{"nrhp_refnum":"85001673","name":"Cameron Park (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["Forest Park Historic District","Survey site number WA0194"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Clark Ave., West Peace and Saint Mary's Sts., College Pl., Hillsborough St. and Oberlin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78651942150003,"lon":-78.65469225419415,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cameron Park is a residential historic district in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, platted by the Hunter-Parker Realty Company in 1910 on former Cameron family land, with a later portion developed from about 1927. It includes parks within ravines, houses, and two schools.","why_significant":"The form presents Cameron Park as a well-preserved early 20th century neighborhood notable for its varied topography, park-centered street plan and consistent housing types such as the Colonial Box and the bungalow. Two architecturally distinguished schools, Wiley School and Needham Broughton High School, reinforced its upper-middle-class character. The text also describes its decline and rehabilitation. The documentation of significance is only partly included in the supplied text.","narrative":"Cameron Park is a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, laid out in 1910 by the Hunter-Parker Realty Company on land taken from the Cameron family holdings. Its most distinctive feature is the terrain: three ravines cut through a gently sloping site, and the street plan wraps around them, turning them into parks such as Brown Park and Green Park. Houses built mostly between about 1910 and the 1930s include two-story Colonial Box types, many bungalows, and scattered Tudor Revival, Spanish-influenced and Picturesque designs. A triangular reserved section was developed from 1927 with smaller, brick-veneered houses. Two schools anchor the district: Wiley School, opened in 1926 and designed by C. Gadsen Sayre, and Needham Broughton High School, opened in 1929 and designed by William H. Deitrick in the Romanesque Revival style. After decades of pressure from nearby university growth, rental conversions and commercial development, the neighborhood was rehabilitated by new residents. The listing recognizes its planned landscape and its intact collection of period architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"C. Gadsen Sayre (Wiley School); William H. Deitrick (Needham Broughton High School)","architectural_style":"Predominantly Colonial Revival 'Box' houses and bungalows, with Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, Spanish/Mission and Picturesque examples; Needham Broughton is Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied, in excellent to fair condition, with a mix of altered and unaltered buildings. Present uses are park and private residence, and the form describes houses restored by new residents.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.524185-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7186/47718605/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001673.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001673/aac0182604-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001673/aac0182604-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawthorne_northwest_of_Benehan,_Cameron_Park.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawthorne_northwest_of_Benehan,_Cameron_Park.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001380","name":"Oakwood Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/oakwood-historic-district-74001380/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718605","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5026332"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/cameron-park-additional-documentation-85001673/"}