{"nrhp_refnum":"70000471","name":"Haywood, Richard B., House","other_names":["Haywood,Marshall,House","See Also:78001978"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"127 E. Edenton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78569966400005,"lon":-78.63778787299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story gauged brick Greek Revival house at 127 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, built in the early 1850s by Dr. Richard B. Haywood, who is said to have been his own architect.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a fine example of Greek Revival architecture in its most restrained form, with beauty derived from proportion and line rather than ornament. It is also tied to Dr. Richard B. Haywood, a physician and civic figure, and to the 1865 surrender of Raleigh, when Union General Frank P. Blair made it his headquarters.","narrative":"Built in the early 1850s at 127 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, this two-story gauged brick house was the home of Dr. Richard B. Haywood, a physician who is said to have designed it himself. Its three-bay front has a one-story porch with fluted Doric columns, a very low hipped roof, and bay windows on each side. Inside is a center-passage plan with an elliptical arch in the hall and a spacious stair rising four flights to the attic. Many original furnishings remain. The house is regarded as a fine example of restrained Greek Revival design, relying on proportion and line rather than decoration, and it may reflect the influence of Asher Benjamin's pattern books. Haywood helped found the North Carolina Medical Society and later served as a railroad director. In April 1865, after Raleigh was surrendered, Union General Frank P. Blair, a former college friend, made the house his headquarters, and Generals Grant and Sherman were entertained there. The house later passed to Haywood's son, Marshall Delancey Haywood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Dr. Richard B. Haywood (said to have been his own architect)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, and used as a private residence; a twentieth-century rear wing was added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.009727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7225/47722580/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000471.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000471/c92bcddba1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000471/c92bcddba1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_B._Haywood_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_B._Haywood_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001380","name":"Oakwood Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/oakwood-historic-district-74001380/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722580","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Haywood_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157259"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/haywood-richard-b-house-70000471/"}