Oakwood Historic District

11 Locations | Curated by RHDC

A tour of the Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHL) located in the local Oakwood Historic Overlay District (HOD). Oakwood contains Raleigh’s largest collection of nineteenth-century Victorian-era swellings and its richest diversity of architectural styles overall.

Period of Significance: 1880-1941

The Garland Scott and Toler Moore Tucker House is an excellent, intact example of the Southern Colonial Revival style. With classical detailing and full-height porticos, the style conjures the idea of grand antebellum houses. Garland Tucker and his brothers ran a very successful furniture business…
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A smaller late-nineteenth-century dwelling became the rear wing of this commodious Queen Anne/Colonial Revival transitional house, erected around 1900 by businessman Carey J. Hunter for himself and his family. The complicated massing suggests its Queen Anne roots, as does the corner tower housing…
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Vallie Lewis Henderson was a life-long Oakwood resident and champion. She was a major force in fighting 1970s plans for a highway that would have paved over a broad swath of the neighborhood. In addition to her work fighting the roadway plan, as a founder and active member of the Society for the…
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The Heck-Pool House is one of three distinct landmarks built in a variation of the Second Empire style by Colonel Jonathan M. Heck, a developer in the Oakwood neighborhood. Located on adjacent lots in the Oakwood Historic District, the Heck-Lee, Heck-Pool, and Heck-Wynne houses are differentiated…
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The Heck-Lee House is one of three distinct landmarks built in a variation of the Second Empire style by Colonel Jonathan M. Heck, a developer in the Oakwood neighborhood. Located on adjacent lots in the Oakwood Historic District, the Heck-Lee, Heck-Pool, and Heck-Wynne houses are differentiated by…
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The Heck-Wynne House is one of three distinct landmarks built in a variation of the Second Empire style by Colonel Jonathan M. Heck, a developer in the Oakwood neighborhood. Located on adjacent lots in the Oakwood Historic District, the Heck-Lee, Heck-Pool, and Heck-Wynne houses are differentiated…
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This much-altered house is one of the oldest in Raleigh. In 1851, the dwelling faced south with a side-hall-plan, weather boarded walls, and wood roof shingles. Alterations before 1881 included the Queen Anne stair rail and newel. A 1920s remodel included brick veneer, an expanded front porch,…
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This one-story, wood frame house with a hipped roof is one of the oldest homes in the Oakwood Historic District and is depicted in an 1872 birds-eye view map of the city. Described as both Greek Revival and vernacular, its simple design, in contrast with the neighborhood's ornate Victorian-era…
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James Yadkin Joyner lived here throughout his influential tenure as the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, which lasted from 1902 to 1919. J.Y. Joyner oversaw a maturation of the state’s educational system, focusing on teacher training, longer school terms, and high school instruction.…
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Built by local businessman Joel K. Marshall, this house is among the most intact examples of the elaborately ornamental Queen Anne dwellings that reflect the Victorian era in Raleigh. The interior features excellent examples of early Colonial Revival details. The house was moved from N. Blount…
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Master builder Thomas H. Briggs built this simple but stylish Italianate dwelling for local harness maker Leonidas Wyatt and his wife Cora. The house features molded eaves, projecting bay windows, molded window and door surrounds, and porch brackets. The Wyatts' daughter Cora inherited it in…
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