WAKE FOREST COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Wake Forest Historic District The Wake Forest Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 2003 and has a period of significance from c. 1820 to 1953. It contains the historic core of the Town of Wake Forest, consisting of the original Wake Forest College campus, surrounding residences of college faculty, staff, and other community citizens, and other buildings. The district is focused on the historic campus of the college, established in 1834 on the plantation of Dr. Calvin Jones. The Lea Laboratory (now Broyhill Hall) (1888) is the oldest remaining building on the college campus. Other notable buildings in the district include: Wake Forest Baptist Church (1913-1915) and Binkley Chapel (1944). Wake Forest Local Historic District Wake Forest officially designated its first historic district on May 10, 1979. The district runs along North Main Street, once called “Faculty Avenue” because of all the professors who lived there, extending from North Avenue to Oak Avenue, and along North Avenue and East South Avenue. The Wake Forest Historic District includes homes and other buildings in architectural styles from Greek Revival to Queen Anne to Bungalow ranging from the early 19th to early 20th centuries. Notable buildings include: Calvin Jones House a.k.a. Wake Forest College Birthplace (1820) and the Jack Medlin Store (c. 1905) which was the subject of a NC Supreme Court case, Town of Wake Forest vs. Medlin (1930), a landmarks case that legalized land use zoning in North Carolina.
Glen Royall Mill Village Historic District The Glen Royall Mill Village Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 1999 and has a period of significance from 1900 to 1949. The Royall Cotton Mill was incorporated in 1899, during a period of major expansion in North Carolina’s textile industry, to spin and weave cotton, producing cotton sheeting skein yarn, becoming one of North Carolina’s premiere textile concerns. Construction on the mill and village began in 1900 as the Royall Cotton Mill management began to build housing for its mill operatives and their families.
Local Landmarks • Ailey Young House • Battle-Purnell House • Forestville Baptist Church
• Heartsfield House • I.O. Jones House • Lea Laboratory • Oakforest • Powell House
• Purefoy-Chappell House • Purefoy-Dunn Plantation • Royall Cotton Mill Commissary
• The South Brick House • W.E.B. DuBois School • Wakefields
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