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A tour of the Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHL) located in the local Oakwood Historic Overlay District (HOD). Oakwood contains Raleigh’s largest collection of nineteenth-century Victorian-era swellings…

Method, a southwest Raleigh neighborhood, evolved from a freedman’s village established in the 1870s. It was one of a dozen or so that surrounded the city in the years after Emancipation, when blacks…

A small southern town becomes more cosmopolitan with the influx of professors and professionals. Raleigh's historic properties from the second half of the twentieth century reflect the…

A tour of the Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHL) located in the local Moore Square Historic Overlay District (HOD). Moore Square Historic District is home to Raleigh’s “Black Main Street” and the City…

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Raleigh Historic is a free mobile app which curates Raleigh's landscape through the use of geo-located historical text and archival images. As the site develops, archival film, oral history and other audio, as well as short documentary videos will be included. Raleigh Historic is available in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Android App Market.