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Completed (with two stories) in 1862 on Halifax St., the building was home to one of the earliest North Carolina railroads, the Raleigh & Gaston, eventually incorporated into the 20th century's Seaboard Coast Line. Acquired by the state in the 1970s for use as an office building and moved to its present location on N. Salisbury St.
The house is also a Raleigh Historic Landmark. [2] [3] George Matsumoto, a professor teaching architectural classes at North Carolina State University, designed the Ritcher House in 1951 along with Henry Kamphoefner. The house was built on a modest budget and is an example of modular constructivism and timber framing. [4]
Madonna Acres Historic District is a historic post-World War II neighborhood and national historic district located 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles east of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.The district encompasses 36 contributing buildings in Raleigh's first subdivision developed by an African American for African Americans.
The Hayes Barton Historic District is a neighborhood located northwest of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.Hayes Barton, an upper class neighborhood designed by landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, contains 457 buildings on 1,750 acres (7.1 km 2).
Mordecai Place Historic District (/ m ɔː r d ə ˈ k i /) [2] is a historic neighborhood and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina.The district encompasses 182 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the most architecturally varied of Raleigh's early-20th century suburbs for the white middle-class.
U.S. President Andrew Johnson's birthplace and childhood home is located in the park. The Mordecai House (also called the Mordecai Plantation or Mordecai Mansion), built in 1785, is a registered historical landmark and museum in Raleigh, North Carolina that is the centerpiece of Mordecai Historic Park, adjacent to the Historic Oakwood neighborhood. [2]
In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).
19th century homestead of a traveling physician, Dr. Edward Hiram Ward (August 1829 – June 1896) was the son of Hiram Ward (1794–1842) and Sara Hackney (1806–1848) and lived in Chatham County, North Carolina. Private residence, outdoor wedding and event location venue - Ward's Hollow. 54: Whitehead-Fogleman Farm: July 5, 1985