The eclectic Caveness Residence shows the influence of several architectural styles prevalent in the early 20th century. The rectilinear massing, with low hip roof and center dormer, is typical of the "American four-square," while its horizontal orientation, brick belt banding and stone trimmed terrace suggest the influence of the Prairie school of architecture. The buff brick construction and wide overhanging eaves link the house to Spanish colonial revival or "Mediterranean" styles also popular at the time. The Colonial revival is evident in the neoclassical exterior cornice and interior details. The rear kitchen wing features a gambrel roof, found on many Dutch colonial revival houses of the period.

Ca. 1925, preliminary drawings were made for a new residence in a style variously described as "manoir," "French eclectic", and "Norman Revival." Characteristic features include stone and half-timbered construction, a high pitched hip roof, and classical treatment of the main entryway.

The South Building was constructed on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill between 1798 and 1814. Extensive additions to the campus in the 1920s included the remodeling of South Building, which stood at the northern end of a new north/south quadrangle. Under the direction of the New York architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White, supervising architect Arthur Nash and engineer Thomas C. Atwood were responsible for many of the new buildings and alterations made on UNC's campus during this period.

Alterations to the South Building included the addition of a portico on the south facade, as well as new doorways and classical ornamentation.

The Haywood Store Building was constructed in Raleigh in 1925 to replace several earlier commercial buildings. The simple 3-story brick and steel structure featured space for stores on the ground floor, and unpartitioned spaces above.

The ground floor facade was redesigned in the popular Art Deco style for Fallon's Florist around 1942.

Architect Paul Rudolph described the modernist Burroughs Wellcome Building as a "man made extension of the ridge upon which it is built." With its many angled set-backs and overhangs, the building was expressly designed to accomadate additions to any section without compromising the integrity of the original design.

The Fadum House is one of several Modernist houses built in Raleigh from the 1940s to the 1960s. These houses were the manifestation of architectural concepts embraced by the faculty of the School of Design, established in 1948 at North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State University). The Fadum House has a single-slope flat roof supported by large, built-up wood columns, giving it a wedge-shaped section. Built on a two by four module, the house displays finishes throughout of exposed brick, stained and sealed plywood, or tongue-and-groove pine, cypress or redwood. Its deeply cantilevered overhangs, orientation to the southeast, and large expanses of glass allow for supplemental solar heating in the winter. Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian mode of design, the Fadum House presents a mostly blank facade with carport toward the street, while opening up elevations toward a natural site on the sides and rear. Usonian design is characterized by small scale, affordable construction, open plan interiors, integration of interior and exterior spaces, flat roof and large glazed areas such as windows and doors. In 1952 the Fadum House was featured as the House of the Year in . It is a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark.