{"nrhp_refnum":"08001292","name":"Mount Hope Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1100 Fayetteville St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.76672043700006,"lon":-78.64520652213855,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Landscape Architecture","Art","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipally owned, 34.3-acre African American cemetery at 1100 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, established about 1872; about 29.3 acres are in the nominated district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the first municipal African American cemeteries in North Carolina, with statewide ethnic significance. It also has a locally significant picturesque garden cemetery plan and a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century funerary sculpture, including work by local carvers. It commemorates Raleigh's Black religious leaders, teachers, doctors, businessmen and artisans.","narrative":"Mount Hope Cemetery occupies a hilly site above Rocky Branch on Fayetteville Street, south of downtown Raleigh. The city established it about 1872 for its African American residents after the Black section of City Cemetery filled. The original 11.5 acres follow a picturesque plan of looping drives dividing the grounds into sections and family plots, and later additions through 1952 extend the grounds to about 29.3 nominated acres. Roughly 1,450 monuments remain, though records list over 7,000 burials. They include marble headstones and obelisks, mass-produced cast concrete markers, granite family monuments, and a granite fieldstone mausoleum built in 1902 for W. H. Matthews. Several stones carry the signatures of local carvers such as Columbus Stronach, C. A. Goodwin and the Cooper brothers. Cemetery records burned in the 1930s, so much early history is known mainly from the monuments. The cemetery was listed for its ethnic heritage as an early municipal Black cemetery, its landscape design, and its funerary sculpture, with 1872 to 1952 as its period of significance.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1872-1952","architect_builder":"Monument carvers named include Columbus Stronach, C. A. Goodwin and the Cooper brothers; the cemetery designer is unknown.","architectural_style":"N/A (picturesque garden cemetery design)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery, operated almost exclusively for African Americans; many older monuments are weathered or fragmentary.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.0462-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/7226/47722655/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08001292.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001292/539b832301-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001292/539b832301-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Hope_Cemetery,_Raleigh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Hope_Cemetery,_Raleigh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722655","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hope_Cemetery_(Raleigh,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21187941"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/mount-hope-cemetery-08001292/"}