Oakwood is a nineteenth century neighborhood and historic district located near downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. The neighborhood includes hundreds of homes in a variety of architectural styles. Many have been painstakingly restored and preserved to maintain their original stature and beauty. Additionally, many residents are avid gardeners and have created and maintained wonderful gardens. Sidewalks and trees line the quiet streets. Historic Oakwood Website.

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The Five Points Neighborhood includes the neighborhoods of Bloomsbury, Vanguard Park, Hayes Barton and Roanoke Park. Located directly north of the Glenwood neighborhood and to the northwest of central Raleigh, the area is roughly bounded on the west by Saint Mary’s St., on the north by Byrd and Oxford Streets, and on the east by White Oak Rd., Reaves Dr. and Carson St., and on the south by the Norfolk-Southern (formerly Norfolk and Western) railroad, present-day Wade Ave., and historically, the large parkland of the Methodist Orphanage. Glenwood Ave. intersects with Fairview Rd. and Whitaker Mill Rd. creating the Five Points intersection.

Boylan Heights is a historic neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on July 29, 1985. Its name was used for the 1987 album Boylan Heights by The Connells.

The Hayes Barton Historic District is a neighborhood located northwest of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. The Hayes Barton,  neighborhood was designed by landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, it contains 457 buildings on 1,750 acres (7.1 km2). The neighborhood design includes roads fitted to the contours of the land and features several public parks. The Hayes Barton boundaries are St. Mary's Street, Fairview Road, Aycock Street, Scales Street, and Williamson Drive. In 2002, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Mordecai Place, like Raleigh's other early twentieth-century suburbs, occupies land that had been part of an antebellum plantation. The original plantation house, built in the eighteenth century and heavily altered in the Greek Revival style around 1824, survives and is open to the public as a house museum at Mordecai Historic Park. The early suburb that developed on sold and subdivided plantation land features a rich variety of the architectural styles popular in the first decades of the twentieth century, including the prolific Colonial Revival houses and Craftsman bungalows as well as the romantic revival styles like Tudor Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Spanish Mission Revival, and Italian Renaissance Revival. There are also a few examples of a more typically rural vernacular style, the two-story, side-gabled dwelling known as an I-house. Towards the middle of the twentieth century, smaller Cape Cods and Minimal Traditional houses were built.