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General Index
Abbreviations.
72
Alphabetical Directory 73
Associations and Clubs-Commercial
692
Banks. 696
Buildings-Office and Public.
701
Business Directory-Classified
689
Buyers' Guide.
25
Cemeteries.
703
Chamber of Commerce.
424
Churches
703
City Courts.
425
City Fire Department
425
City Officials.
425
City Police Department
425 705
Clergymen
Clubs.
707
County Government
511
Elks
757 724
Index to Advertisers
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Introduction
10
Junior Order of U A M
757
Labor Organizations
734
Libraries
738
Masonic Orders.
757
Moose, Loyal Order of
757
Odd Fellows
757
Parks and Playgrounds
746
Preface.
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Schools-Public.
754
Schools and Colleges
754
Societies. 756
Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal
757
State Officials. 386
Street and Avenue Guide and Householders' Directory 553
United States Post Office
505
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Hospitals and Dispensaries
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Index to Advertisers
Allison & Betts.
. right bottom lines
Auto Electric & Battery Co. right top lines and 28
Bagwell & Bagwell.
51
Baker & Rawls Roofing Co.
62
Barden Albert.
42
Boylan-Pearce Co left top lines and 43
Brantley John C. .right side lines and 43
Briggs Thos H & Son Inc. .right bottom lines and 48
Brockwell's Shop . right top lines and
55
Buchan Transport Co Inc.
.right bottom lines and
67
Bynum Printing Co.
Byrum A H.
Campbell Paul.
Capital City Laundry front cover and
Carolina Builders Corp
backbone and
Carolina Coal Co
Carter R. C & Co.
backbone and
Cascade Laundry Co
Commercial National Bank
front cover and
Connor & Ruffin
left top lines and 48
Cross & Linehan Co left top lines and 40
Crowder's Storage Garage
right side lines and
Cullins Motor Service
. left side lines and
Dixie Inns Inc.
left bottom lines and 40
Drewry John C.
marginal line front cover and
Durham Life Insurance Co.
right top lines and
Eastern Petroleum Co Inc.
Edwards & Broughton Co.
Farrow James H
Foster Transfer Co
.left bottom lines and
Gomez Angelo.
Goodnow Chas N-Kennon W Parham.
Goodwin-Smith Furniture Co
Hornaday & Faucette Inc.
left side lines and
Hotel Carolina Garage.
right side lines and
Johnson Chas E.
Jolly's Inc.
right top lines and 53
Martin Mill Work Co.
bottom stencil and 56
Maupin A M
right top lines and
49 2
McDonald J C Co Inc.
McKimmon & McKee Inc
Mitchell Funeral Home
front cover and
Mitchell Printing Co
Montfort Plumbing & Heating Co . marginal line front cover and Montgomery Elizabeth M.
51 46 60 59 65 32
Montgomery-Mutart Inc
.right top lines and
Moore Sign Co
front cover and 65
Moore & Johnson Co
50
Morris Plan Bank The.
right bottom lines and 35
60 38 57 53 38 41 27 54 34
30 31
49 52 47 60 28 68 57 27 47
61 31 3
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National Life Insurance Co.
North Carolina Bank & Trust Co. .left top lines and 35 North Carolina Industrial Bank right bottom lines and 36 Oak City Laundry Oldham & Worth Inc. marginal line front cover and 55 39 Page Trust Co 36 Parker V O Co 51 and 61 Peace, A Junior College for Women. 63 44 Person Street Pharmacy. Pike Sam C. 61 Pine State Creamery Co left side lines and Price R L & Co 42 27 Pullen A M & Co right bottom lines and 27 Quinn R E & Co. 47 3
Raleigh Bonded Warehouse Inc
Raleigh Building & Loan Assn .right bottom lines and
Raleigh Firestone Service Stores Inc. marginal line back cover and
Raleigh Granite Co.
Raleigh Nash Co
right side lines and
Raleigh Transfer Co Inc. left top lines and
Rawlings A Lee & Co
right side lines and
Reid & Smith.
Saint Mary's School
Sanitary Laundry back cover and
54
Sir Walter Chevrolet Co
front stencil and 33
South View Service.
left side lines and
34
Southern Exterminating Co. left side lines and 45 67 Southern Title Service Co 45 Spencer Floral Co. . right bottom lines and Spingler A G Dr .right top lines and 59 46
Steinmetz H
Stephenson C H Music Co left top lines and 57
Thompson Electrical Co. right side lines and 44
Thiem James E.
.right top lines and
58
Three Tailors The right side lines and
Warren's Transfer
White Joe M Auto Service.
. right side lines and
White & Hodgin Co
top stencil and
Whiting-Horton Co.
Williams Alfred & Co marginal line front cover, left top lines and 37
Williams James M & Co.
left top lines and
26
Williams & Williams.
51
Yancey Robert G
.right side lines and
50
Yates Auto Service Inc.
marginal line back cover and 29
52
39 32 66 33 68 26 60 64
66 69 30 41 41
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Introduction
Hill Directory Co., Inc., publishers of the Raleigh City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public this, the 1931 edition of the Raleigh City Directory.
Confidence in the continued growth of Raleigh's industry and popula- tion and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting the community to the world.
The enviable place occupied by Hill's directories in the estimation of the public has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, having the courteous and hearty co-opera- tion of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Raleigh Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the community.
FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS
The Buyers' Guide, pages 25 to 72, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Raleigh. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best and, as such, merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The community's activities, in many interesting phases, are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and pro- gressive community like Raleigh, the necessity of having this kind of in- formation immediately available is very great and, frequently, pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and cor- porations is included in pages 73 to 552. (A feature of this section is the inclusion of the wife's name in parenthesis following that of the husband.)
The Directory of Householders, including Street and Avenue Guide, covers pages 553 to 688. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order; the residences and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.
The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 689 to 764. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and profes- sional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the busi-
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ness interests of the community. "The directory is the common inter- mediary between buyer and seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."
COMMUNITY PUBLICITY
The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, de- picting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site, and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Raleigh, for business men everywhere realize that the city directory repre- sents a community as it really is.
THE RALEIGH DIRECTORY LIBRARY
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Raleigh City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce for free reference by the general public. This library is one of 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return,
HILL DIRECTORY CO., INC., Publishers.
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Statistical Review
Form of government-Commission.
Population (U. S. Census, 1930)-Raleigh, 37,379; Raleigh Township, 43,346. Wake County, 94,464.
Area-712 square miles.
Altitude-363 feet.
Temperature-Almost ideal, practically never reaching zero in winter and practically never reaching 100 in summer.
Parks-13 park areas.
Museums-State Museum, State Hall of History, State Art Museum (beginning).
Assessed valuation-$52,810.070.
Financial-Eight banks, with total resources of $26,000,000, and clearings of $117,- 088,662.00 (1930).
Post Office Receipts (1930)-$447,542.33.
Telephones in Service -8,795.
Churches-Forty-eight, leading denominations.
Building and Construction-Value of building permits, annual average for past five years, $3,054,056.
Industry-Forty-two establishments, employing 1,481 workers, paying annual wages of $1,786,604, and having products valued at $7,058,940.
Retail Trade-Territory serves 650,000 in a trading area having a radius of 25 to 50 miles. Volume of retail trade (1930), $23,401,823.
Wholesale Trade-Seventy-six establishments, with annual business of $12,500,000.
Newspapers-Two dailies, three weeklies, four monthlies, one quarterly.
Hotels-Seven, with total of 1,005 rooms.
Railroads-Three, Seaboard Air Line (main line), Southern, and Norfolk-Southern. Amusements-Large auditorium, seats 4,000 persons. There are three theatres. Hospitals-Three public, three private.
Education-Raleigh has 6 colleges, representing a capital investment of $7,248,000, with 541 teachers and officers. Total enrollment in 1931 was 4,500. This includes North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering; Meredith (Baptist), an "A" grade woman's college; Peace (Presbyterian), and St. Mary's (Episcopal) junior colleges; Shaw University and St. Augustine's, for colored. Two business colleges-King's Business Col- lege and Hardbarger's Secretarial School. Number of preparatory schools, 18, including two high schools and one parochial. Number of pupils in public schools, 8,500. Value of public school property, $2,750,000. The North Carolina School for the White Blind and the State School for Negro Deaf and Dumb are located here. Wake Forest College (Bap- tist), with an enrollment of 700, is also located in Wake County.
Volumes in State and City Public Libraries-83,683.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 90, with 75 miles paved. Miles of water mains, 115, with 8,785 connections; of sewers, 100, and of electric street railway, 12. Daily pumping capacity of water works (municipal), 7,000,000 gallons from both the main and auxiliary sources of supply; present average daily consumption, 3,032,000 gallons; plant value, $1,900,000. Fire department employs 56 men with full motorized equipment; 5 station houses and 555 hydrants. Police department has 52 men with one station and six pieces of motor equipment.
Wake County-S24 square miles in area; second county in State in farm production, with value of farm property at $2,983,752. Total farm population of 35,562.
State-North Carolina State Department have 938 employees with an annual payroll of $1,698,902.
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
The Progressive Capital of a Progressive State
Facts and Information Compiled by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Only six States in the American Union-California, Florida, Michigan, Texas, Arizona and New Jersey-exceeded North Carolina in percentage of population growth 1920-30-23.9%.
And Raleigh's percentage of growth-53.1%-was more than twice as great as that of the State as a whole.
Notable Facts in the March of Progress
A 53.1% increase in population as shown by the 1930 United States Census.
Construction work in Raleigh of all types in the past 10 years representing an outlay of $30,000,000, an average of $3,000,000 annually.
Bank resources have increased from $12,000,000 to $26,000,- 000, and deposits from $8,500,000 to approximately $18,000,000 during a ten-year period.
Investments in buildings and equipment of colleges and schools have grown from $3,400,000 to $7,500,000 in the past ten years. During the same period the student enrollment in colleges has increased from 1,352 to 3,810.
Municipal improvements necessitating an expenditure of over $3,000,000 to provide for present and anticipated needs have been made in the past few years.
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The retail volume of trade has increased in the past six years to $23,401,823. The Raleigh retail sales area is from 25 to 50 miles.
A modern airport and flying school has been provided by the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service. Raleigh is one of the regular stops on the Eastern Air Transport New York-South American trunk air line. The city and county co-operated in this de- velopment.
A modern radio station, carrying both chain and local pro- grams, has been provided by the Durham Life Insurance Com- pany.
The North Carolina State Fair, with a group of handsome new buildings, has been enlarged under State ownership and operation.
Wake County provided a bond issue of $1,300,000 expended to complete the hard-surfacing of all important through high- ways in the county, in the interest of both local and tourist traffic.
Raleigh has been established as a stop-over for tourist traffic bound to Southern resorts. Highway developments have put this city at the forks of two leading Southern highways-Federal, No. 1, and the Coastal Route.
Eastern North Carolina is the section of the State with the greatest undeveloped potentialities, and Raleigh is the logical gateway and distributing point for this vast and fertile agri- cultural area.
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RALEIGH --- Old and New
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 from England. Of it only old Fort Raleigh, its defense, now remains. Governor White left for England on August 27th that year, expecting to return soon with more settlers and supplies. In 1591, when he came back, the colonists had gone without a trace. Then what is now North Carolina and all the rest of North America was "Virginia," named fancifully by Sir Walter Raleigh, in honor of his queen, the great Elizabeth.
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 Raleigh's honor. Since the establishment of the colony in 1663, there had been ten seats of government, at only three of which were there structures designed to be of a permanent character. These places were Edenton, Brunswick and New Bern.
Raleigh's streets were named by the convention and the special commissioners named by the General Assembly, in honor of notable men and for the eight superior court districts. In like manner, the public squares were named for men to whom the State was indebted for conspicuous service.
The Raleigh of to-day, established, bought and paid for March 30, 1792, was the consummation of a well-laid and definite plan. The construction of the first capitol building was begun in 1793 and finished in November, 1794. This was later destroyed by fire. The present capitol was built in 1840.
Raleigh's first school was St. Mary's, built prior to 1840. Thirty years later came Peace Institute, and then about 1900, Meredith College, while the negro colleges, Shaw and St. Augus- tine's, date from 1867. In 1890 the State Agricultural and Mechanical College came into being. The State prison was begun in 1869 and finished a number of years later. The Sol- dier's Home, with buildings of wood, was occupied in 1891.
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In 1876 the old "Palace" of the governors, long unoccupied, was secured for the first graded school. Some twenty years later the first high school was established in a building on the site of the "Palace."
At no capital in the country are there more buildings or institutions connected with the State government. These in- clude the present 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, State School for the White Blind, State School for Colored Deaf Mutes, State Laboratory of Hygiene, State Confederate Soldiers' Home, North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, and the State Fair Buildings.
In 1907 the completion of the Masonic Temple marked the coming of fireproof buildings, and then came 1911-1915, 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.
The end of the World War brought about another period of extensive development, and then came the new State Hospital, the new School for the Blind, the Agricultural Building, the beautiful Library Building, and other new structures at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering; the Odd Fellows Building, the new Meredith College, and public schools, modern and fireproof; Sir Walter Hotel, the Professional Building, the Carolina Hotel, the new Raleigh Banking and Trust Company Building, the Capital Club's new twelve-story office building, and many other structures; extensive street paving and municipal improvements, and the advent of North Carolina's great highway construction program.
A Center of Education
Raleigh, with six colleges and an excellent school system, has long been recognized as an outstanding center of education.
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The North Carolina State College of Agriculture and En- gineering was established by legislative enactment in 1889. It is one of the leading agricultural and mechanical colleges in the South. There are thirty major buildings in the plant. It had an enrollment-constantly growing-of 2,000 in 1929. It embraces four schools-agriculture, engineering, science and business, and a graduate school.
Meredith College, a Baptist college for women, was opened in 1887. For many years it was located near the capitol and now occupies a modern new plant completed in 1925, two miles from the city on the Hillsboro Road. Courses are offered in arts, sciences and music.
St. Mary's School for Girls, founded in 1842, is the largest girl's school owned and controlled by the Episcopal Church in the United States. It is a junior college and recognized as one of the best in America.
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