Five Points · NC 27608 · National Register Historic District
Hayes Barton
Raleigh's classic 1920s garden suburb, with winding streets designed by Earle Sumner Draper, brick Colonial Revival homes and a walk to Five Points.
Real Estate
Market snapshot
Based on 18 single-family sales in Hayes Barton and Hayes Barton Terrace in Triangle MLS, Oct 2025 – Oct 2026. Updated October 20, 2026.
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Life in Hayes Barton
Hayes Barton is one of the most walkable addresses in Raleigh. Five Points, parks and old-oak streets are right outside your door, and downtown is a short drive away.
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Schools serving Hayes Barton
Recent MLS listings for Hayes Barton show different elementary assignments by street (Underwood and Root), with Oberlin Middle and Needham B. Broughton High. Assignments can change, so always confirm the specific address with the WCPSS school locator before writing an offer.
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Neighborhood history
A 1920s garden suburb
Hayes Barton was created in 1920 on Fairview Farm, a rural showplace north of downtown. Real estate brothers Dan, Frank and William Allen convinced the landowners to sell, and formed the Fairview Company with Col. (later General) Albert Lyman Cox to develop about 175 acres. They named it after Hayes Barton, Sir Walter Raleigh's birthplace in Devon, England.
Landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper, who also designed Myers Park in Charlotte, laid out the neighborhood with streets that follow the land's contours, small parks and creek greenways. Nearly half the homes went up in the 1920s, many designed by noted architects including Thomas W. Cooper, William H. Deitrick, Atwood & Nash and James A. Salter. Cooper designed the Mount Vernon replica at 901 Holt Drive in 1924.
Like many suburbs of its time, Hayes Barton's original covenants restricted who could live there. Over the years it has been home to two North Carolina governors, three U.S. senators and Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Who built it
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Hayes Barton's homes were built by some of Raleigh's best-known builders of the 1920s and '30s, and a few top custom builders are adding new homes today.
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