Captain John S. Pope Farm (Cedar Grove, NC)

The Captain John S. Pope farm is located at 6909 Efland-Cedar Grove Road near Cedar Grove, North Carolina, approximately eight miles northwest of Hillsborough in rural Orange County.  The two-story I-house was constructed around from 1860-1874 and is one of the earliest remaining examples of a rural form that was found throughout Orange County in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.  The house retains its original 73.05-acre tract and a collection of twenty-five outbuildings that date from the c. 1865 through c. 1970.

The Captain John S. Pope Farm is significant under National Register Criterion A for agriculture and under National Register Criterion C for architeture. The farm has remained in continuous operation by the Pope family since at least 1870 and may be been farmed by the McDade family even earlier.  It retains the original 1874 acreage as well as one of the largest collections of extant agricultural outbuildings in Orange County. The farm retains its historic arrangement of fields and forests and buildings dating from 1865 through 1970.

The National Register nomination is scheduled to be reviewed by the National Register Advisory Committee in Raleigh in February. An Orange County Landmark report has also been completed and is under review by the Orange County Historic Preservation Commission.

3200 Hillsborough Street - Wilmont Apartments

The 1926 Wilmont Apartments are located in the West Raleigh Historic District in Raleigh, North Carolina. The apartments were built by Claude Cole Pierce, a contractor from Norfolk, Virginia who erected an identical building (Dolly Madison Apartments) in Greensboro, North Carolina the following year. Pierce contracted with Real Estate entrepreneur Daniel Allen, head of the firm Allen Brothers. The firm held large amounts of land in West Raleigh and Daniel's brother, William Allen, helped to plat the Wilmont Subdivision for which the building is named.

The apartments were home to middle class workers, government employees, and teachers at the North Carolina State College and Meredith College. They are significant as the first apartment building to be erected west of the NCSU campus and for their association with Daniel Allen. The Wilmont Apartments remained under the ownership of the Allen family until Daniel Allen's death in 1929. The building remained occupied through the turn of the twenty-first century, but had fallen into significant disrepair by 2008.

The four-story building houses twenty-four units in three different plans. The building was full renovated in 2009-2010 and now includes fully remodeled kitchens and bathrooms, updated electrical systems, and new HVAC systems. The rehabilitation also included the repair of exterior balconies and canopies as well as the re-finishing of existing doors, woodwork, and hardwood floors. The project received both state and federal Restoration Tax Credits and was designated Raleigh Historic Landmark in the fall of 2010.

http://rhdc.org/Portals/0/In%20the%20Districts/In%20the%20Districts%20Vol.%20IX,%20Issue%201.pdf

1111 N. Mangum Street - Maynard Mangum-Rice Diet House

The Maynard Mangum-Rice Diet House, built in 1911, is a grand two-story Colonial Revival style house in the Old North Durham neighborhood. The house bears connections to both tobacco and dieting, two of Durham’s preeminent twentieth-century industries. It is significant as a cultural resource in Durham for its use as the Rice Diet House from approximately 1948 to 1992. It is also significant for its connection to W. Maynard Mangum, a tobaccoist and partner in Umstead, Mangum, & Co. and Star Warehouse. Additionally, the house retains a high level of architectural integrity and serves as an excellent example of the Colonial Revival style and the work of the local firm of Rose & Rose Architects. The home was listed as a Durham County Local Landmark in May 2010.