City of Raleigh News Release - Crabtree Jones House Tours

Jayne Kirkpatrick, Director, Public Affairs
Prepared by:  Christopher Riley, Senior Public Affairs Specialist

May 29, 2013

For more information: Martha Hobbs Lauer, Planning and Development, 919-996-2649

Crabtree Jones House Tours Saturday and Sunday

 

Preservation North Carolina is conducting tours of the historic Crabtree Jones House located at 3105 Wake Forest.

The tours will be conducted this Saturday, June 1, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 2, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. No RSVP required, a donation of $10 is payable at the door.  For additional information on the location, parking and other logistics, visit http://www.presnc.org/index.php.

The Crabtree Jones House was built approximately 1795 and is a Federal-style plantation house that features molded weatherboards, modillion cornices, Flemish bond chimneys and six-panel doors. Nathaniel Jones, an early Wake County settler, built the dwelling. Today, the wooded site is an eighteenth-century island surrounded by late twentieth- and early twenty-first century commercial and industrial development. The Crabtree Jones House, designated a Raleigh Historic Landmark in 1968, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.  Preservation North Carolina will move the house later this summer to save it from demolition.

In February, the Raleigh City Council voted unanimously to approve a $100,000 loan for the relocation of the Crabtree Jones House. The Raleigh Historic Development Commission (RHDC) requested the loan from the City’s Preservation Revolving Loan Fund. The funds, in turn, will be lent by RHDC to the nonprofit Preservation North Carolina for the purchase of a lot at 3108 Hillmer Drive, to which the Crabtree Jones House will be moved from its current location. The lot on Hillmer Drive is still part of the original Jones plantation property and is located a short distance from the current site and the Jones family cemetery.

RHDC also supported the project by commissioning a report submitted to the National Park Service, which has resulted in the house remaining listed in the National Register of Historic Places through its relocation. A full National Register nomination update will be completed by RHDC following the house’s relocation.

Learn About:

Preservation North Carolina

Raleigh Historic Development Commission