National Register Listing

Chavis, John, Memorial Park

a.k.a. Negro Park

505 Martin Luther King Blvd., Raleigh, NC
Local significance of the district:
Entertainment/recreation; Black; Landscape Architecture; Social History

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.