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Historic district in North Carolina, United States

Dix Hill

Dix Hill is the informal name for a high, rolling expanse of land and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dix Hill
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The place

Dix Hill is the informal name for a high, rolling expanse of land and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The district encompasses 18 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures. It includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Bungalow / American Craftsman, and Stick Style / Eastlake movement architecture. The Dorothea Dix Hospital, a historic institution caring for the mentally ill, was located on the site. Many of the hospital buildings, developed between about 1856 and 1940, are still there. The Dix Hill Historic District is now part of Raleigh's 308-acre Dix Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dix Hill

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.

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

    1.9 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    1.9 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of North Carolina · 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.

    1.8 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.

    2 km · 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.

    1.8 km · cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.6 km · park in North Carolina, United States of America, United States of America · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    1.7 km · American university · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Reynolds Coliseum

    William Neal Reynolds Coliseum is a multi-purpose arena located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, on the campus of North Carolina State University. The arena was built to host a variety of events, including agricultural expositions and NC State basketball games.

    2.2 km · multi-purpose arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. · 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.

    1.9 km · church in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Dix Hill

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Raleigh-Durham (RDU), 17 km · Piedmont Triad (GSO), 121 km · Charlotte Douglas (CLT), 216 km
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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 Dix Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    725 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,243 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,127 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,207 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,353 km

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Next door to Dix Hill

Dix Hill is 1 km from Raleigh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.