Dix Hill is the informal name for a high, rolling expanse of land and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located at

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. The district encompasses 18 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures. It includes notable examples of

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...

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, and

Stick Style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...

/ Eastlake movement architecture. The Dorothea Dix Hospital, a historic institution caring for the mentally ill, was located on the site. The hospital buildings were developed between about 1856 and 1940. It was listed on the

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in 1990. Dix Hill is referred to in David Sedaris's novel ''Naked''. It also appears in James Hurst's short story "

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" (first published July 1960 in ''

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National Register Historic Districts in Raleigh, North Carolina
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