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The typically spare style features temple-front facades or porches, low-pitched rooflines, and broad proportions in contrast to the narrower, more upright feeling of the earlier Federal style.\r\n\r\nRetail development remained local in nature, serving residents and those traveling to the capital for government business. While no retail buildings and few commercial or industrial structures survive from this era, period descriptions and images show that the blocks of Fayetteville Street immediately south of Union Square were changing from residential in nature to commercial.\r\n\r\nThe railroad also came to Raleigh during this period; the coming of the iron horse was a transformative event in any community. In Raleigh, however, surviving architectural resources related to the railroad are more common in later periods of development.</p>","postscript_text":null,"tour_img":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/6eb4eb9b81d1c27e289d523e71dbe1a1.jpg","items":[{"id":28,"title":"Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House","latitude":35.77229351245488686572571168653666973114013671875,"longitude":-78.6372465946930105928913690149784088134765625,"thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/6eb4eb9b81d1c27e289d523e71dbe1a1.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/6eb4eb9b81d1c27e289d523e71dbe1a1.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"125 East South Street","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":27,"title":"The Boylan Mansion (Montford 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