mill building was built that same year. The 1892 Building was built with bricks made by prisoners at the North Carolina State Prison (then…
Fuquay Springs Teacherage
Date(s): 1925, 1947 602 E. Academy Street, Fuquay-Varina Easement Acquired 6/19/2009 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Fuquay-Varina Historic Landmark The Fuquay Springs Teacherage is a two-story Craftsman style building constructed as a private residence in 1925 in Fuquay Varina. In 1947, the Wake County Board of Education bought it and operated it…
I. Beverly Lake, Sr. House
Date: c. 1925 416 N. College Street, Wake Forest Easement Acquired 12/15/2008 The 1920’s Craftsman bungalow with Asian-inspired details sat on the property of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), and was one of many bungalows that once housed Wake Forest College’s faculty and their families. The home is particularly significant for serving as…
Mary Elizabeth Hospital (Former)
Date: 1920 1110 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh Easement Acquired 12/20/2007 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Mary Elizabeth Hospital, located at the intersection of Wake Forest Road and Glascock Street in Raleigh, was constructed in 1920. It is an excellent example of a small community hospital built in the Colonial Revival style with…
Seagroves Farm
Date: c. 1910 1617 Ten Ten Road, Apex Easement Acquired 9/24/2007 The John H. and Nevada Seagroves Farm is an especially intact turn-of-the-century tobacco farm complex that features a one story, triple-A-roofed house and several frame outbuildings. According to family members, Raymond Baker of Apex and his three brothers built the Seagroves Farm around…
The 1910 Building at Pilot Mill
Date: 1910 1111 Haynes Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 12/2/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Raleigh Historic Landmark The Pilot Mill Company was one of two textile mills in Raleigh that produced gray goods (unfinished cotton) around the turn of the 20th century. The site was purchased in 1892 by James and William…
Thompson House
Date: 1835 2328 Old NC 98 Highway, Wake Forest Vicinity Easement Acquired 9/28/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Wake County Historic Landmark Local Tradition holds that this two-story Greek Revival-style house, owned for many years by Bill Thompson, served as a school at some point in its history. Probably built in the 1840s or 1850s,…
Purefoy-Dunn House
Date(s): c. 1810-1825 11300 Capital Boulevard, Wake Forest Easement Acquired 8/30/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built in the first quarter of the 19th century and later renovated in the mid-19th century, the boldly-detailed Greek Revival-style plantation house sits on a plateau at the top of a small hill on the east…
Turner & Amelia Smith House
Date: c. 1886 12244 Old Stage Road, Willow Spring Vicinity Easement Acquired 1/31/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places In 1886 William A. Myatt provided 211 of land for his daughter Amelia and her new husband, Turner Smith, on which to build a dwelling. Like his brother Frank, Turner Smith worked as a…
Wesley A. Putney House
Date: c. 1905 416 Morson Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 3/16/2004 Oakwood National Register Historic District Oakwood Local Historic District The Wesley A. Putney House was built c.1905 and is a two-story, front-gabled, Italianate dwelling. It was built by Wesley A. Putney, an assistant pressman at the Raleigh Evening Times newspaper. Originally located at 420…
Frazier House
Date: 1920s 121 E. South Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 5/13/2003 South Park/East Raleigh National Register Historic District The Frazier House sits next to the Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House. CAP holds an easement for the term of the lease. CAP featured the house on its Fall 2002 Landmarks Tour and honored the rehabilitation with an Anthemion Award in…
Guess-White-Ogle House
Date: 1880 215 S. Academy Street, Cary Easement Acquired 4/25/2003 Cary National Register Historic District Cary Historic Landmark The Guess-White-Ogle House represents several different architectural styles and was built in stages beginning in the 1830s. Apparently a traditional two-story Greek Revival dwelling originally, the house was expanded and remodeled in the Queen Anne style in…
Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House
Date: c. 1855 125 E. South Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 9/6/2002 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places South Park/East Raleigh National Register Historic District Raleigh Historic Landmark This house is a striking example of Greek Revival architecture with distinctive Italianate accents, one of the few surviving antebellum structures in the southern part of…
Maynard-Pearson House
Date: 1872 1101 Olive Chapel Road, Apex Easement Acquired 8/31/1999 Apex Historic Landmark The Maynard-Pearson House was constructed c.1872 by Mr. James Jackson Maynard and his wife, Civil Pearson Maynard, on land given to Civil by her father’s will. The house is an excellent example of a triple-A roofed I-house, a common house type…
J.M. Norwood House
Date: c. 1870 226 E. Martin Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 8/12/1997 Moore Square National Register Historic District Moore Square Local Historic District The Norwood House was constructed c.1870 by J.M. Norwood, who was chief of the Raleigh Police Department at the time. It is the only 19th-century residence remaining on Moore Square in downtown…
John T. & Mary Turner House
Date: c. 1880 1002 Oberlin Road, Raleigh Easement Acquired 4/7/1995 Raleigh Historic Landmark The Turner House was built c.1880 by John and Mary Turner in the Oberlin community in southwest Raleigh. The Oberlin community was one of the first freedmen’s communities founded in Raleigh after the Civil War, and was so named after Oberlin…
Burt-Utley House
Date(s): c. 1820-1840 5616 Hilltop-Needmore Road, Fuquay-Varina Easement Acquired 3/21/1994 Built between c.1820-1840 by Paschall B. Burt, the Burt-Utley House stands as one of the largest and most fashionable houses built in southwestern Wake County in the first half of the 19th century. The mortise-and-tenon frame house has four rooms and follows a center-hall…
Montague Building
Date: 1912 128 E. Hargett Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 12/30/1985 Moore Square National Register Historic District Moore Square Local Historic District Built in 1912, the Montague Building is a representative early 20th century commercial building. The architectural style of the Montague Building is an interesting combination of the practicality of the then emerging commercial…
Carrie Strong House
Date: c. 1899 112 N. Person Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 8/6/1985 Oakwood National Register Historic District Oakwood Local Historic District The State of North Carolina donated this c. 1899 Queen Anne style house to CAP. CAP sold the building to Joyner Associates which moved the house from 107 Polk Street to 112 N. Person Street.
Marshall-Harris-Richardson House
Date: c. 1900 116 N. Person Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 8/6/1985 Oakwood National Register Historic District Oakwood Local Historic District The Marshall-Harris-Richardson House is a prime example of late Victorian architecture. Its significance lies in part in its variety of decorative detail, representing the essence of Victorian architecture in Raleigh. The house was built…
Gray-Fish-Richardson House
Date: c. 1880 530 N. Blount Street, Raleigh Easement Acquired 1/13/1983 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Raleigh Historic Landmark This large, Queen Anne-style house was built c. 1880 by Robert and Caro Gray. Robert Gray was a lawyer in Raleigh, partner in the law firm Stamps and Gray. Between 1883 and 1890, he…
Montgomery House
Date: 1906 214 New Bern Place, Raleigh Easement Acquired 1/13/1983 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Montgomery House is typical of turn-of-the-century residential architecture that once dominated the area east of the Capitol. The two-story, Queen Anne-style house, sheathed in clapboard, features an asymmetrical composition, a small, pedimented front porch, and restrained Neoclassical…
Hinton & Son Hardware
Date: 1912 221-223 N. Salem Street, Apex Designated 12/7/2010 Apex National Register Historic District
Harward-Bagley House
Date: c. 1901 209 E. Chatham Street, Apex Designated 12/7/2010 Apex National Register Historic District The Harward-Bagley House was built ca. 1901 by W.H. Harward for his daughter. It is located at 209 E. Chatham Street in Apex, North Carolina. It was recently restored by Doug and Pam Boyette. The dwelling can be best understood…
Pine Hall
Date: c. 1847 5300 Castlebrook Drive, Raleigh Designated 9/14/2010 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Pine Hall, also referred to as the Dunn property, was originally part of an antebellum family farm, built for Jeremiah Dunn, who by 1840 had accumulated approximately 264 acres in St. Matthews Township. After his sons, Nathaniel and Peterson,…
Fuquay-Varina Women’s Club Clubhouse
Date: 1937 602 N. Ennis Street, Fuquay-Varina Designated 8/2/2010 The Fuquay-Varina Woman’s Club is the oldest civic organization in Fuquay-Varina, and has played a significant role in the development of civic and cultural life of Fuquay-Varina since its founding in 1926 as the Varina Woman’s Club. According to oral tradition, the group first met at…
Adams-Edwards House
Date: c. 1850 5321 Tryon Road, Raleigh Vicinity Designated 4/19/2010 The triple-A form house on Tryon Road may be modest in appearance, but it is a unique and highly significant piece of the county’s architectural history. The Adams-Edwards House is one of only a handful of mid-nineteenth century yeoman farmer’s houses in Wake County, and…
Carpenter Farm Supply Company Complex
Date: 1885 1933 Morrisville-Carpenter Road, Cary Designated 3/23/2010 Carpenter National Register Historic District Built in 1885 by William Henry Carpenter, the Carpenter Farm Supply Company Complex provides a glimpse into the agricultural communities and economy that existed in rural Wake County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The 1916 brick store building is…
White-Duncan House
Date: 1900 316 N. Salem Street, Apex Designated 12/15/2009 Apex National Register Historic District The White-Duncan is the only house on North Salem Street in Apex’s Historic District that faces south toward the downtown commercial district. Family tradition holds that the house’s first owner, Mrs. Martha Ann (Annie) White, felt this location would be…
Bailey-Estes-Dillard House
Date: c. 1864 9020 Mangum Dairy Road, Wake Forest Vicinity Designated 12/7/2009 The house retains its original rural setting and outbuildings from the period of significance of ca. 1864, the house construction date, to 1960, when the house was still in use as a farm under the ownership of Ovid E. Dillard. Overall, the house…
Montague-Jones Farm
Date: c. 1833 5104 Riley Hill Road, Wendell Vicinity Designated 12/1/2008 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Thought to have been built c. 1833 by Dr. Henry W. Montague, this hip-roofed Greek Revival style I-house commands a rural setting marked by a substantial yard with an early boxwood hedge, mature hardwood, coniferous trees, and…
Calvin Wray Lawrence House
Date: c. 1890 8528 Ragan Road, Apex Designated 12/1/2008 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Calvin Lawrence House is an excellent and little-altered example of a typical late-nineteenth century farmhouse. The two-story dwelling displays the triple-A roof that became the most popular roof form for farmhouses built around the turn of the century,…
Dr. John Pullen Hunter House
Date: 1925 311 S. Academy Street, Cary Designated 10/30/2008 Cary National Register Historic District This charming brick bungalow is one of the best-preserved structures in Cary’s National Register Historic District. Dr. John Pullen Hunter, a practicing physician and the son of the Reverend Alsey Dalton Hunter (an early Baptist minister), had this one-and-a-half-story house constructed…
Guess-White-Ogle House
Date: 1880 215 S. Academy Street, Cary Designated 10/30/2008 Cary National Register Historic District Although known locally as the Guess House, this prominent South Academy Street dwelling had many owners throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Railroad “roadmaster” Captain Harrison P. Guess and his wife, Aurelia, purchased the land on which the house sits from…
Samuel Bartley Holleman House
Date: 1913 3424 Avent Ferry Road, New Hill Vicinity Designated 4/7/2008 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Holleman House is a substantial, two-and-a-half-story, Queen Anne-Colonial Revival transition house. Its outbuildings include a wellhouse, pumphouse, engine house, smokehouse, and wash house, all built in 1913. The Holleman House exhibits excellent architectural integrity, retaining all…
Midway Plantation
Date: 1848 1900 Amethyst Ridge Road, Knightdale Vicinity Designated 9/4/2007 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Midway Plantation was constructed in 1848 by Charles Lewis Hinton as wedding gift to his son, Major David Hinton, and his wife, Mary Bodie Carr. The house was named Midway for its location halfway between the two other…
Beaver Dam Plantation
Date: c. 1810 7081 Forestville Road, Knightdale Designated 9/4/2007 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Once the seat of a 4000-acre plantation during the first half of the nineteenth century, Beaver Dam survives as a rare example of the successful plantations throughout eastern Wake County and , Indeed, piedmont North Carolina. Built c.1810, Beaver…
Sunnyside
Date: 1918 210 S. Selma Road, Wendell Designated 8/13/2007 Wendell businessman R. B. Whitley built a large and fashionable brick Craftsman-style house on Selma Road in 1918. Undoubtedly one of the most stylish houses in town in the 1910s and 1920s, the house displays such thoroughly modern Craftsman features as front and side porte cocheres to…
N.G. House Store
Date(s): 1907-1912 221 N. First Avenue, Knightdale Designated 6/4/2007 The N.G. House Store was constructed c. 1907-1912. It is a simply detailed two-story brick commercial building. The original four-over-four wooden sash windows remain, as well as the original interior room configurations and finishes. The storefront at street level was replaced in the 1960s by Robert…
Apex Dome Building
Date: 1960 105 W. Williams Street, Apex Designated 12/5/2006 The Apex Dome was built in 1960 by Raleigh architect Dale Blosser and owner Louis C. Smith of Apex. It is a local adaptation of a geodesic dome. Geodesic domes were invented by Buckminster Fuller and were developed in Raleigh, NC by his company, Synergetics, Inc. and…
M.C. Todd House
Date: 1920 3851 Wendell Boulevard, Wendell Designated 10/9/2006 The M.C. Todd House is particularly noteworthy Craftsman-style bungalow. It has unusual oriental detailing on the porch posts and railings. It has a multi-planed, low pitched rood with broad eaves and exposed rafter ends. It has multiple Craftsman-style windows and a large, glazed front door. The M.C. Todd…
Fuquay Springs Teacherage
Date(s): 1925, 1947 602 E. Academy Street, Fuquay-Varina Designated 8/7/2006 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Fuquay Springs Teacherage is a two-story Craftsman style building constructed as a private residence in 1925 in Fuquay Varina. In 1947, the Wake County Board of Education bought it and operated it as a teacherage until 1968. It…
Trinity House
Date: 1810s 3700 Trenton Road, Raleigh Vicinity Designated 12/7/2005 The Trinity House is the oldest brick residence in Wake County. Although expanded in the late nineteenth century and extensively remodeled in the twentieth, the house retains it steeply pitched gable roof and traditional form with interior chimneys. Associated with the beginnings of Methodism in Wake…
Wayland E. Poole House
Date: 1903 4800 Auburn-Knightdale Road, Garner Vicinity Designated 10/18/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places This remarkably intact Queen Anne cross-gabled frame dwelling built in 1911 by Wayland E. Poole has a wraparound porch with turned posts, corbelled brick chimneys, decorative screen doors and diamond shaped vents. According to family tradition, Poole hand picked…
Cannady-Brogden Farm
Date(s): 1898, 1904 15260 Brogden Road, Creedmoor Vicinity Designated 10/3/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built in 1904 onto an earlier family dwelling, the Cannady-Brogden house is an archetypal example of the very popular triple-A-roofed I-house. Dependencies associated with the property are a corn crib, woodshed, washhouse, covered well, chicken coop, smokehouse,…
Dr. Nathan Blalock House
Date: 1912 6741 Rock Service Station Road, Willow Spring Vicinity Designated 10/3/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built circa 1912 for Dr. Nathan Blalock on the site of an earlier family home, this Colonial Revival home features lavish details. In front of the house sits a miniature triple-A playhouse. Among the outbuildings are several…
Henry and Bettie Knight Farm
Date: c. 1890 7045 Highway 64 East, Knightdale Designated 10/3/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Henry and Bettie Knight Farm is significant as the home place of the people who worked to establish the Town of Knightdale. The farm complex includes a one-and-a-half story vernacular frame farm house, built c. 1890, with several…
Thompson House
Date: 1835 2328 Old NC 98 Highway, Wake Forest Vicinity Designated 5/13/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The antebellum Thompson House in New Light Township is more closely related architecturally to houses of the same period in nearby Wake Forest Township than to the generally modest dwellings in New Light. The house is unusually large…
Henry Bryan Store
Date: c. 1900 107 W. Main Street, Garner Designated 3/2/2005 Garner National Register Historic District Built around 1900, it is reportedly the first brick commercial building in Garner. The triple store contained Bryan’s grocery, furniture, dry goods stores in the early twentieth century. Restored by Magdy and Mones Saad in 2005 for mixed commercial/residential use, the…
Dr. Lawrence Branch Young House
Date: 1903 119 W. Young Street, Rolesville Designated 3/7/2005 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built in 1903 by Rolesville physician Dr. Lawrence Branch Young, this two story house blends Victorian and Classical details, such as a steep pyramidal roof with front and side cross gables, tall corbelled brick chimneys, and a wraparound…
Hartsfield-Perry Farm
Date(s): 1790, 1830s 8401 Mitchell Mill Road, Rolesville Vicinity Designated 10/4/2004 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places An outstanding antebellum farm complex, the Hartsfield-Perry Farm commands a marvelous rural setting. Surrounded by mature oak trees, the two story L-shaped house at the center of the complex was built in 1835, when Dr. Wesley Hartsfield…
Jesse Penny House and Outbuildings
Date: c. 1890 5611 Penny Road, Raleigh Vicinity Designated 10/20/2003 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Jesse Penny House and Outbuildings are a rare, unique, intact example of a rural Wake County farm complex. The house displays the triple-A roof so popular at the time and features a prominent wrap-around verandah embellished with…
Sellars Building
Date: 1908 108-110 N. Salem Street, Apex Designated 8/5/2003 Apex National Register Historic District The Sellars Building, built in 1908, was the first brick commercial building in downtown Apex and influenced the architecture of every significant structure that followed during the almost twenty years economic prosperity for the community. The understated façade is accented with…
Thompson-Utley-Fletcher-Tunstall House
Date: c. 1870 406 N. Elm Street, Apex Designated 8/5/2003 Apex National Register Historic District The Thompson-Utley-Fletcher-Tunstall House was built in 1872 and was home to four of Apex’s most influential community figures. A fine example of a late nineteenth-century “I” house with Victorian details, the house and its outbuildings represent a rare surviving core of an…
Wakefield Barn
Date: 1934 12617 Old Falls of Neuse Road, Wake Forest Vicinity Designated 4/1/2002 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Wakefield Barn is all that remains of a 2,200 acre dairy farm and is one of the most architecturally unique farm buildings in Wake County. Prominent Durham resident John Sprunt Hill began construction of…
Dr. Wiley S. Cozart House
Date: 1927 333 S. Main Street, Fuquay-Varina Designated 12/18/2001 Fuquay Springs National Register Historic District Dr. Wiley S. Cozart, who owned the adjacent Ben-Wiley Hotel constructed this stately residence in 1927. The house combines strong elements of the Colonial Revival style with more subtle elements of the Arts and Crafts style. The property includes…
Maynard-Pearson House
Date: 1872 1101 Olive Chapel Road, Apex Designated 5/1/2001 The Maynard-Pearson House is an excellent example of an “I” House Style, a popular rural style in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Wake County. Built in 1872 it was also home to two prominent area families, including John Phineous Pearson, a member of the NC State…
Walter Aiken House
Date: 1913 313 S. Fuquay Avenue, Fuquay-Varina Designated 12/22/1998 Fuquay Springs National Register Historic District The Walter Aiken House is architecturally significant as a well-preserved and finely detailed Queen Anne / Colonial Revival style-residence. Built in the early twentieth century, the Aiken House is distinguished by its massive size and Queen Anne details such as…
Banks House
Date: c. 1890 101 E. Garner Road, Garner Designated 11/18/1997 Garner National Register Historic District Dr. Braxton Banks purchased a one-story dwelling from George Montague in the 1890’s and soon greatly expanded it to serve as both his home and office. The house is still owned and occupied by family members, although the medical office has…
Oaky Grove Plantation
Date: 1818 5800 Turnipseed Road, Wendell Vicinity Designated 10/20/1997 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built by Thomas Price around 1818 Oaky Grove has been home to generations of the Price, Blake and Doub families, Originally a two-story hall-parlor-plan house, the dwelling was expanded and remodeled in the late nineteenth century. The 28-acre tract,…
Apex Town Hall (Former)
Date: 1911 235-237 N. Salem Street, Apex Designated 10/7/1997 Apex National Register Historic District The focal point of the civic history of Apex, the Town Hall was constructed in 1911-1912. Purpose built to serve numerous functions, the new Town Hall on North Salem Street housed a large vegetable and meat market, a small jail, and a…
Falls of the Neuse Manufacturing Company
Date: 1854 1500 River Mill Drive, Wake Forest Vicinity Designated 7/21/1997 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built in 1854-1855, this massive, three-story granite mill building at the falls of the Neuse River was the center of an impressive milling operation for over a century. During its chief period of significance in 1855-1896 in…
Leslie-Alford-Mims House
Date: 1840 100 Avent Ferry Road, Holly Springs Designated 10/1/1996 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places A prominent local example of the Greek Revival, the main block of the building was constructed by Archibald Leslie in the early 1840s and added to in the late nineteenth century and l940s by the Alford and Mims…
Edenwood
Date: Early 1800s 7620 Old Stage Road, Williams Crossroads Vicinity Designated 8/19/1996 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Edenwood has been a landmark on the Old Stage Road from Charleston to Petersburg since its construction by David Williams or his son Simeon in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Owned by the Williams family…
Bennett Bunn Plantation
Date: 1833 1917 Old Bunn Road, Zebulon Vicinity Designated 8/19/1996 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Bennett Bunn Plantation is a remarkably intact collection of 1830’s outbuildings clustered around an 1833 main house on one-hundred and eighty acres of farmland. The property passed through several generations of the Bunn family until the late…
Garner High School (Former)
Date: 1927 720 W. Garner Road, Garner Designated 1/16/1996 Garner National Register Historic District The former Garner High School was built in the 1920s to serve students in the town and the surrounding rural areas. After a major renovation in the late 1990s, the building currently serves as a performing arts center for the town…
Ballentine-Spence House
Date: 1910 109 E. Spring Street, Fuquay-Varina Designated 11/4/1996 Fuquay Springs National Register Historic District This impressive Colonial Revival residence features a hipped cross-gabled roof, a large wrap around porch featuring tapered Doric columns. The house was built for James “Squire” Ballentine, who was active in town life in his various roles as magistrate,…
J. Beale Johnson House
Date: 1906 6321 Johnson Pond Road, Fuquay-Varina Designated 6/5/1995 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places This grand Neo-Classical house, built around 1906, was designed by prominent Raleigh architect Charles Pearson. With its imposing Doric portico, the residence illustrates the Neoclassical influences of the early Colonial Revival style. The house was home to James Beale…
Apex Union Depot
Date: 1914 220 N. Salem Street, Apex Designated 10/20/1994 Apex National Register Historic District The Apex Depot was designed in 1914 by the staff of the Seaboard Railway in Norfolk Virginia. It is the most sophisticated of Wake County’s few surviving local railroad stations. It currently serves as the office of the Chamber of Commerce.
Perry Farm
Date: 1820 6308 Riley Hill Road, Wendell Vicinity Designated 12/19/1994 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Perry Farm with its 1820 farm house built by John and Nancy Perry, is an intact historic farm complex significant in local African-American social history. Like many former slaves after emancipation, Feggins Perry became a tenant farmer…
Page-Walker Hotel
Date: 1868 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary Designated 12/8/1994 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Page-Walker Hotel was built to accommodate railroad passengers on the North Carolina Railroad and Chatham Railroad. The hotel was constructed in 1868 by Allison Francis Page, founder of Cary, leader in the North Carolina lumber and rail industry…
Ben Wiley Hotel
Date: 1925 331 S. Main Street, Fuquay-Varina Designated 12/5/1994 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Built in 1925 by local physician Wiley Cozart, the Craftsman-style hotel entertained guests from around the state during holidays and special celebrations on Easter Monday and July Fourth. The landmark’s Craftsman influences can be seen in its overhanging and…
Jones-Johnson Farm
Date: 1860 7200 Sunset Lake Road, Fuquay-Varina Designated 5/2/1994 Jones-Johnson-Ballentine National Register Historic District The Jones-Johnson Farm contains a well-preserved collection of dwellings and outbuildings from the late eighteenth century to World War II. The farm features the 1790s log-built Ethelred Jones House, the grand Greek-Revival-turned-Neo-Classical William Wesley Johnson House, and a full compliment of agricultural…
Lane-Bennett House
Date: c. 1760 7408 Ebenezer Church Road, Raleigh Designated 5/1/1990 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The Lane-Bennett House was built in two sections beginning in 1775 by Joseph Lane. In 1863, Joseph Z. & Eugenia Bennett, acquired the house which remained in the Bennett family for the next 100 years. The long-vacant…
NC State Commercial and Agricultural Building
Date: 1928 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh Designated 5/1/1990 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places These buildings are distinguished examples of Mediterranean Revival Architecture—rare to North Carolina—and are among the oldest extant exhibition halls standing in the state. Designed by the local firm of Atwood and Weeks the buildings were the first exhibition…
Yates Mill
Date(s): 1726, 1820, 1854 4620 Lake Wheeler Road, Raleigh Designated 5/1/1990 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places The earliest known Granville land grant associated with Samuel Pearson dates from 1761, and it is on this land that Yates Mill stands. Yates Mill is the last water-powered (grist) mill standing in Wake County, out…
Alpheus Jones House
Date: 1847 6512 Louisburg Road, Raleigh Designated 5/1/1990 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places Alpheus Jones built the house that bears his name in 1847 on 680 acres of land given him by his father, Seth Jones, in 1842. The house is a handsome, unpretentious, representative Greek Revival plantation house with consistent Greek…
Dorton Arena
Date: 1952 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh Designated 1976 Individually Listed National Register of Historic Places
Henry Bryan Store Condominiums, c. 1912, Garner – SOLD!
FOR SALE: ONLY 2 CONDOS LEFT! Modern Living in Historic Downtown Garner The Henry Bryan Store offers residents a unique blend of historic atmosphere and contemporary convenience with four condominiums in a newly renovated mixed-use structure. The 1912 building, located in Garner’s National Register District, provides a peaceful retreat from city life just minutes away…
The Teacherage, c. 1925, Fuquay-Varina – SOLD!
FOR SALE!! NEWLY RENNOVATED OFFICE BUILDING ON .69 ACRES. The Fuquay Springs Teacherage is a two-story Craftsman style building constructed as a private residence in 1925 in Fuquay Varina. In 1947, the Wake County Board of Education bought it and operated it as a teacherage until 1968. It is one of only six known teacherages…