Glenwood-Brooklyn Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)

Raleigh's Glenwood and Brooklyn neighborhoods were laid out in 1905 to 1907 by the Glenwood Land Company, incorporated by James H. Pou, Albert Murray and William J. Andrews as street car suburbs north and west of downtown. The district holds mainly frame houses of one, one-and-a-half and two stories, most with weatherboard or wood-shingle siding, gabled roofs and porches, along with outbuildings, apartment buildings, small commercial buildings, a church and the Richard H. Lewis School. Its houses show a range of early-twentieth-century types and styles, including Victorian-influenced vernacular forms, Craftsman bungalows and Colonial Revival work. Lots were sold from 1906 onward, and the area reflects the city's growth and its middle-class and working-class population, including many railroad employees. Its development and architecture are the basis for listing, and the period of significance runs to 1951, when Modernist and Ranch styles began to appear.