{"nrhp_refnum":"75001293","name":"Capehart House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N. Blount St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.94142965800006,"lon":-78.56726532199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-01-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Queen Anne style house at 403 North Wilmington Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, built evidently in 1898 by contractor Charles P. Snuggs for Lucy Catherine Capehart and her husband B. A. Capehart.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it, with the exception of the Executive Mansion, Raleigh's finest surviving example of the Queen Anne style. Its irregular skyline of towers, turrets, dormers and pediments, and its mix of pressed brick, rough stone, shingles, stained glass and wooden ornament, create a building of dramatic impact. The interior has a notable stair hall and varied mantels.","narrative":"Built evidently in 1898 at 403 North Wilmington Street in Raleigh, this tan pressed-brick house is described as one of the city's finest surviving Queen Anne buildings, behind only the Executive Mansion. Contractor Charles P. Snuggs built it for Lucy Catherine Capehart, daughter of the prominent lawyer B. F. Moore, and her husband B. A. Capehart. The exterior combines a hip-roofed block with gabled wings, rounded towers, a patterned slate roof, shingled gables and a diagonal stone porte cochere. Inside, an L-shaped stair hall has a coffered ceiling, Moorish and rampant wooden arches and a massive brick fireplace, and the first-floor rooms have distinct mantels. Mr. Capehart died in 1899, and his widow lived there until her death in 1908. The house later belonged to a sheriff's family, became apartments in 1947, and housed state offices from 1971. At the time of listing it faced possible demolition for the state government mall.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":"Charles P. Snuggs, contractor","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the State of North Carolina and used as offices for the State Personnel Annex since 1971; the form says it is in danger of demolition for expansion of the state government mall.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.378551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7224/47722485/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/75001293.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001293/fd9610d219-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001293/fd9610d219-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jmturner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capehart-House-20080321.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jmturner</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capehart-House-20080321.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722485","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capehart_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5035220"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/capehart-house-75001293/"}