Cameron Park is a historic neighborhood just west of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, one of three suburbs platted in the early 20th century. It’s one of Raleigh’s most affluent neighborhoods. Governor Roy Cooper has a home there as well as the state’s attorney general

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and N.C. State’s chancellor

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. Development began along

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and moved north; a streetcar line along Hillsborough made the location especially appealing and convenient. Cameron Park's developers used restrictive deed covenants that set minimum house prices, created setbacks from the street, and excluded African Americans from living in the neighborhood (except as live-in domestic employees). Advertisements for Cameron Park openly recruited socially ambitious upper-middle class residents to the neighborhood, and land and house values were significantly higher than those of other early suburbs. The neighborhood is architecturally varied, featuring Queen Anne and Colonial Revivals, large

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s, and more eclectic styles like Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, and

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. Despite the stylistic variety, houses were uniformly large and upscale for the era. Cameron Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as a national

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. It encompasses 274 contributing buildings and was originally developed between about 1910 and 1935.

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National Register Historic Districts in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Cameron Park Historic District
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Guide to the Blueprint plat of Cameron Park neighborhood 1910
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 National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina {{RaleighNC-NRHP-stub

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