{"nrhp_refnum":"08000939","name":"Curtis, William A., House","other_names":["Villa Florenza"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1415 Poole Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.780832032000035,"lon":-78.62725737799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay frame house with a pyramidal roof at 1415 Poole Road in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of southeast Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built about 1915 for the Curtis family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the largest and most stylish dwellings built for an African American family in Raleigh during the Jim Crow era, with its Late Victorian and Neoclassical Revival design and largely intact interior. It is regarded as one of the most significant African American dwellings in the city from the first quarter of the twentieth century.","narrative":"Built about 1915 on Poole Road in Raleigh's Lincoln Park subdivision, this two-story frame house has a pyramidal roof, a pedimented east wing, a wraparound porch with classical columns, and bays with leaded glass transoms. It was built by William A. Curtis, who worked as a drayman, produce vendor and laundry worker, together with his mother Jennie and siblings. The family home remained in the Curtis family for three generations. Its interior is largely original, including a Neoclassical Revival staircase, pocket doors, and a set of mantels with overmantels. The house stands out as the largest dwelling in Lincoln Park on the 1949 Sanborn map. It is listed for its architectural distinction as a stylish, well-preserved dwelling built by an African American family in early twentieth-century Raleigh. The exterior has deteriorated in recent years, and porch columns have been removed for safekeeping.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Neoclassical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Unoccupied since 1997 with exterior deterioration, broken and missing window panes, and plywood-covered first-story windows; the house is described as structurally sound.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.665482-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7224/47722475/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000939.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000939/68224cfd93-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000939/68224cfd93-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Pithon314","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_A_Curtis_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pithon314</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_A_Curtis_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722475","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Curtis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20065137"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/curtis-william-a-house-08000939/"}