Glen Royall Mill Village Historic District is a historic

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and national

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located at Wake Forest,

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. The district encompasses 82 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site built between about 1900 and 1949 and located in a residential section of the town of Wake Forest. It includes notable examples of

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style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed

Royall Cotton Mill Commissary Royall Cotton Mill Commissary is a historic commercial building associated with the Royall Mill and located at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. It built in 1900, and is a two-story, rectangular brick building with a low gabled metal roof ...

. Other notable buildings include the Royall Cotton Mill (1899-1900), the Powell-White House (1909-1910), and pyramidal cottages, triple-A cottages, and shotgun houses. The district was listed on the

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in 1999.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Geography of Wake County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina {{WakeCountyNC-NRHP-stub