{"nrhp_refnum":"75001297","name":"Tucker Carriage House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 block of St. Mary","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78200665300005,"lon":-78.65034185499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-02-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story frame carriage house, the last surviving building of a nineteenth-century estate in downtown Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The building is presented as an impressive and rare example of a Queen Anne style outbuilding, with patterned shingled walls and polychromed slate roof in essentially unaltered condition. It is also the only known surviving building connected with Rufus Sylvester Tucker, a leading nineteenth-century Raleigh merchant and public figure.","narrative":"Set on a wooded lot in downtown Raleigh, the Tucker Carriage House is a one-and-a-half story frame building with a steep hip roof, a louvered cupola, and walls of weatherboarding at the first level and imbricated shingles above. Its main entrance is a pair of sliding doors, and the interior holds a six-stall stable beneath a loft with living quarters. The building was the outbuilding of a large Italianate brick mansion built in 1858 for merchant Rufus Sylvester Tucker, a major in the Confederate army and a director of several railroads and banks. The house was demolished in 1964, leaving the carriage house as the only surviving structure from the estate. Its scale, irregular massing, and decorative roof and wall treatments make it a rare surviving example of a Queen Anne outbuilding from the late nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1890","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Fair condition; altered and original site are both marked on the form; the house it served was razed in 1964.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.085945-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7225/47722515/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/75001297.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001297/6636a9f0a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001297/6636a9f0a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tucker_Carriage_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:Tucker_Carriage_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722515","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carriage_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217526"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/tucker-carriage-house-75001297/"}