Capehart House

Capehart House
Location N. Blount St., Raleigh, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°56′28″N 78°34′3″W / 35.94111°N 78.56750°W / 35.94111; -78.56750Coordinates: 35°56′28″N 78°34′3″W / 35.94111°N 78.56750°W / 35.94111; -78.56750
Area less than one acre
Built c. 1898 (1898)
Built by Snuggs, Charles P.
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 75001293[1]
Added to NRHP January 17, 1975

The Capehart House is a Queen Anne Style house built circa 1898 by Charles P. Snuggs for Lucy Catherine Capehart and her second husband B.A. Capehart. It is located on 424 North Blount Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The house is one of the best examples of Queen Anne Style that is still standing in Raleigh. The Capehart House has an irregular skyline, made of towers, turrets, dormers, and pediments, and facades which are luxuriously ornamented with colors and textures such as stained glass and decorative wooden design.[2][3][4]

After Capehart's death, H. H. Crocker owned the home until 1947 and it was used for apartments. In 1971 the state bought the house and it is now used as office space for the government. In 1979 the house was moved from its former location at 403 North Wilmington Street to 424 North Blount Street.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Harris, Linda L., et al., An Architectural and Historical Inventory of Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh: City of Raleigh Planning Department and The Raleigh Historic Properties Commission, 1978.
  3. Raleigh: A Capital City A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary- Capehart House
  4. Survey and Planning Unit Staff (December 1974). "Capehart House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.


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