{"nrhp_refnum":"97001668","name":"Mordecai Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by N. Blount St., Courtland Dr., Old Wake Forest Rd. and Mordecai Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.79479429850005,"lon":-78.63146343908727,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-02-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about fifteen blocks northeast of downtown Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, made up mostly of single-family frame and brick houses built between about 1916 and 1947, plus the Mordecai House and its historic park.","why_significant":"The district is presented as an excellent example of a pre-suburban-tract neighborhood, with a wide range of early twentieth-century house types on small lots, shaded streets and a pedestrian scale. Its main growth came after the 1922 subdivision of the Mordecai plantation lands. It also includes the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Mordecai House and surviving pieces of the Pilot Mill village.","narrative":"Northeast of downtown Raleigh, this district covers roughly fifteen blocks of small-lot streets lined with frame and brick houses built between about 1916 and 1947. It has 181 contributing buildings and one contributing object, about three quarters of its resources. Craftsman bungalows are the most common type, alongside Cape Cods, Foursquares, I-houses and revival styles including Georgian, Colonial, Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Spanish Mission and Italian Renaissance. The largest houses stand near the Mordecai House, a plantation house of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that now operates as a museum within Mordecai Historic Park. Most of the neighborhood grew after the plantation lands were subdivided in 1922, and the district also keeps the 1924 Barbee School and Pilot Baptist Church, remnants of the Pilot Mill village. Large oaks, dense tree cover and carefully tended gardens give the area a character recalling the 1920s, its main growth period, and show how neighborhoods looked before modern suburban tract development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"James S. Salter (attributed, two Georgian Revival houses); Rose and Linthicam Architects (Boushall House, 1912); Christopher G. Sayre (Barbee School, 1924)","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Classical Revival, Georgian Revival, Spanish Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, Minimal Traditional","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely intact residential neighborhood still in use; the former school is now a neighborhood center, the church still operates, and the Mordecai House is a house museum. The mill housing was razed in 1981.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.893464-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/7225/47722558/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97001668.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722558","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Place_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17022694"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/mordecai-place-historic-district-97001668/"}