{"nrhp_refnum":"85001671","name":"Boylan Heights","other_names":["See Also:Monfort Hall"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Norfolk & Southern RR, Mountford, Martin and Florence Sts. and Dorothea Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.776202708000056,"lon":-78.65082146693254,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Boylan Heights is a residential suburb in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, laid out on a curvilinear plan on a wooded hillside below Montfort Hall and developed by the Greater Raleigh Land Company, with plats dating to 1907.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a largely intact early twentieth-century streetcar-era suburb whose curving streets, service alleys, trees and pedestrian scale remain. It is notable for its wide range of bungalow and cottage forms alongside Colonial Box and Queen Anne/Colonial houses, reflecting the rising middle class. Its relative isolation protected it from major commercial or institutional intrusion.","narrative":"Boylan Heights is a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, planned on a curving grid that follows a wooded slope falling away from Montfort Hall. Boylan Avenue, a wide S-shaped street, serves as its main north-south axis, while service alleys run behind the narrow lots and Boylan Springs Park, later a school site, sits in the southeast. Mature trees, dogwoods and crepe myrtles line the streets. The houses are mostly wood-frame and conservative in design. Tall Queen Anne/Colonial hybrids and two-story Colonial Box houses stand along the principal streets, but the neighborhood is above all a suburb of bungalows, appearing in great variety from large dwellings to small cottages and duplexes. A brick school of 1926 adds contrast in scale and material. The district was listed because it keeps its original street plan, pedestrian scale and housing stock, which reflect the aims of its first residents to find quiet and security in the city. Later infill and siding changes have had only limited effect.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/cottage forms, Colonial Box, and Queen Anne/Colonial Hybrid houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as substantially intact, with a few infill houses from the 1940s and 1950s and some alterations such as aluminum siding; occupied, with an active neighborhood association encouraging resident ownership.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.369927-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/7186/47718633/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001671.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001671/4a8ec381c5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001671/4a8ec381c5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aigrette","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BoylanHeightsHome.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:BoylanHeightsHome.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718633","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boylan_Heights","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4952509"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/boylan-heights-85001671/"}