{"id":18,"ordinal":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:31:24","content_modified":"2026-08-19 21:28:45","featured":0,"title":"Education Related Buildings","creator":"RHDC","description":"<p>Raleigh is known for its many educational institutions, so it is no surprise that the city has a good number of landmark properties reflecting that history. \r\n\r\nThe oldest are two buildings at St. Mary’s School on Hillsborough Street. East and West Rock date to the 1830s when Episcopalians founded a school for boys. Although it failed, a girls’ school took over the campus and St. Mary’s has now endured since 1842. Other iconic buildings on campus include the 1839 Smedes Hall, the excellent Carpenter Gothic Chapel dating to 1855, and the 1906 Neoclassical Eliza Battle Pittman Auditorium. The 1861 Greek Revival Peace College Main Building at William Peace University also represents this period. \r\n\r\nDuring the post-Civil War era, a number of institutions offered instruction to African Americans. In 1865, Henry Martin Tupper, a Baptist minister from Massachusetts, started a church and began teaching school to the city’s burgeoning population of formerly enslaved people. Tupper’s instructional work grew into Shaw University. The 1912 Tupper Memorial Baptist Church is named in his honor and stands at the location of his original church and school building. St. Augustine’s College, established in 1867, and Shaw taught and trained prospective teachers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and other professionals. Landmark buildings on Shaw’s campus include the 1874 Estey Hall, the 1881 Leonard Medical School and the 1912 Leonard Medical Hospital. The 1895 Chapel and the ruin of the 1909 St. Agnes Hospital at St. Augustine’s represent its early history. \r\n\r\nWest of Raleigh’s nineteenth-century city limits—but well within the city today—were the freedmen’s villages of Oberlin and Method. Important schools in those communities were Latta University and the Berry O’Kelly School, respectively. The Latta House and University Site are landmarked though no buildings remain, although archaeologists studied the site after the house burned in 2007. Surviving school buildings at the Berry O’Kelly campus in Method date to the twentieth century: the 1926 Agricultural Building and the 1959 Gymnasium both speak to the longevity of a school founded in 1894.  \r\n\r\nThe state opened educational institutions in nineteenth-century Raleigh as well. The 1898 North Carolina School for the Blind and Deaf Dormitory on West Jones Street was part of a state school that opened in 1849. The Agriculture Experiment Station Cottage on Vanderbilt Avenue just north of NC State was built in 1886, when surrounding land was a working farm. It soon became part of North Carolina State College (later University), established in 1887. Two years later, in 1889, State’s first building, Holladay Hall was erected. \r\n\r\nSegregation persisted in the twentieth century and several schools reflect that history. Landmarked historically African American schools include the 1922 St. Matthews School, built with Rosenwald funds; the 1924 Washington Graded and High School, started with Northern missionary aid and acquired by the city by the 1880s; and St. Monica’s, run by the Catholic diocese. Raleigh’s grandest public school for white students was Broughton High School, which opened in 1929 in a building designed by prominent Raleigh architect William Henley Deitrick. The 1916 Murphey School became the first integrated public school in Raleigh in 1960. Full integration of Raleigh’s public schools did not occur until 1971. \r\n\r\nConstruction of these landmarked buildings in Raleigh spans nearly a hundred years. These schools represent striking variety—in scale, materials, style, and location. In both their architectural and historical details, they reveal much about the history of the city and the education of its people.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/1cf5d9de3fcfd605843c5fcf6d122a70.jpg","items":[{"id":97,"title":"Murphey School","latitude":35.78575289999999853307599551044404506683349609375,"longitude":-78.6346753999999918960384093225002288818359375,"thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/1cf5d9de3fcfd605843c5fcf6d122a70.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/1cf5d9de3fcfd605843c5fcf6d122a70.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"433 North Person Street","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":89,"title":"Needham B. 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