{"nrhp_refnum":"99001392","name":"Pope, Dr. M.T., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"511 S Wilmington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.77347746300006,"lon":-78.63828230599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, gable-front brick house at 511 S. Wilmington Street in downtown Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, completed by 1900 for Dr. Manassas Thomas Pope, an African American physician and entrepreneur.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be the last surviving structure of a once-thriving middle and professional class African American neighborhood created in Raleigh as racial segregation took hold around 1900. It is significant for its social history and ethnic heritage, representing both segregation and the dignity of those who succeeded despite it.","narrative":"Dr. M.T. Pope built this two-story brick house at 511 S. Wilmington Street in Raleigh by 1900. Pope, born in 1858, was a physician trained at Shaw University's Leonard Medical School, a Charlotte drug company founder, and a Spanish-American War surgeon. The house has a gable end facing the street, common-bond brick walls, two-over-two windows, a colored-glass petal window, and a side-hall plan with original heart-pine woodwork and pocket doors. A porch with a sun parlor was added about 1920, and Pope saw patients in the hall during the 1920s. The house was listed because it is the last surviving building of a middle-class and professional African American neighborhood that formed as segregation spread across Raleigh. Pope built at the edge of the Fourth Ward, near Shaw University, on a street that served as a boundary between Black and white areas. Urban renewal and changing residential patterns later erased the surrounding neighborhood, leaving the house alone amid parking lots.","period_of_significance":"1900-1949","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Other: Two-story, gable-front","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Owned by a charitable trust established by Dr. Pope's daughters; partially restored in 1998 and listed as work in progress, with future use planned as adaptive office space or a museum of African American heritage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.172197-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7226/47722685/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99001392.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001392/08253581a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001392/08253581a6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90001527","name":"East Raleigh-South Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/east-raleigh-south-park-historic-district-90001527/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722685","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_House_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7229176"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/pope-dr-m-t-house-99001392/"}