This Saturday: Raleigh Historic Bike Ride
This Saturday, November 2nd, the RHDC and Raleigh Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Commission are hosting a bike ride and tour of Raleigh’s historic buildings. It is in part to promote RHDC’s new mobile app.
The Raleigh Historic Development Commission is a great group of people promoting awareness of Raleigh’s rich history in architecture, and it’s exciting that they are bringing their research and information to a new platform.
Please join RHDC and the Raleigh Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Commission for the Raleigh Historic Bike Ride on November 2nd at 10:00 a.m. beginning at the Raleigh Little Theatre’s Amphiteater. Explore Raleigh’s historic landscapes and RHDC’s new mobile app, Raleigh Historic. The bike ride will conclude at 12:00 p.m. at Benelux Cafe, where you can win raffle prizes!
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The event starts at 10AM November 2nd at the Raleigh Little Theatre. A fitting place to start, as this building was one of the earliest in Raleigh constructed in the new International Style of modernism.
If you’d like to read up on a few of the historic buildings on the ride, we’ve listed them in order of the suggested route:
- Raleigh Little Theatre/Amphitheater/Rose Garden
- Dr. Z.M. Caveness House
- John W. Thompson House
- Boylan Apartments
- Joel Lane House
- Capital Club Building
- Federal Building (Century Post Office)
- Carolina Trust/Mahler Buildings
- Briggs Hardware Building
- Arkansas Delaware and Vermont Connecticut Royster Confectioners Building
- Raleigh Banking And Trust Company Building (Raleigh Building)
- Old Masonic Temple Building
- Early Store Building (Heilig-Levine)
- Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Building
- Raleigh Furniture Building
- Delany Building
- Montague Building
- Tabernacle Baptist Church
- Leonidas R. Wyatt House
- Murphey School
- Capehart House
- Lee House
- Higgs-Coble-Helms House
- Andrews-Duncan House
- Heck-Andrews House
- Hawkins-Hartness House
- Andrews-London House
- Bailey-Bunn House
- Executive Mansion, Burke Square
- Richard B. Haywood House
- Capital Apartments
- City Market
This will be a fun event. Grease up the chain, put air in those tires, strap on a helment, and see some wonderful architectural treasures this Saturday.
More information:
- Raleigh Historic Bike Ride (RHDC)
- Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC)