{"nrhp_refnum":"78001979","name":"Montford Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"308 Boylan Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.77651778500007,"lon":-78.65083526799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Montford Hall is a two-story, red brick Italianate mansion on Boylan Avenue in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858 for William Montford Boylan and designed by architect William Percival.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is the only surviving Percival house in Raleigh and one of two in the state, and the only known surviving antebellum building by the firm of Briggs and Dodd. It is presented as the lone survivor of the suburban estates that surrounded antebellum Raleigh. Its classical and Italianate detailing, including the Corinthian rotunda and stained glass oculus, is cited as embodying the eclecticism of the late 1850s.","narrative":"Built in 1858 in Raleigh's Boylan Heights area, Montford Hall is a red brick Italianate mansion with a low hipped roof, a polygonal cupola and bracketed eaves. The house was designed by William Percival for William Montford Boylan, son of the publisher William Boylan, and was constructed by the local firm of Briggs and Dodd. Its centre hall contains a rotunda supported by four Corinthian columns, and the interior plan follows classical formulae. Percival's other Raleigh mansions were demolished in the twentieth century, so Montford Hall is the only surviving example of his work in the city and one of two in North Carolina. It also survives as the sole remnant of the large suburban estates built on the edges of antebellum Raleigh. Frame additions and an early twentieth-century portico altered the facade, but much of the original fabric remains behind them, and the house is now being restored.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"William Percival (architect); Briggs & Dodd (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Recently purchased by a family who have begun restoring the house and removing additions; the Boylan Heights Baptist Church previously owned and renovated it for institutional use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.526818-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/7224/47722471/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/78001979.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001979/f1425f547c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001979/f1425f547c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aigrette","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montfort_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Aigrette</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:Montfort_Hall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85001671","name":"Boylan Heights","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/boylan-heights-85001671/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722471","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montfort_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6905569"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/montford-hall-78001979/"}