__NOTOC__ Boylan Heights is a historic neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a

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on July 29, 1985. It is also one of six local Historic Overlay Districts in Raleigh. Boylan Heights has been explored in the book ''Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas ''by resident and critical cartographer Denis Wood, which maps the neighborhood in unusual ways. In the introduction to the book, Wood writes that these maps explore "other ways of thinking about oylan Heights. . . as some sort of community, or as a marriage of community and place, or as ''those ''people in ''that ''place, ''their ''relationships, and ''their'' ways in the world . . . a life process." Maps include the location of jack-o'-lanterns on porches, radio waves permeating the air, the light from street lamps, and other attributes of Boylan Heights that cannot be mapped in a traditional way. The national

encompasses 252 contributing buildings and was developed between about 1907 and 1935. It includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and

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style architecture. Its name was used for the 1987 album '' Boylan Heights'' by The Connells. There is a restaurant named after the district in The Corner neighborhood of

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Notable structures

Montfort Hall Montfort Hall is a home and registered historic landmark located in the Boylan Heights neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina. It is one of the few mansions in Raleigh that survived during the American Civil War era. The house was built for Will ...

, built for William Montfort Boylan in 1858

Notable residents

* Denis Wood, widely reviewed former NCSU professor of Design *

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, former mayor of Raleigh, NC *

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, Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district, formerly served in the NC General Assembly and as director of the

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of NC

References

External links

Boylan Heights neighborhood web page

National Register Historic Districts in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Boylan Heights Historic Overlay District
RHDC Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Neighborhoods in Raleigh, North Carolina Boylan family residences National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina {{RaleighNC-NRHP-stub

Notable structures

Notable residents

See also

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