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

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Interior State Capitol f.r .f 1

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The State Capitol The present capitol, majestic and serene .among stately oaks, was completed in lf'5f1O after the old capitol was demolished hy ifire. The stone wa.s talsen from a quarry near Raleigh. William Nichols directed the lnuiluling, and lthiel Towne ol: New York City acted as architect. Silas Burns, who was for many years proprietor of the only foundry in Raleigh, was given the contract for constructing the iron ifence. The fence was ref moved in 1898 and now encloses the old City Cemetery. The capitol is one of the architectually perfect buildings in this country. The column and entalylature are Grecian Doric and were copied from the Temple of Minerva, commonly called the Parthenon, which was erected in Athens about 500 years before Christ.

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..,-f l AYlETTIEVlILl,lE STlfKIEIE'l'-SCIENIE OIF VIIICTOIRY PARADIES The history and romance in the development ol: Raleigh has been preserved in the naming of its streets. llayettevmille Street, pictured above, was not named for the town of 1Fayetteville as many tlminls, but for one of the eight jutlicial claistrnitcts existing in the State at that time. Halifax, lEnlenton, l-lillslnoro, Wilnmington, New Bern, Salisbury and Morgan were likewise named for each of the remaining clistricts. Jones Street was named for Willie Jones, of ll.al1ifax, one of the commissioners who laid -out the town. The other commissioners also received the honor of having a street named for them. They were McDowell, Martin, Person, Dawson, Blount, l-largett, Harrington and lllootlworth. IG