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I'm Don Davis and I'm the chair of the
Raleigh historic development commission

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otherwise known as R H D C And what we do
is we preserve Riley's history through

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its building which we think is important
because you can't know where you're going

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if you don't know where you came from and
so we believe in preserving that tells

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you where we bought this
house in particular tell us

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a bit about. History in the
United States and it's from

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a particular period the late forty's
after the Depression you know people go

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through the Depression they got through
World War two And you know there'd been two

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decades of really rough life and after the
war ended there was great optimism for

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the future what was going to happen things
were going on we were going to do great

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you know the future was out there and
this house was the future and that it was

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manufactured it's made. It so you never
had to paint and the interiors you didn't

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have to paint you know it was the carefree
living not the Jetsons before the

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Jetsons we would say this is actually what
this house was and for us it's important

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to preserve this part
of American history in

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a part of Raleigh history that
people these houses they came in on

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a truck and an erector
sets all you mean like

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a wrench to screw it all together and
then you have this great house and it's

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a terrific modernist architecture piece
of American history. And Theda as

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a neighbor of joy. Says I grew up in this
area and I've known her all of my life

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and when they stop traveling this
is what they decided to be it was

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a mail order catalog they had the
concrete. And there are parts

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numbered and it showed how just to put
the house together and if I remember

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correctly it was construct. Going
into it three days to see it was just

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a kid that you put up but the thing about
ideas there's no maintenance they never

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had to paint it they never had to worry
about termites and the hate in system

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lasted in this house for fifty years
my name is Cameron Jones I am the land

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operations manager for Terra
more homes when we were on

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a contract to purchase property
we found out that there was

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a horse store called residence on the
property at the time of which the previous

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owner made efforts to preserve the house
after we closed on the property in the

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previous developer resign the property we
continued those efforts to preserve this

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house and found

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a new home in downtown Raleigh so the
developer I can say that we have never seen

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a home like this in fact never have even
heard of it was true so I learned that

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outside of the concrete
footing that it sits on

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a slab the framing is all steel which is
very abnormal to for this here and these

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were prefab homes for the folks
coming back after work to give them

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a home when they got back to the US I am
delighted this town has been the state in

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fifth grade the neighborhood hangout everybody
was welcome Sunday school classes to

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church kindergarten classes things you're
adults would this was where everybody was

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welcome and everybody's going to get the
idea that they are safe in the house.