Hill Directory Co.'s (Incorporated) Raleigh, N.C. city directory [1926]., Part 1

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Publication date: 1926
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RALEIGH, N. C.

CITY DIRECTORY 1926

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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

T THE CITY OF RALEIGH, capital of the State, is the heart of North Carolina progress. It is a commercial and educational center. Its growth and progress during the past few years has been rapid and substantial. Aside from its great advantages as a commercial and dis- tributing center, which is responsible for its rapidly increased development it is a city that abounds in historical traditions and is the pride of North Carolina. The estimated population is 35,000.

THE CAPITAL CITY

At no capital in the country are there more buildings or institutions connected with the State government than in Raleigh. These include the Capitol, which was built in 1840 of granite from a quarry that was owned by the State, considered by architects to be one of the most perfect pieces of architecture in the country, the Administration Building, Agricultural Building, Hall of History, State Museum, State Departments Building, State Office Building, State Highway Commission Building, Governor's Mansion, State Prison, State Hospital for the Insane, State School for the White Blind, State School for the Colored Deaf Mutes, State Labora- tory of Hygiene, State Confederate Soldiers' Home, North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering, State Poultry Farm, State Experi- mental Farm and State Fair Grounds.

PREFACE-Continued.

There are thirteen public park and playground areas. The Capitol Square is situated in the center of Raleigh, four streets running north, south, east and west from it, being named for the earlier capitals of the State. There are ninety miles of streets, fifty-five miles of which are paved and all others improved.

There are two public libraries containing over 66,000 volumes; three hospitals, forty-seven churches of all denominations, a Y. M. C. A. costing $85,000 equipped with gymnasium, swimming pool, library and other departments of interest to its members, and a well organized Y. W. C. A. that cost over $70,000.

The Olivia Raney Library was a gift to the city by the late R. B. Raney, as a memorial to his wife. It is well equipped with both an adult and a children's department and contains 20,000 volumes. It is free to all white residents of Raleigh township.

There are two theatres, two movies and a city auditorium with seating capacity of 5,000. Two public swimming pools, several swimming clubs and a country club with an eighteen-hole golf course.

Raleigh will soon have a total of 933 hotel rooms-Sir Walter, 240; Yarborough, 150; Bland 110; Raleigh, 105; Wiley, 50; Giersch, 38. Two hotels are to be opened this year.

The building permits for 1920 were $862,322 and for 1925 were $3,502,011.

Raleigh has eight banks. The bank clearances in 1925 were $127,- 034,022.00.

Raleigh has a full motorized fire department. The city ranks first- class as to insurance rates.

The assessed property valuation in Raleigh is $45,184,995. This does not include any State property, the valuation of which is several millions.

The assessed property valuation of Wake County is $92,595,934; area, 824 square miles.

NOTED AS AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER

Raleigh is an educational center, having twenty-seven schools of various classes from grammar school to university. There are fourteen public schools with an attendance of over 7,069. The number of students in other institutions is about 5,000, making a total of over 12,069, students in Raleigh. There are six colleges and one University, two preparatory schools for small boys and girls, and several State and fraternal schools. The proportion of students in the schools of all classes is greater as com- pared to the whole population than any other city in the South.

North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering was estab- lished in 1885. The college confers the B. S. Degrees, offering practical and technical education in agriculture, horticulture, animal industry, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, highway engineering, chemistry, dyeing, agricultural engineering, textile engineering, agricultural economics and business administration. It also offers practi- cal economics and business administration and practical training in many branches of construction work.

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PREFACE-Continued.

Meredith College is the largest Baptist college for women in the State. It offers four general courses, conferring the A. B. and B. S. degrees and giving diplomas in music and art. A graduate from Meredith is accepted in Northern universities.

St. Mary's School for girls is the largest Episcopal school for girls in the United States. The school offers preparatory work and two years college work, giving diplomas in music, art, home economics, business and ex- pression. It was founded in 1842.

Peace Institute, a junior school for girls was founded in 1857. The school offers preparatory work and two years college work, giving diplomas in music, art and all other courses.

King's Business Colleges of Raleigh and Charlotte (headquarters in Raleigh) are the two leading business training institutions of the State, of which E. L. Layfield is president and owner.

Hardbarger's Secretarial School has been established here during the past year under the management of Miss Chess Hardbarger.

The city recently voted a bond issue of $1,300,000 for additional schoc} buildings.

MANUFACTURING

Number of manufacturing establishments in Raleigh is 48; wage earners 1,791; wages paid, $1,904,208; value of manufactured products, $8,728,537.

Raleigh has manufacturing plants which turn out cotton goods, under- wear, structural iron, cotton oil, fertilizers, school supplies, books, chemical products, building materials, monuments, candy and school desks.

There are eight printing houses and fifty-two newspapers and periodi- cals are published here. The extent of the business exceeds that of any city this size in the South based upon our population.

The Carolina Power & Light Company operates the street railway and supplies light and power to all manufacturing plants. This company furnishes electricty to points between Raleigh and Roxboro to the north- ward, Goldsboro to the eastward, Durham to the westward, and Fayette- ville to the Southward. It obtains water generated electric power from the Buckhorn Falls on the Cape Fear River, ninety-seven miles distant. It also maintains here an auxiliary or reserve steam power plant. It has available 100,000 horsepower for use.

This company also operates the gas plants in Raleigh and Durham. The gas supply in Raleigh amounts to 800,000 cubic feet daily.

TRAIN SERVICE

Raleigh is located on three railroads; Seaboard Air Line Railway, Nor- folk-Southern and Southern. These railroads lead to all directions and afford excellent facilities for the business and shopping public. There are twenty passenger trains daily and very good freight and passenger service.

PREFACE-Continued.

DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES

Raleigh is the distributing center for a large territory, principally eastern Carolina. In addition to three railroads radiating in all directions there are 2,000 miles of hard surface roads within a 100 miles radius and a popula- tion in this same territory of 1,802,000 (U. S. Census). Competitive freight rates between the ports of Norfolk to the North, Wilmington to the east and Charleston to the south, with local distribution freight rates comparing favorably with those of any Southern State.

Raleigh is neither east nor west. It stands at the cross-roads, logically situated to serve economically a wide area, with easy access to the indus- trial Piedmont section and agricultural east.

Raleigh wholesalers are now distributing: adding machines, auto acces- sories, automobile tires, barber supplies, bread, builders' supplies, cakes, candies, canned products, cash registers, drugs, farm implements, feeds, flour, groceries, hardware, ice cream, lumber, machinery, mill supplies, meats, office furniture, office supplies, oils, optical supplies, paper, paints, plumbing and heating supplies, produce, provisions road machinery, re- frigerators, school books, tobaccos, sash and door.

The platform facilities of the three railroads here will accommodate seventy-four cars. The daily number of package cars received and for- warded by the three railroads will average seventy-eight.

HIGHWAYS

Raleigh is located on Federal Interstate Highway No. 1, which is the principal highway from Maine to Florida. The Capital to Capital, Cal- houn, LaFayette and Bankhead highways also connect at Raleigh, the Capital of the Good Roads State. Interstate No. 1, is the great North and South tourist route which brings a large tourist patronage to this city.

PREFACE-Continued.

AGRICULTURE

Raleigh is located in the center of a rich farming country. Here lands have doubled and in some instances trebled in value during the past five years. The country in this vicinity produces a great variety of crops, including corn, cotton, small grain, tobacco, sorghum, peas, and all sorts. of truck, and in the County of Wake, of which Raleigh is the county seat, the corn-growing record of the United States has been broken by the pro- duction of 226 bushels on an acre and the cotton growing record by the production of three and one-half bales on an acre.

The Department of Commerce figures show the value of farms in Wake County to be $23,704,963, which is the second highest in the State. The adjoining County of Johnston stands first, with farm values at $25,777,998.

INSURANCE CENTER

Raleigh has five insurance companies with home offices here which have assets of $6,377,000. These companies are the Durham Life Insurance Company, Occidental Life Insurance Company, North Carolina Home Insurance Company, Atlantic Fire Insurance Company and the Atlantic Surety Co.

PAY ROLLS

Raleigh's annual pay-roll from four specific sources amounts to over three and one-half million dollars. The annual State pay-roll in Raleigh, including all employees, is $1,350,000. This embraces employees in the State institutions in Raleigh as well as the departments.

The Seaboard Air Line and Norfolk-Southern shops here have 425 em- ployees. The annual pay-roll from this source is $800,000.

The colleges and schools in Raleigh, led by the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering, have an annual pay roll to the faculties and other employees of $1,065,150. These figures do not include the city schools.

The Carolina Power & Light Company which serves over seventy cities and towns in the Carolinas, with headquarters offices here, has an annual pay-roll in Raleigh of $500,000.

These interesting figures show some of Raleigh's sources of income, and is an indication of the substantial development of the city. In the pay roll figures for the colleges and schools there is no method of determining the large amount expended in Raleigh annually by the student population, which numbers around five thousand.

Other Raleigh pay-roll figures from miscellaneous sources, largely con- fined to the printing industry, cotton mills, automobile garages and re- pair shops, lumber mills and machine shops have a pay-roll of $1,610,000 annually. The total for this amounts to $5,324,000.

PREFACE-Continued.

HISTORICAL RALEIGH

There have been two Raleighs in North Carolina; the first the "City of Raleigh," on Roanoke Island, which came into being in the spring of 1587, upon the arrival of Governor John White. Of it only old Fort Raleigh, its defense, now remains. Governor White last saw it in life August 27th, that year, when he told his colonists good-bye and sailed for England, expecting to return soon with more settlers and more supplies. In 1591 he saw it in death, its colonists gone without a trace and utter silence over

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all. Then what is now North Carolina and all the rest of North America from the pole to the Spanish possessions was "Virginia," named fancifully by Sir Walter Raleigh, in honor of his queen, the great Elizabeth, who was unmarried and who had made him a Knight. His high purpose was to found here "the British Empire in America." He lived to see that dream realized, for Jamestown in Virginia, founded in 1607, was settled under the auspices of his same company of "gentlemen adventurers.'

The inspiration of Sir Walter's great name persisted and when in 1787 the convention of the people of the State of North Carolina decreed that there should be a "Fixed and Unalterable Seat of Government" it was also decreed that it should be named in his honor. It was a wise course to pur- sue, as since the establishment of this Colony which began in 1663, there had been ten seats of government, at only three of which were there struc- tures designed to be of a permanent character, these places being Edenton, Brunswick and Newbern; at the latter being the finest building in all North and South America; so noble that it was called the "Palace." It is small wonder that the one at the present Raleigh, built for the governors

PREFACE-Continued.

in 1814, was called the "Palace" also, until April, 1865, when the last Governor to occupy it, Zebulon B. Vance, left it at the approach of the Federal Army, commanded by General William T. Sherman.

The City of Raleigh, in the County of Wake, was born like the hero in mythology, full armed; that is to say its site was purchased with the public funds, its location having been determined by the State Convention, under the order of which the General Assembly or Legislature acted. Its streets were named by the Convention and the special commissioners named by the General Assembly; not named in a casual way, but in honor of notable men and for the eight superior court districts. In like manner the public squares were for men to whom the State was deeply indebted for its inde- pendence and other matters.

So it is that the Raleigh of today, established, bought and paid for March 30, 1792, is the consummation of a well-laid and definite plan. When President Washington reached Newbern in his tour through North Caro- lina, in the spring of 1791, he set down in his diary that he was about 150 miles eastward of the place where the permanent capital was to be, on a site bought with public funds, as Washington, in the District of Columbia was to be. The plan pleased and impressed him greatly. Perhaps he may have played no small part in the idea, as he did in the case of the present national capital.

Raleigh, like Washington City, made a small beginning. Washington was called for many years the "City of Magnificent Distances." It was tiny, the Capitol and the Presidents' house were but poor structures, its streets were mud in wet weather and dust in dry. So Raleigh had its flimsy and uncouth capitol building begun in 1793 and finished so it would be occupied in November, 1794.

Fires several times did damage to private property in Raleigh, one con- suming a tenth of the buildings; another destroying the first capitol. The smallness of Raleigh persisted until the war of 1861-65 came, for and some years afterwards. The first modern building after the State Capitol was finished in 1840, was the post-office and federal court building, in 1788. Really not until after 1900 did the city's aspect change much. It was largely a residential town. The building of the present capitol did not lead to other permanent architecture of importance, nor did the erection of the second state building, the asylum for the insane, in 1853-57 or the State School for the Blind and Deaf, in 1847.

RALEIGH'S SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH

In 1907 the completion of the Masonic Temple marked the coming of fire-proof buildings and then came 1911-15, with the third State building, for the State Library, Supreme Court and Historical Commission; the Citizens, Commercial and Raleigh Banking and Trust buildings, and the city auditorium. In fact most persons, asked when Raleigh really began to grow, reply "when it built the auditorium." The latter fixed it as the convention city of the State, for all the greater public gatherings.

PREFACE-Continued.

Its first school was St. Mary's, built prior to 1840, 30 years later came Peace Institute and then about 1900 Meredith College, in the way of white institutions, while the negro ones, Shaw and St. Augustine's, date from 1867. Not until about 1890 did the State Agricultural and Mechanical College come into being. The State Prison was begun in 1869 and finished a number of years later, the Soldiers' Home, unimportant buildings of wood, was occupied in 1891. In 1876, after a great notable celebration of the 4th of July, the old "Palace" of the Governors, long unoccupied, was se- cured for the first graded school. Some 20 years later the first high school was established in a building on the site of the "Palace."

The end of the World War gave another impetus, like that of 1911-15, and then came what may be termed the greater hospital for the insane and epileptics, the school for the blind, the agricultural building, the Agri- cultural and Engineering College, the Odd Fellows Temple, the new Mere- dith College and public schools, modern and fireproof, a million dollar hotel, the Sir Walter, a great extension of area and such other structures along all lines as had been undreamed of, the proper paving of the streets, and the advent of the most wonderful highway system in the South.

PROGRESSIVE CAPITAL CITY

Raleigh awoke New Year's Day, 1925, to find itself no longer a town but a city; a place with a dual responsibility; to its citizens but even more to North Carolina, which had conceived the great plan for it, bought the "unalterable site" and nobly laid out the place, the only one in all America thus established.

In a county named in almost the last days of royal government for a lady of the family of the next to the last royal governor; in almost the precise geographical center of the State and near its present population center; in the region where the lower Piedmont and the Coastal Plain adjoin, its planning was at once noble and practical, while its growth has been in recent years so excellent as to show the wisdom of the forefathers of 1792 in laying it out with wide streets and large public squares.

All the romance of the first City of Raleigh, 1587, lingers in the present one. It is at the crossing of the roads, north to south and east to west, as it has been for nigh 150 years. Many of the State's greatest highways lead to it. It is midway between New York and Florida.

At no other capital in all the United States are there so many state institutions. The growth of public buildings, federal, state, county and city, as well as business houses, churches, schools, and homes has been well conceived and admirably carried out.

GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations

Alphabetical Directory

Banks ..

767

Building and Loan Associations

774

Business Directory.

757

Cemeteries.

777

Chamber of Commerce

483

Churches. .

778

City Government

483

Clergymen.

781

Clubs

783

Courts.

483

County Government.

586

Elks.

783

Fire Department.

483

Hospitals and Asylums.

810

Index to Advertisements.

Junior Order U. A. M

345

Knights of Pythias.

355

Libraries.

825

Masonic Orders.

399

Moose Loyal Order Of.

375

Odd Fellows.

315

Parks and Places of Amusements, etc.

838

Police Department.

483

Post Office

580

Preface.

Schools and Colleges.

851

Street and Avenue Guide.

637

United States Post Office. 580

635

Y. W. C. A

636

PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

The information in this book is gathered as far as possible by actual canvass, and is compiled in a way to ensure maximum accuracy. The publishers cannot, of course, guarantee the correctness of in- formation furnished them nor the complete absence of mistakes, hence no responsibility for errors can be assumed, but we will wel- come the bringing to our attention of any inaccuracies so that correc- tion may be made in the next Directory.

HILL DIRECTORY CO., INC., Publishers.

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Reference is especialiy invited to the following alphabetical list of re- sponsible, enterprising, advertising business men. The more you patronize them the better we can make the Raleigh City Directory; your attention is aiso invited to the names in DISPLAY BLACK TYPE throughout the book of those who take pride in sustaining the City Directory and who do not borrow their neighbor's directory:

Adickes Thos W marginal line inside front cover and 47

Adkins & Champion

Alexander U B

Allen David G

right aide lines and 30

Allison & Betts.

left bottom linea and

Art Flower Shop Inc The.

Auto Electric & Battery Co

left aide linea and

Baker & Rawls

right side lines and

Battery Service Co

left aide lines and 20

Beasley & Peddy

55 45

Bon Ton Tailors The.

marginal line front cover and

Boylan-Pearce Co Inc.

right bottom linea and

Brantley Jno C

left side lincs and

Bratton Jno.

left side linea and

Briggs Thoa H & Sons Inc.

right bottom lines and

Brown H J Co.

left aide linea and

Burrougha Adding Machine Co.

front cover and 19

Byrum A H

right bottom lines and

Capital City Laundry

left aide linea and 52

Capital City Letter Writers

Carolina Builders Corp.

Carolina Custom Cabinet Co Inc.

Carolina Radio & Salea Co

right aide linea and

Carolina Transit Co Inc

marginal line front cover and

Cascade Laundry Co Inc.

Cherokee Brick Co.

right top lines and 31

Chimney Rock Mountains Inc

right bottom lines and 61

Citizens National Bank

right bottom linea and 26

Commercial National Bank

Commercial Printing Co Inc.

Connor, Ruffin & Moore.

_left top linea and

Cooper Monument Co.

right aide linea and

Cothran Motor Car Co.

left hottom lines and

Cross & Linehan Co.

left top linea and

Cumbo's Tailoring Co.

Davia H C_

right top linea and

Ex-Ellia Signa.

right aide lines and

Franklin Automobile Sales Co.

right top lines and

Gattis Phillip D

beginning all letters except "B" and "Y" and

39 46

Goodwin-Smith Furniture Co.

Green'a Shop_

Hardbarger'a Chess Miss Secretarial School

left aide linea and

Harria Dan Dr.

Harvey's Service Station

left aide linea and

Hedrick Wm P Dr.

Hornaday & Faucette Inc.

left top linea and

60 46 45

Hudson-Belk Co.

Jenninga Tire Co.

back cover and

22 3

Johnson J M.

left bottom linea and 48

Jolly's

„right top linea and 51

33 68 40 45 17 48

Dixon. Rusa & Carter.

Drewry Jno C

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Hill Directory Co.'s (Incorporated) Raleigh, N.C. city directory [1926]., Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1926 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 872

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 872