The Wendell Museum is the culmination of a twenty-year dream. The Wendell Historical Society was formed in 1968 to preserve Wendell history and to educate the public about the history of the town. In 2016 the Society laun...
Mount Hope Cemetery is historically and culturally significant as one of North Carolina’s earliest African American municipal cemeteries. The African American section of Raleigh’s City Cemetery was full by the...
The c. 1905 Queen Anne-style Upchurch-Williams House was built by Golden Almon Upchurch, Jr. and later, occupied by the Williams family for more than a century after his daughter’s marriage to Elder Cary Williams, 1916....
John B. Burwell built the North Carolina Victorian house, then located at 540 North Blount Street, c. 1890. In 1899, former Raleigh mayor William M. Russ, and his wife, Henrietta, purchased the house. In 1903, they move...
The Panther Branch Rosenwald School was constructed in 1925 with money from the Rosenwald Fund. The Rosenwald Fund had been established by Julius Rosenwald, the President of Sears, Roebuck, & Co. – inspired by t...
The Carolina Coach Company was North Carolina’s first intercity carrier to be successful on a large scale. The company’s success was due in part to its participation in an umbrella group under which smaller carriers c...
Miss Sallie, as she is affectionately known, has been a wonderful resource for the Cary community. She shares her deep knowledge of Cary’s history with anyone who asks and graciously provided a fascinating account of he...
The c. 1905 Queen Anne Victorian Alsey Thomas Olive House was the home of a multi-generational family of successful farmers and community leaders in western Wake County. It is one of a dwindling number of surviving intact...
Built in 1917, The Brown House at 1310 Hillsborough Street, was once owned by several generations of the Brown family, founders of the Brown-Wynne Funeral Home. Dating back to 1836, when H. J. Brown founded the H. J. Brow...
Montfort Hall was designed by architect William Percival for William Montfort Boylan in 1858. The house is Italianate style, with classical influences displayed throughout its detailing, symmetry of exterior composition...
