Category: History

  • Community Conversation featuring East CAC neighborhoods

    Celebrating Ordinary Architecture Raleigh has many post-WWII neighborhoods of modest colonial and ranch houses like Rochester Heights or Cameron Village. What makes these houses and neighborhoods special? What techniques are there for updating these smaller, mid-century architectural gems? To find out, please join the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission (RHDC) and Preservation North Carolina for a…

  • The history of Lions Park

    The following was excerpted from the book A Brief History of The Raleigh Host Lions Club (Revised Edition): Fifty-Four Years of Community Service 1922-1976. Raleigh Lions City Park By W. Paul Lyman The wave of juvenile delinquency which followed World War II brought about a community awareness that the time had come for Raleigh to…