{"nrhp_refnum":"73001377","name":"Peace College Main Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Peace St. and N end of Wilmington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78931074400003,"lon":-78.63806816699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Peace College Main Building is a four-story brick Greek Revival school building on Peace Street at the north end of Wilmington Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Construction began after the school's 1858 incorporation, and the building was completed after the Civil War.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the building's Greek Revival design, lightened by Italianate and Victorian accents, and its prominent site at the head of Wilmington Street. It was used as a Civil War hospital and then as the Freedmen's Bureau before opening as a school in 1872. It grew into a respected junior college and survives as a vestige of antebellum Raleigh.","narrative":"Peace College Main Building is an eleven-bay, four-story brick Greek Revival structure at the north end of Wilmington Street in Raleigh. A monumental three-bay portico with masonry Doric columns dominates the south facade, and brick pilasters, a wide entablature and pedimented ends complete the design. Inside, a Victorian stair with a massive turned newel winds from the ground level to the top floor. Peace Institute was incorporated in 1858 as a Presbyterian school for young women, named for William Peace, who gave land and $10,000. The building was only partly finished when the Civil War began, and in 1862 it was fitted out as a Confederate hospital. In 1865 it housed the Freedmen's Bureau. The school finally opened in 1872 and developed under Robert Burwell and James Dinwiddie into a junior college. Later additions respect the original building, which remains the visual focus of the campus and a surviving link to antebellum Raleigh.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, with Italianate and Victorian accents","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and altered; occupied and in educational use, with sympathetic twentieth-century additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.793429-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7225/47722574/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001377.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001377/f60562ffa6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001377/f60562ffa6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jmturner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peace-College-20080321.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jmturner</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peace-College-20080321.jpeg"},"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/47722574","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_College_Main_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7157351"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/peace-college-main-building-73001377/"}