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Historic district in North Carolina, United States

Capitol Area Historic District

The Capitol Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina.

Capitol Area Historic District
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The place

The Capitol Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings and was developed after 1792. The district includes notable examples of Classical Revival and Late Gothic Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the following separately listed buildings:Agriculture Building, at 2 W. Edenton St.

Church of the Good Shepherd at 121 Hillsborough St

Christ Episcopal Church, at 120 E. Edenton St.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Capitol Area Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    North Carolina State University

    North Carolina State University is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1887 by the North Carolina General Assembly as an agricultural and mechanical college, it is the largest university in the Carolinas and a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system.

    3.1 km · public research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    North Carolina State Capitol

    The North Carolina State Capitol is the former seat of the legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina which housed all of the state's government until 1888. The Supreme Court and State Library moved into a separate building in 1888, and the General Assembly moved into the State Legislative Building in 1963.

    200 m · state capitol building of the U.S. state of North Carolina · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Diocese of Raleigh

    The Diocese of Raleigh is a diocese of the Catholic Church that covers eastern North Carolina in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

    3.2 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral, Raleigh

    Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral that is the seat of the Diocese of Raleigh in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States. It replaced Sacred Heart Cathedral.

    3 km · church in North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

    The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is a natural history museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The museum is the oldest in the state, and the largest natural history museum in the Southeastern United States.

    300 m · North Carolina’s state museum for science and nature, located in Raleigh · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sacred Heart Cathedral

    Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church located on Hillsborough Street in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The church served as the cathedral of the Diocese of Raleigh from 1924 to 2017.

    400 m · cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Shaw University

    Shaw University is a private historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded on December 1, 1865, Shaw University is the oldest HBCU to begin offering courses in the Southern United States.

    1 km · American university · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Pullen Park

    Pullen Park is a 66.4-acre public park immediately west of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It is located on Ashe Avenue and is adjacent to the Main and Centennial campuses of North Carolina State University, covering an area between Western Boulevard and historic Hillsborough Street.

    2.4 km · park in North Carolina, United States of America, United States of America · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Capital Club Building

    The Capital Club Building is a historic office building located at 16 W. Martin St. in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.

    400 m · building in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    First Baptist Church

    First Baptist Church of Raleigh is located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. The church was the first Baptist church in the city of Raleigh, organized in 1812, and is one of the oldest churches in the area.

    300 m · church in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Capitol Area Historic District

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Raleigh-Durham (RDU), 17 km · Piedmont Triad (GSO), 122 km · Charlotte Douglas (CLT), 218 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Capitol Area Historic District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Capitol Area Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    723 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,241 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,129 km
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    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,209 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,353 km

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