Rogers-Bagley-Daniels-Pegues House is a historic home located at

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. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

-style frame dwelling with a low hipped roof and

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

-style accents. It has a hip roofed porch with

Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...

posts and bay windows. It was built by

Sion Hart Rogers Sion Hart Rogers (September 30, 1825 – August 14, 1874) was a U.S. Congressman and Attorney General of North Carolina. Biography Born near Raleigh, North Carolina in 1825, Rogers attended common schools in Wake County and attended the Unive ...

(1825-1874), a Congressman from and Attorney General of North Carolina. It was the home of

Josephus Daniels Josephus Daniels (May 18, 1862 – January 15, 1948) was an American newspaper editor and publisher from the 1880s until his death, who controlled Raleigh's ''News & Observer'', at the time North Carolina's largest newspaper, for decades. A D ...

(1862-1948) from about 1894 to 1913. It was listed on the

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in 1979.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1855 Houses in Raleigh, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina 1855 establishments in North Carolina {{RaleighNC-struct-stub