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Late Twentieth Century, 1946-1999
A small southern town becomes more cosmopolitan with the influx of professors and professionals. Raleigh's historic properties from the second half of the twentieth century reflect the…
Late Nineteenth Century, 1866-1899
Education, manufacturing, and retail expand in Raleigh's healthy economy at the end of the nineteenth century The exuberance and variety of late-nineteenth-century architecture contrasts with…
Blount Street Historic Corridor
Blount Street has always been a part of Raleigh—it runs straight through the original one-square-mile city plan that William Christmas drew in 1792. Today’s Blount Street extends from just south of…
Historic Method
Method, a southwest Raleigh neighborhood, evolved from a freedman’s village established in the 1870s. It was one of a dozen or so that surrounded the city in the years after Emancipation, when blacks…