Cameron Park (Additional Documentation)

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.