A few days back I found myself stuck in traffic in NW, so I decided to pull off of Burnside, head North along 29th and do a nice hilly walk. I chose to start where Raleigh dead ends, up by Chapman gradeschool, the home of the flight of the
Swifts. Even though the area above and along Thurman, called Willamette Heights is quite posh, the areas I wandered are seemingly quite normal 'every-day-people' neighborhoods - lots of duplexes, apartments, rentals, many small early-century and mid-century homes, tons of condo communities, interspersed with the larger homes we think of when we think Upper Thurman and Willamette Heights. The tracts were MacClaey Park, Willamette Heights, Old Forest Commons, Exposition Commons. Condos run from $150, and houses up to $750K.
I ended up walking up 29th, over Thurman, and around Upshur into that little unknown pocket near MacClaey park that leads to another pocket behind Montgomery Park, on Wilson/33rd, and is cut off by industrial Nicolai. Of the houses currently on the market or recently sold, they seem to run in the high $300's and low $400's.
NOTE: I did not walk up Thurman to Aspen, or the area skirting Forest Park, known specifically as Willamette Heights.
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| Smaller mid-century homes |
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| Lots of apartments |
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| Neat duplex options |
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| One of the Grand Dames - my fav Italianate on Savier |
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| Loft conversions |
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| Tiny mediterraneans |
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| Huge FourSquares with a View (Raleigh) |
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| Mid-century Modest |
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| Ranches |
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| Slick Rides |
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| Historic Homes - MacClaey |
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| Mid-Mod Apartments |
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| My Hobbit Toes |
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| Apartments - Wilson |
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| Shotgun Shacks |
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| Chimney-cum-Rock-Climbing-Wall |
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| Mansions (Thurman) |
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