The Bloomsbury Historic District is a neighborhood and national historic district located near downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Located north of the Five Points intersection, the boundaries include Fairview Road, St. Mary's Street, Byrd Street, Sunset Drive, and Whitaker Mill Road. The residential district encompasses 439 contributing buildings and was developed between about 1914 and 1950.
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The Hayes Barton Historic District is a neighborhood located northwest of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Hayes Barton, an upper class neighborhood designed by landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, contains 457 buildings on 1,750 acres. The neighborhood design includes roads fitted to the contours of the land and features several public parks. The Hayes Barton neighborhood is roughly bounded by St. Mary's St., Fairview Rd., W. Roanoke Park Dr., Scales St. and Williamson Dr. In 2002, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood takes its name from Hayes Barton, the house where Sir Walter Raleigh was born.
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Vanguard Park Historic District is a national historic district located between Bloomsbury and Roanoke Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is one of Raleigh's historic Five Points neighborhoods. Like Roanoke Park, its homes reflect the variety of popular architectural styles from the 1920s through the 1950s and are similar to those found in the nearby prestigious suburb of Hayes Barton, but are more modest in scale. Notably, the popular Colonial style was not used due to Vanguard Park's narrower lots.
Construction began in this district along its south and west edges in 1920 with modestly sized American Craftsman bungalows and front-gabled houses. Building slowed considerably during the Depression; homes built in the following years were one- and two-story houses in the Minimal Traditional style. During World War II construction stopped abruptly, only to rebound robustly during the post-war housing shortage. Nearly fifty houses went up in Vanguard Park between 1945 and 1952; Pine Avenue was filled with houses in a single year. Most of these early post-war houses continued to use the Minimal Traditional style.
The Gothic Revival style Westminster Presbyterian Church, formerly North Vanguard Church, is the sole institutional building in Vanguard Park.
Vanguard Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
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Carolina Country Club is a private golf and country club in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1910, it is the oldest country club in Raleigh.
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The Roanoke Park Historic District a national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. It is one of the city's historic Five Points neighborhoods and encompasses 446 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. It is situated southeast of the Five Points intersection of Glenwood Avenue and Fairview and Whitaker Mill Roads. Roanoke Park is composed of six separate plats, filed from 1913 to 1926, and is roughly shaped like a diamond.
Architecturally, houses with American Craftsman detailing, such as bungalows and American Foursquares, constitute the majority of the neighborhood. However, some of the oldest houses in Five Points are located in Roanoke Park, and these homes employ more vernacular styles, including Greek Revival, side-gabled Triple-A cottages, and narrow shotgun houses, particularly along Sunrise Avenue.
Developers created the neighborhood's namesake Roanoke Park subdivision in 1922. Its promoters appealed to white first-time homebuyers and boasted about the suburb's location next to Hayes Barton, an upper-class neighborhood also in Five Points. This section of the neighborhood centers on a park and includes the largest period revival houses.
Roanoke Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as a Historic District.
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Mae and Philip Rothstein House is a historic home located at Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1959, and is a one-story, International Style dwelling measuring 80 feet by 27 feet. It has a low-pitched, gable-front roof, with a deep overhang. It features three-tiered floor-to-ceiling windows.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
It includes notable examples of Tudor Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. In May 2002, Bloomsbury was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Five Points Historic Neighborhoods (Raleigh, North Carolina) List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina