{"nrhp_refnum":"10001113","name":"Longview Gardens Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded roughly by King Charles Rd., Poole Rd., Donald Ross Dr., Albemarle Ave., Longview Lake Dr., and New Bern Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.77825529300006,"lon":-78.59295753781493,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Longview Gardens is a large residential subdivision about one and one-half miles east of the State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina, on both sides of New Bern Avenue. It was planned in 1938 (revised 1940) and developed in three phases, and includes the Raleigh Country Club golf course.","why_significant":"The district is described as a remarkably intact planned subdivision that keeps its original street plan, open spaces, curbs and lack of sidewalks. It holds a good collection of Colonial and Tudor Revival houses, Ranches and Split Levels from about 1938 to 1965. The country club course was designed by Donald Ross in 1948, and developer Clarence Poe shaped the landscape.","narrative":"Longview Gardens is a large residential subdivision east of downtown Raleigh, laid out on both sides of New Bern Avenue, whose wide median is planted with crepe myrtles. The first phase followed the Gillette-Wooten plan of 1938, revised in 1940. Later phases added the Raleigh Country Club and its Donald Ross-designed eighteen-hole golf course in 1948-1949 and the Golf Course Drive section in 1959. Curving streets, generous lots of up to several acres, small parks, Sycamore Circle and the absence of sidewalks give the area a distinct character. Houses range from small Colonial and Tudor Revival homes of the late 1930s and 1940s to the Ranches and Split Levels that dominated from the late 1940s to 1965. Two churches and the golf course add to the mix. Of 294 resources, 194 contribute to the district's character. The layout, open spaces and most houses remain largely unchanged, with window replacements and out-of-scale porch additions being the most common alterations.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1938-1965","architect_builder":"Gillette-Wooten (original plan); Donald Ross (golf course); developer Clarence Poe; Ed K. Richards and Smith-Douglass Building Corporation (speculative houses)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement; Colonial Revival; French Renaissance revival; Ranch; Split Level; Period Cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district is described as remarkably intact. Houses and two churches remain in use, and the country club is still operating. The Longview Shopping Center is excluded from the boundary because of extensive remodeling.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.464811-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7186/47718657/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10001113.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718657","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longview_Gardens_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6674453"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/longview-gardens-historic-district-additional-documentation-10001113/"}