Needham Broughton High School - Latipac Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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. X, z Y 4 , SM ,- Christ Church Rectory was originally the :First bank in Raleigh amd was known as the Bank 1Between the Porch:-:s. The 'Hurst prrlesiclent was Cololnel Polk. This building was one of the .first th ree brick buixlrlings in Haleriglxh.

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'Y 'FWF 1-4 A , 5 but NJ, '.-12, The .loel Lane home The oldest home in Raleigh, the Joel Lane home, is still standing after nearly a century. This home called the best house within a hundred miles was called the First Capitol. lt is here that the General Assembly met in June 17811. Joel l..ane's estate, in the early part of the last century, was owned by Peter Browne, one of the first lawyers to settle in Ras leigh. William Boylan purchased it in 118118 and it remained in the Boylan family for many years. lt is now the property of the Bloomsbury Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. ll

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if Christ Episcopal Church was organized in l82O, Rev. John Phillips of Calvary Church in Tarboro, being missionary in charge. ln 1822 a -vestry was elected, consisting of Chief Justice John Louis Taylor, Mfilliam H. Haywood, and Dr. 1Burgess. A wooden Church was built in 11329. The present beautiful edifice was erected in 11845 under the supervision of Mr. Upjohn the leading ecclesiastical architect ,of this period. The first rector was 1Rev.JIohn Tiavenscroft. The 'original 'vestrym-erm of the church were .John Louis Taylor, Dr. Burges, William H. Haywood,