RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — On the 500 block of South Wilmington Street in downtown Raleigh lies a part of the city that a hundred years ago was a thriving community of black professionals and homeowners — eager for success after slavery.
Today, only one home remains. Once owned by one of North Carolina’s first black medical doctors. ABC11 Together was given an all-access look inside the house that Dr. Pope built.
Most drivers speed north into downtown Raleigh on Wilmington Street — without even a glance to the right to notice the now lonely home on the 500 block. The Pope House, once the beacon of black life in Raleigh is buried in a canyon of high rises and skyscrapers.
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