{"nrhp_refnum":"74001380","name":"Oakwood Historic District","other_names":["See Also:73001374","Oakwood Historic District (Boundary Increa"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by N. Boundary, Person, Jones, and Linden Sts., and Oakwood Cemetery","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.787503711000056,"lon":-78.63870870194992,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twenty-block Victorian residential neighborhood on the edge of Raleigh's inner city in Wake County, North Carolina, bounded on the east by Oakwood Cemetery. Its houses were built mainly between the Civil War and 1914.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Oakwood the only intact nineteenth-century neighborhood remaining in Raleigh. Its wide range of Victorian styles reflects the middle-class tastes of the business and political leaders who built there, and the work of local architects and builders such as Thomas H. Briggs. Its economic decline in the twentieth century preserved it until revitalization began in 1971.","narrative":"Oakwood is a twenty-block residential neighborhood on the edge of Raleigh's inner city, made up of cottages and larger houses with steep slate roofs, broad verandas and small front yards. Most were built between the Civil War and 1914, and styles range from late Greek Revival and Second Empire to Queen Anne and Neo-Classical Revival. The district is bordered on the east by Oakwood Cemetery, established in 1869 and landscaped in the picturesque park tradition. The area was developed by speculators such as Jonathan McGee Heck and Richard Stanhope Pullen, with contractor Thomas H. Briggs building many of the houses. Residents included railroad builders, merchants, legislators and educators. After World War I, many large homes became boarding or apartment houses, and the area faced possible urban renewal by 1970. Rehabilitation that began in 1970-1971 revived it. It was listed as the only intact nineteenth-century neighborhood left in Raleigh, a record of Southern suburban life in the late 1800s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Thomas H. Briggs (local contractor); R. S. Pullen (builder of \"Pullentown\" brick houses); other local architect-builders named include William Percival, G. S. W. Appleget and W. J. Hicks","architectural_style":"Victorian styles including late Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Eastlake, sawnwork vernacular and Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residences; about twenty-five houses were in various stages of renovation in 1974, and a proposed freeway threatened to cut through the neighborhood.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.775313-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7225/47722527/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/74001380.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001380/55b4d70da4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001380/55b4d70da4-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Mx. Granger","credit_html":"Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakwood_Historic_District_-_corner_of_Person_St_and_Jones_St.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722527","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Oakwood","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5773585"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/oakwood-historic-district-74001380/"}