{"nrhp_refnum":"70000472","name":"Lane, Joel, House","other_names":["Wakefield"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"728 W. Hargett St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.777927625000075,"lon":-78.65056148799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half frame house with a gambrel roof at 728 West Hargett Street, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, built before 1760 by Joel Lane and known as \"Wakefield.\" It was moved about 100 yards west to its present site in 1927.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Joel Lane, an early Wake County settler and legislator. It stood at the crossroads hamlet of Bloomsbury, where the state committee of safety and the General Assembly met. Commissioners chose Lane's 1,000-acre tract in 1792 for the new capital, Raleigh.","narrative":"Built before 1760 near what is now Morgan Street and South Boylan Avenue in Raleigh, this story-and-a-half frame house was the home of Joel Lane, one of Wake County's earliest settlers. Lane named it \"Wakefield.\" The main block is three bays wide with a gambrel roof and shed dormers, and inside it has a center passage plan with simple mantels and six-panel doors. The house was the largest dwelling in the crossroads hamlet of Bloomsbury. Lane served in the General Assembly, helped lay out Wake County, and hosted the state committee of safety in 1776 and a General Assembly session in 1781. In 1792 commissioners met at the house and bought Lane's 1,000-acre tract for the state capital, Raleigh. The Boylan family owned the house until 1909. In 1927 the Colonial Dames moved it about 100 yards west to Hargett Street, where it is maintained as a historic site and museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joel Lane (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Good condition; altered and moved. Owned by the Colonial Dames and operated as a historic site and museum, with restoration work ongoing at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.172068-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/7226/47722677/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000472.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000472/79182cff83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000472/79182cff83-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"State Library of North Carolina","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joel_Lane_Museum_House_ncecho_256001.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">State Library of North Carolina</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joel_Lane_Museum_House_ncecho_256001.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722677","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Lane_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6213673"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/lane-joel-house-70000472/"}