Nice job, robhop. The building boom currently occuring in Raleigh is just amazing.I always enjoy my visits there. For many more pics of Raleigh and of other US cities, go to www.picasaweb.google.com/miklospogonyi
This is a small park in one of Raleigh's first three suburban subdivisions (Cameron Park, built between 1909-1914, and now considered very much downtown instead of suburban). It's a neighborhood full of large, lovely homes, some in the craftsman style, others not, but none are Victorian like the older Oakwood neighborhood (perhaps that's actually the original Raleigh suburb in the modern sense), and none are quite as, ah, "estate-like" as the somewhat newer homes Hayes-Barton and the White Oak Road area. When Cameron Park was built, it was marketed as a streetcar suburb (street cars ran down Hillsbrough Street in those days) and the paved sidewalks were considered luxurious (you didn't have to muddy your feet walking up to the street car stop). The Brooklyn and Boylan Heights neighborhoods were the other suburbs built at the same time as Cameron Park. Today, the "pocket parks" pictured here are an unimaginable ammenity in a new suburban delevopment. Not only does the land not profit anyone, but the city must maintain it at taxpayer expense! Cameron Park, though only affordable by the rich for most of its history, is a kind of dreamlike vision of what the garden suburb could have been like everywhere. Beautifully designed and constructed houses that have stood the test of time, a very pedestrian-friendly layout with communal spaces, alleyways behind most of the houses for keeping one's car tucked discreetly out of site, Lots of porches, gardens, parks (three in one small neighborhood!)...if Raleigh has an equvalent of the upper East Side, it's Cameron Park (Hayes Barton would be like Westchester County in this analogy). Urban, affluent, and beautiful, a product of a very brief and long-vanished era, that between the creation of the garden suburb itself and the automobile which did so much to change it.
Green space/pocket park transition between Fayetteville and Wilmington Streets (looking east). Alexander Place parking garage on the left and the former Masonic Temple on the right (now the home of Empire Properties and other businessess).
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Good view here.
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WOW, what a scenic and UNUSUAL LANDMARK !!! ONLY IN AMERICA.
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Nice job, robhop. The building boom currently occuring in Raleigh is just amazing.I always enjoy my visits there. For many more pics of Raleigh and of other US cities, go to www.picasaweb.google.com/miklospogonyi
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This is a small park in one of Raleigh's first three suburban subdivisions (Cameron Park, built between 1909-1914, and now considered very much downtown instead of suburban). It's a neighborhood full of large, lovely homes, some in the craftsman style, others not, but none are Victorian like the older Oakwood neighborhood (perhaps that's actually the original Raleigh suburb in the modern sense), and none are quite as, ah, "estate-like" as the somewhat newer homes Hayes-Barton and the White Oak Road area. When Cameron Park was built, it was marketed as a streetcar suburb (street cars ran down Hillsbrough Street in those days) and the paved sidewalks were considered luxurious (you didn't have to muddy your feet walking up to the street car stop). The Brooklyn and Boylan Heights neighborhoods were the other suburbs built at the same time as Cameron Park. Today, the "pocket parks" pictured here are an unimaginable ammenity in a new suburban delevopment. Not only does the land not profit anyone, but the city must maintain it at taxpayer expense! Cameron Park, though only affordable by the rich for most of its history, is a kind of dreamlike vision of what the garden suburb could have been like everywhere. Beautifully designed and constructed houses that have stood the test of time, a very pedestrian-friendly layout with communal spaces, alleyways behind most of the houses for keeping one's car tucked discreetly out of site, Lots of porches, gardens, parks (three in one small neighborhood!)...if Raleigh has an equvalent of the upper East Side, it's Cameron Park (Hayes Barton would be like Westchester County in this analogy). Urban, affluent, and beautiful, a product of a very brief and long-vanished era, that between the creation of the garden suburb itself and the automobile which did so much to change it.
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tihs is raleigh ...need a hotel check in i believe we meet [right] there
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Green space/pocket park transition between Fayetteville and Wilmington Streets (looking east). Alexander Place parking garage on the left and the former Masonic Temple on the right (now the home of Empire Properties and other businessess).
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WTVD, ABC-11 Raleigh Studio on the ground floor of The Hudson condominium (formerly the Hudson-Belk department store).
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Briggs Hardware Building. Home of the Raleigh City Museum (http://www.raleighcitymuseum.org) and Preservation NC (http://www.presnc.org).
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