Revised Draft Report: Historic Architecture Survey Update of Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly Springs, Wake County, North Carolina, November 24, 2015

New South Associates, Inc.

From introduction: "This report summarizes the findings of the Historic Architecture Survey Update of Apex, Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs, Wake County, North Carolina (Figure 1). This survey, conducted in 2014-2015, is the first part of a phased project designed to update the architectural survey records for nine of Wake County’s 12 municipalities. The corporate city limits and extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJ) of Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly Springs were included in this phase. Districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) were excluded. The project was funded by Wake County (County) with a federal matching grant from the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) administered by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (HPO). The total cost of the project was $25,000. In June 2015, the County was awarded a second matching grant to survey the municipalities of Knightdale, Wendell, and Rolesville in eastern Wake County. This subsequent phase is expected to begin in the fall of 2015. New South Associates, Inc. (New South) was awarded the contract for the survey update of Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly Springs in November 2014. Ellen Turco served as Principal Investigator; Debra Bevin served as field assistant and David Diener was the GIS Specialist. Gary Roth, staff for the Wake County Historic Preservation Commission (HPC), and Claudia Brown, Survey and National Register Branch Supervisor and Architectural Survey Coordinator for the HPO, supervised the project. Work was conducted between December 2014 and September 2015. This report summarizes the findings of the survey update, which documented approximately 487 resources, including historic districts, agricultural landscapes, and individual properties. The primary goals of the project were to document changes (such as demolitions, additions, and other alterations), that have occurred to previously documented resources since 2005, to document any previously unrecorded properties from any time period more than 50 years ago that now merit documentation, and to record a limited number of superlative 1960s and 1970s resources. This update of the architectural survey will support future planning efforts and identify areas and resources potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP, local historic landmark designation, or other preservation measures." Funding was provided in part by a 2015 Historic Preservation Fund grant to Wake County (project number NC-14-016) administered by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P14AF00082) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Wake County, North Carolina is a Certified Local Government.

Revised Draft Report: Historic Architecture Survey Update of Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly Springs, Wake County, North Carolina, November 24, 2015

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