- Title
- North Carolina Museum of History Project: test excavations in an urban setting
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- Date
- 1989
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- Creator
- ["Abbott, Lawrence E."]
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- Place
- ["Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina Museum of History Project: test excavations in an urban setting
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thirteen structures were located on lot 210. Seven of these buildings were
domiciles, and the balance were outbuildings of some sort. The historic
record is unclear as to the ownership of the Faison house between 1898 and
1909. A 1903 map shows the Faison house listed as a domicile, although the
configuration had changed significantly. The two wings of the original
Badger house had been removed, the back porch was enclosed, a porch added
to the front and at least three rooms had been appended to the rear of the
structure. The Faison house in its 1903 configuration was to pass back and
forth from private residence to boarding house until 1965 when it was
acquired by the state government for office space. The structure was torn
down with the Vass house in 1971.
Lot 226 was located north of lot 210 and was developed much later. It
was not until 1817 that Moses Mordecai improved the property with a
structure. The exact location on the property and the configuration of the
structure is unknown, but by 1834 and after several additional owners,
there was a spacious dwelling owned by Fabius J. Haywood, the son of John
Haywood, fronting Halifax Street. By 1838 Haywood had converted the
structure into a private school and an 1847 map shows two structures on lot
226. One structure was that of the Haywood house, the other was a
rectangular building located in the northeast corner of the lot. Sometime
during the 1870's the structure in the northeast corner was removed and a
large structure belonging to Fabius J. Haywood, Jr. was built in the
northwest corner of the lot. Maps dating to 1881 and 1882 show between 6-8
structures on the lot. By 1896 at least 16 structures were located there.
By 1909 both lots 226 and 210 consisted of domiciles with a total of six
located along Wilmington Street, four facing Halifax street and three
facing Edenton. That distribution of houses remained unchanged except for
relocation and removal of various outbuildings and the construction of the
YMCA on the southeast corner of the study area in 1912.
By 1950 the study area was used for an assortment of activities
including private residences, rental and boarding houses, commercial
property, and governmental offices. Abandonment of the area was nearly
complete in 1970 and by 1971 all but one structure had been demolished. In
1972 the study area was graded and converted into a gravel parking lot,
which remained unpaved until 1976 and the construction of the Bicentennial
Mall. Presently, the study area consists of a substantial asphalt parking
lot flanked on the west by the Bicentennial Mall. One structure remains in
the northeast corner of the property and houses the North Carolina Ports
Authority and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The history of lots 210 and 226 is one of gradual transformation of
land usage from residential to public use. Early in the history of the
study area lots were used by the wealthy and influential as residential
property. Presently the property is used by the public for parking. As
will be discussed in the following chapters, this transformation over time
mirrors a set of processes that are linked to the urbanization phenomenon
in general and the particular history of the development of Raleigh in
specific terms.
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