South Park and southeast Raleigh

Raleigh's Black neighborhoods grew up south and east of downtown after the Civil War, around the two institutions that anchored them: Shaw University, founded in 1865, and Saint Augustine's, founded in 1867. The East Raleigh-South Park district has been on the National Register since 1990, and after the Second World War, when segregation kept Black buyers out of most new subdivisions, developments such as Rochester Heights and Madonna Acres were built for them and are listed on the Register now. Longview Gardens, east of downtown, is a postwar subdivision listed in 2011. 4 guides are listed below.

The part of this area nearest downtown is changing quickly, and it is where the City acts most directly as a developer. South Park sits under a neighborhood conservation overlay adopted in 2007, which holds lot sizes and setbacks as land values rise around it, and in College Park the City has been building and selling new houses on land it assembled, a share of them for buyers under an income limit. Further out the housing is mid-century ranch houses and later subdivisions. Walnut Creek and its tributaries run through the south of the area and flood, so the flood map is the first thing to check for any address near them.