Dr. Lovelace B. Capehart
Dr. Lovelace B. Capehart was a prominent Black physician in Raleigh.
The original house his family lived in was built around 1924-25. Dr. Capehart was born in 1863 in Bertie County to a white father (considered “one of the most substantial white citizens of that section”) and slave mother, Penelope Capehart.
He attended the State Normal School in Elizabeth City and graduated from Shaw University in 1884. After completing a law degree at Shaw, he became a professor of English and also served as the third principal of Washington Graded School. He also taught at Jackson Baptist College in Mississippi before returning to Raleigh.
He attended Shaw University's Leonard School of Medicine. He began to practice medicine in 1907.
The other house that he lived in on Smithfield Street (now Martin Luther King Boulevard) was sold to Calvin Lightner in 1941 and became Lightner Funeral Home.
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