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East Raleigh-South Park Historic District______Other Names/Site Number NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-001 a (Rev. 8-66) i-.:' r United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places NATIONAL Registration Form REGISTER This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines tor Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering tha requested information. If an item does not appry to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, and are&s of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property__________________________________________________ historic name East Raleigh-South Park Historic District__________________ other names/site number 2, Location_All or part of 48 blocks east and southeast street & number of the central business district N/Al_[not for publication city, town Raleigh N/A[_I vicinity state North Carolina code NC county Wake code 183 zip code 27601 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property S private f~H building(s) Contributing Noncontributing [j|3 public-local fxl district 532 JLZJ3_ buildings [_] public-State CJsite ____ ____ sites [~7] public-Federal I I structure ____ ____ structures I I object ____ ____ objects 532 1 1 6 Total Name of related multiple property listing: Number of contributing resources previously N/A listed in the National Register 3_ 4. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this \_] nomination L _i request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets tne procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my i^ini^ythe propertyyO^ meets LJ does not meet the National Register criteria. L_ISee continuation sheet. Signature of certifying official > I/ Date State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property CU meets didoes not meet the National Register criteria. LJ See continuation sheet. Signature of comrrienting or other official Date State or Federal agency and bureau 5. Nations! Park Service Certification tf !, hereby, certify that this property is: Kj entered in the National Register. ' I_|Seei i continuation sheet. iZl determined eligible for the National Register. [ j See continuation sheet. O determined not eligible for the National Register. [~1 removed from the National Register. O other, (explain:) afure of the Keeper Date of Action 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Domestic/single dwelling, multiple dwelling Doirestic/single dwelling, multiple dwelling Donrestic/hotel ; secondary structure_________ Contnerce/business __________ Commerce/business, warehouse________________ Social/club house_________________~ SociilTnieetlng hall, club house Education/college Education/school, college. (see continuation sheet) 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) foundation hr 1 ck_______________________ Other; Vernacular basic house types walls ___ jungalow/^aftsrnan_________________________ hrick_ "Queen Anne roof _ asphalt Italianate other Italian Renaissance Revival vnod (see continuation sheet) Describe present and historic physical appearance. See continuation sheet 8. Statement of Significance Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: ( I nationally fXJ statewide Q locally Applicable National Register Criteria J3TJA I IB fxlc I ID Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) I JA flB I 1C LJD I IE I JF flG Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates Ethnic Heritage_______________ ca. 1850; ca. 1855; 1866____ Education____________________ ca. 1865-1941____ ________ Community Development__________ _________________ ________ Architecture_________________ ________________________________ Cultural Affiliation ________________________________ N/A_____________________________ Significant Person Architect/Builder N/A ________________________ Edward, Gaston A. , architect Wi 1 cox, Lucius, builder_____ Lightner. Calvin E., builder State_sigpjficance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The East Raleigh-South Park Historic District has statewide significance as the largest historic black neighborhood in Raleigh, the state's capital, and one of the largest and most historic, relatively intact urban black residential and cultural concentrations in North Carolina. Beginning with the Reconstruction period when droves of freedmen from a wide region of the state gravitated to Raleigh, the availability of cheap land and the emergence of three prominent black institutions southeast of the capital -- Second Baptist Church (now Tupper Memorial), Shaw Collegiate Institute (later Shaw University} and the School for the Negro Deaf, Dumb and Blind -- sparked the beginning of the development of the predominantly residential neighborhoods today known as East Raleigh and South Park. Of the three, Shaw became the strongest force in attracting newcomers to the area, particularly South Park after 1900. Initially, saddlebag cottages and shotguns housed the newcomers on lots subdivided from former antebellum plantations located near the original Raleigh city limits by both white and black developers such as Richard B. Haywood and E. A. Johnson, respectively. Remaining throughout the district are remnants of this housing as well as several antebellum houses. Two in particular, the Womble House of ca. 1850 on E. Hargett St. and the Rogers-Bagley-Danieis-Pegues House of ca. 1855 on E. South St., are architecturally important Greek Revival and Greek Revival/ Italianate buildings that recall the district's antecedents as the locale of plantations. As Shaw produced the black leadership that became the community's professional elite -- including doctors, pharmacists, attorneys, educators, ministers and politicians -- southeastern Raleigh's housing stock began to reflect the area's diversification. Beginning in the 1890s a more substantial house type, the side-gable cottage with decorative front gable, emerged as the dominant residence for this community's professional black citizens. This "triple-A" house with a modest Victorian porch as well as hipped-roof cottages, eclectic Victorian dwellings, bungalows and Cxl See continuation sheet 9. Major Bibliographical References [X]See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NFS): N/A I i preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested QT] State historic preservation office [_| previously listed in the National Register CD Other State agency JH] previously determined eligible by the National Register ED Federal agency [__] designated a National Historic Landmark I I Local government CD recorded by Hiistoric American Buildings University Survey * _______________________________________ ther i_(re-corded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record # 10. ^geographical Data _____ ____ Acreage of property Approximately TWacres UTM References A I 1-7 i 17*1 412 0,01 (3i9|6il|9 t Q.OI B I1.7I I7|1,4|6..3..Q i 3, 91 6; li 9i 0 LQ! Zone Eastir.o Northing Zone Easting Northing C LLJL ;7 .1 4^6 5.Q! j 3 . 91 6 ; 11 6, 3 0 D Ui7! J7|1.3I_9! 4 { 0! 13,i 91 6; 0' li 9, 0! E 17: 71361C/3S60200 F 12: 713170/3960940 I_I See continuation sheet VerbaJ Boundary Description The boundary of the East: Raleigh-South Park Historic District appears on the plar.in:etric map included with the nomination at a scale of i inch = 200 feet. continuation sheet Bouncary Justificscion The boundary encompasses the highest concentration of relatively intact architecturally and historically significant resources in the East: Raleigh and South Park areas of Raleigh. Included are residential, civic and corr-.ercial buildings which characterize the district's historic development See continuation sheet 11. Form Preoatred Bv nameAitie 511ic~t K. Wricrht / Joyce Marie Mitchell, Bruce Kalk, and Terri Myers, consultants orgamzatk5n Palaich Historic Properties Corrmission, Inc. date April 1990____________________ street & number P.O. Pox 829_________________________ telephone 919/832-7238________________ city or to-A-n FaJLeigh_______________________________ state NC_________ zip code _^76G2 . NP8 Form 10-900^ 0MB Appro** Wo, 102+0016 (»«6) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Sheet East Raleigh-South Park Historic District, Wake County Section number ,... L,,.,. Page Function or use (continued) Historic Functions Religion/religious structure Funerary/mortuary Health care/hospital Current Functions Religion/religious structure Funerary/mortuary Recreation and Culture/sports facility Landscape/park Health Care/ clinic NpS Form 10-900-a O^g /Approya/ Wo. J024-OOJ8 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Sheet East
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