09/29/2025
Check out this post about the history of the Hawkins Mansion in Downtown Raleigh. We have the carriage house currently listed for sale at 406 E. Lane Street in Historic Oakwood. It is a perfect home for history lovers!!!
The Dr. William J. Hawkins mansion at 406 North Blount Street is seen here in September of 1967, just days before its demolition.
This Second Empire house was designed by George S. H. Appleget (of Heck-Andrews House fame) for Dr. William J. Hawkins, a physician and president of Citizens National Bank.
Construction on the home and its associated carriage house began in early 1879. Tradesmen of all varieties worked on the structure for over two years, partially due to a damaging fire in August of 1880. The fire was confined to the third story, likely due to quick actions of firefighters and the home's floors having been laid in cement.
The Hawkins' moved into the home in the fall of 1881.
Originally, the home displayed a four-story tower which was removed sometime in the 1940s. By the 1950s, the home had been divided into apartments and was later purchased by the State in the mid-1960s and razed in 1967 for State government expansion.
The home's matching mansard roofed carriage house, which originally faced North Street, survives in Oakwood at 406 East Lane Street. This structure was moved there in 1913 to make way for an apartment building.
As of just yesterday, the carriage house is on the market for the first time in 47 years. Link to listing in comments.
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From the N&O Negative Collection, State Archives of North Carolina. Photo copyrighted by the News and Observer. Illegal to use without express permission from the N&O.
