National Register of Historic Places

Mordecai Place Historic District

Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina
Listed
February 4, 1998
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
97001668

About this property

Mordecai Place Historic District () is a historic neighborhood and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The district encompasses 182 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the most architecturally varied of Raleigh's early-20th century suburbs for the white middle-class. Mordecai Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 1998, with a boundary increase in 2000. The land was originally home to a plantation house built by Joel Lane in 1785. About 1824 the house underwent significant alterations that resulted in the Greek Revival dwelling that is today a house museum. Beginning in 1916, land south of the house was sold and subdivided for residential development. When the Mordecai family sold the land, it made multiple stipulations. The neighborhood was named in honor of the plantation, and only whites could live on most of the land (about eighteen acres near the railroad could either be sold for residences for African Americans or used for factories). Mordecai Place was developed between about 1900 to the 1950s and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Spanish Mission Revival, Tudor Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Within the district is the Mordecai Historic Park, which includes the separately listed Mordecai House. Other notable buildings are the former Pilot School and the Pilot Baptist Church (c. 1917). There are also a few examples of a more typically rural vernacular style, the two-story, side-gabled I-house. Towards the middle of the twentieth century, smaller Cape Cods and Minimal Traditional houses were built. List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form Retrieved 2012-06-20 National Register Historic Districts in Raleigh, North Carolina, RHDC

Location

Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina
35.79554, -78.63140

Categories

COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTARCHITECTURE
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Nearby Historic Sites

Mary Elizabeth Hospital
Industrial
0.1 mi
Norburn Terrace
Civil War
0.2 mi
Mordecai House
Colonial
0.2 mi
Pilot Mill
Industrial
0.4 mi
Mordecai Place Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Civil War
0.4 mi

Nearby Battles

Battle of Morrisville NC
1865Civil War
11.5 mi

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Mordecai Place Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 1998.

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Mordecai Place Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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