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Residential architecture from the time includes popular Victorian styles like the Queen Anne, Second Empire, and Italianate and reflects a move toward nationally popular architectural styles.\r\n\r\nManufacturing and higher education expanded the identity of what had long been a government town. The schools that became Saint Augustine's College, Shaw University, and the North Carolina State University were established in this period. The textile mills founded on the edge of town in this period also became engines for the thriving economy. The prosperity experienced in Raleigh in the late nineteenth century set the stage for the sustained growth that characterized Raleigh in the twentieth century.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/a86613103f06feaa6befb631d230766e.jpg","items":[{"id":191,"title":"Mount Hope Cemetery","latitude":35.76435566729200132840560399927198886871337890625,"longitude":-78.645621942269002602188265882432460784912109375,"thumbnail":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/square_thumbnails/a86613103f06feaa6befb631d230766e.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/files/fullsize/a86613103f06feaa6befb631d230766e.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"1120 Fayetteville Street","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":36,"title":"Caraleigh 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