Comments on: A Nail That Could Not Be Removed

By: Raleigh Boy

Raleigh Boy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:45:16 +0000

Betsy– Thanks much for the details regarding the Parker and Wright houses! I knew the Parker house had been a renowned boarding house in its day, but I only vaguely remember the Wright house. I used the term “next to” and not “next door to” to describe it as a way to indicate the type of house that once stood on Edenton St. near “Crabapple.” I had not heard that designation for the Haywood House before, so thanks for that too! I remember vividly the Art Deco styled Vance Apartments on the corner, but unfortunately I don’t have a photo of that building!

Lindsay– Thanks for adding a personal note to my post! And you are welcome!

Sallie– I intend to do a post on that block of Wilmington St. you refer to in the near future, so stay tuned!

By: Betsy Foard

Betsy Foard — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:05:05 +0000

What a nice story about “Crabapple”- my parents’ house. Before the State began tearing down everything old in the 1960s Edenton Street was lined with shade trees and gracious houses. One small correction about the photograph of the house that was torn down. That house was not next to Crabapple- the house immediately next door was a beautiful white frame house, very large, with a wrap around southern porch. It belonged to Miss Louise Wright, who sold it to be torn down. Next to her house was the one in the photo. It belonged to Mrs. B. Moore Parker, who had a rooming house. You can make out the sign in front. Mrs. Parker had a goldfish pond in her back yard with huge carp in it- magical to me. Next to Mrs. Parker, on the corner of Edenton and Wilmington, stood the Vance Apartments. Raleigh has lost so much significant architecture in the name of progress (if you can call parking lots progress.) We are fortunate that the tide is turning and folks are beginning to appreciate adaptive reuses of buildings and preservation of old houses.

By: Lindsay Foard

Lindsay Foard — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:59:57 +0000

Thank you to whomever wrote this article. This is my family home and my grandparents, Margie and Marshall Haywood, currently reside here. Our family has my tenacious Nana (Margie) to thank for keeping this home on its original site. And Ben, your question as to if this house is haunted…YES, but by friendly family from generations past who provide great comfort to us.

By: Sallie

Sallie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:18:18 +0000

This was a wonderful article – thanks so much for submitting. You’re right – we’ll be lamenting losses like Blount/Edenton and its many environs at the hands of uninspired development and govermental expansion for years to come.

Sadly, it’s still happening – we will be immenently losing both the Garland Jones building, a spectacular modernist structure, and the Lawyers Building an early 20th century tall office building that once housed the State Theatre, both on S. Salisbury, for the new Wake County complex.

Everyone’s all excited about The Edison project, but no one seems to be too torn up that a block worth of historic buildings – some dating to the 1870′s – will be demolished, including Coopers, which though not high architecture, is undoubtedly a Raleigh relic.

I’ve also seen a lot of grumblings on other downtown blogs about razing the block of commercial buildings on Hillsborough between the Capitol and Glenwood and how much better off we’d be if “density…density…density” went in there.

Hello Charlotte and Atlanta – here we come!

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:43:03 +0000

I used to live in Capital Apartments and always wondered about this house…thanks for the info

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:05:22 +0000

Nice work fellas. Surely this house could be haunted, yes?

By: Lisa Jeffries

Lisa Jeffries — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:24:23 +0000

What a heartbreaker! It’s neighboring, now demolished, house was was BEAUTIFUL!

By: Mark Turner

Mark Turner — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:22:22 +0000

The 1970s was just an all-around bad time for cit y planning. We’ll be paying the price for dumb decisions like this for decades to come.