{"nrhp_refnum":"90001527","name":"East Raleigh-South Park Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House","Estey Hall","Mason"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Bragg, East, E. Lenoir, Alston, Camden, Hargett, Swain, Davis, and S. Blount Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.77024680200003,"lon":-78.63913053099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Black","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A largely residential historic district of 708 resources (532 contributing) lying east and south of downtown Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Most buildings date from about 1900 to 1940, with roughly twenty percent from the nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The district is a collection of modest working-class housing, mostly vernacular types such as shotguns, Triple A houses and side-gabled houses. It also includes homes of the early twentieth-century black middle class. The excerpt does not give the nomination's formal significance statement, so the reasons rest on the description of its housing types and the neighborhood's history.","narrative":"East and southeast of downtown Raleigh lies a neighborhood of 708 buildings, 532 of them contributing, made up mostly of modest one- and two-story frame houses. Most were built between about 1900 and 1940, though roughly a fifth date to the nineteenth century. The area includes the original city grid, the South Park subdivision begun in 1907, and parts of the post-Civil War neighborhoods of Smith-Haywood and St. Petersburg. Vernacular house types dominate: shotguns, Triple A houses, side-gabled and hipped-roof cottages, and a few I-houses, row houses and houses with attached groceries. Many carry restrained Folk Victorian or Craftsman detailing. Raleigh's longest surviving block of shotgun houses, eleven in all, stands on South Bloodworth Street. The district became predominantly Black, and while rental housing for working people prevails, it also holds the homes of the early twentieth-century Black middle class, including a pharmacist, a funeral director and a postal carrier. Churches, institutions and Shaw University's historic campus are also within it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"American Box and Veneer Company (built many South Park houses); Calvin E. Lightner (black builder who remodelled a church); Lucius Wilcox (builder of one house)","architectural_style":"Vernacular basic house types; Bungalow/Craftsman; Queen Anne; Italianate; Italian Renaissance Revival; Gothic Revival; Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Commercial Style; Modern/Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Predominantly residential and in use, with many rental houses; some areas have lost older houses to demolition and new construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.960357-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7226/47722657/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90001527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001527/61fbbd71ce-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001527/61fbbd71ce-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jayron32.talk.contribs","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Hall_Shaw_Univ.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jayron32.talk.contribs</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:Leonard_Hall_Shaw_Univ.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722657","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Raleigh%E2%80%93South_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5329216"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/east-raleigh-south-park-historic-district-90001527/"}