{"nrhp_refnum":"06000790","name":"Raleigh Bonded Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1505 Capital Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.80013923800004,"lon":-78.62795978615407,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A warehouse complex at 1505 Capital Boulevard in the Georgetown area of Raleigh, about a mile from downtown, built from about 1923 to the early 1950s. It includes a two-story reinforced concrete warehouse, an office, a packing building, a weigh station and two later warehouses.","why_significant":"The 1923 warehouse is described as one of the earliest, largest and best-preserved commercial warehouses in Raleigh. Its reinforced concrete walls and heavy timber framing reflect early twentieth-century advances in industrial construction. The complex also served for decades as a main repository for durable goods in the city.","narrative":"Along Capital Boulevard and the Norfolk Southern tracks about a mile north of downtown Raleigh sits a warehouse complex that grew from about 1923 to the early 1950s. N. E. Edgerton built the first warehouse as a cotton store: a 400-by-140-foot, two-story building of reinforced concrete with heavy timber posts and joists. Twelve compartments are stacked in two levels, with the upper ones reached from the higher grade at the rear. Wall surfaces still show the imprint of the wooden form boards, and sprinkler piping and metal fire doors reflect its fireproof design. Edgerton soon added household and business moving and storage, and later built an office, a packing building, a weigh station and two concrete block warehouses. The two later warehouses were heavily altered after 1955 and do not contribute. The complex was recognized for its commercial role and as an early, large example of reinforced concrete warehouse construction, with a significance period of about 1923 to 1956.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1923-1956","architect_builder":"Unknown; first warehouse built about 1923 by N. E. Edgerton","architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions listed as vacant/not in use for the warehouse, with specialty store use also listed; the two later warehouses have been altered for wholesale business tenants.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.73702-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7226/47722629/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000790.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000790/59d6356ef6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000790/59d6356ef6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raleigh_Bonded_Warehouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raleigh_Bonded_Warehouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97001668","name":"Mordecai Place Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/mordecai-place-historic-district-97001668/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722629","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24041080"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/raleigh-bonded-warehouse-06000790/"}