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I j Page -20 consultant Davyd Foard Hood provided a comprehensive history of Pee Dee Avenue and the contractors and builders who helped to define its character . Located several blocks east of the State Capitol , the Mordecai Place Historic District emerged as one of several Raleigh suburbs developed between the world wars . Laid out primarily from 1916 to 1947 on land surrounding the mid-nineteenth-century Mordecai plantation house , the district contains dwellings based for the most part on published building plans , together with a few examples of architect-designed houses . Craftsman , Tudor Revival , Dutch Colonial , and minimal traditional-style dwellings lining tree-shaded streets contribute to the neighborhood ' s charm . Consultant Pat Dickinson, with research assistance from Helen P . Ross and Susan E . Holladay , prepared the nomination under the sponsorship of the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission . Distinctly different themes characterize the two urban districts . In the south-central Piedmont , the city of Concord sponsored a National Register nomination for the South Union Street Courthouse and Commercial Historic District . The fourteen-building district constitutes the town ' s historic commercial and governmental core and represents development from 1875 = 1876 , when the third Cabarrus County courthouse was constructed, to the mid- twentieth century . Consultant Laura A . W . Phillips explored the political and economic history of Concord that shaped this small but well-preserved section of downtown . In the eastern end of the state , the Greenville Historic Preservation Commission hired consultant Betsy Gohdes-Baten to prepare the nomination for the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District , a collection of impressive brick buildings that symbolizes the historic economic base of Pitt County . Several of the year ' s forty-two nominations addressed properties important to the state ' s lt in 1881 , the R. W . George Mill is a two-story frame corn mill on Big industrial history . Bui Creek in northern Stokes County . Representative of a small-scale industry important to the economic and social history of that rural community , it is the oldest surviving corn mill in the county . The Piedmont ' s industrial history is further illustrated by the Saxapahaw Spinning Mill , a brick complex on the Haw River in rural Alamance County started in 1880 and expanded throughout the twentieth century . Industrial development in Raleigh is illustrated by several properties , including the imposing tripartite-form brick Raleigh Electric Company Power House built ca . 1910 and expanded around 1930 , and the Art Deco-influenced (former) Carolina Power, & Light Company Car Barn and Automobile Garage, constructed in 1925 . When constructed in 1928 , the cream- colored brick (former) Pine State Creamery, an Art Moderne building designed and erected by prolific local contractor James A . Davidson, symbolized the most up-to-date processing and distribution of dairy products in central North Carolina. The 1941 (former) Royal Baking Company, a utilitarian brick building exhibiting International-Style design elements , represents the industrial growth that occurred in the capital city in the post-depression era.