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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…
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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…