The Hayes Barton Historic District is a neighborhood located northwest of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Hayes Barton, an upper-class neighborhood designed by landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, contains 457 buildings on 1,750 acres (7.1 km2). The neighborhood design includes roads fitted to the contours of the land and features several public parks. The Hayes Barton neighborhood is roughly bounded by St. Mary’s St., Fairview Rd., W. Roanoke Park Dr. (renamed in 2020, formerly Aycock St.), Scales St., and Williamson Dr. In 2002, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Noted landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper laid out Hayes Barton, which lies generally west of Glenwood Avenue and north of Wade Avenue. By allowing roads to follow the terrain and converting ravines into median oases, Draper created a naturalistic landscape for the suburb, increasing its appeal as an escape from the city. Draper lined the small parks with the largest parcels and the finest houses were built there. While parcels vary in size throughout Hayes Barton, setbacks are generous and fairly uniform, creating an estate-like setting for the suburban dwellings. East of Glenwood Avenue, a more modest section tends not to follow the design elements of the rest of the neighborhood. About half the houses went up in the mid-to-late-1920s when a period of the revival of architectural styles was very popular. The neighborhood has a fine collection of Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Dutch Colonial Revival dwellings, many designed by architects. There are also Craftsman foursquare and bungalows, particularly in the east of Glenwood Avenue, as well as a few Spanish Eclectic examples, like the “Alhambra,” a Sears, Roebuck, and Company mail-order house that stands on St. Mary’s Street. A1 Bed Bug Exterminator Raleigh
While other Five Points neighborhoods had plats filed before Hayes Barton in 1920, this neighborhood developed first and most rapidly. The notable landscape design, proximity to the streetcar, and the deed restrictions that ensured houses would be of a certain value all conspired to create a highly desirable new suburban option for Raleigh’s upper-middle-class population. Named after Sir Walter Raleigh’s English homeplace, the developers also appealed to the Anglophile fashion of the times. Politicians and professionals–a plentiful group in the state’s capital city–chose Hayes Barton as home in the 1920s, buying into the developers’ promise of exclusivity and separation from the urban ills of the center city.
Restaurants and Pubs
- Mandolin is located at 2519 Fairview Rd, Raleigh, NC
- Lilly’s Pizza is located at 1813 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC
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