Source This beautiful building  sure had a lot of lives. Extra points if you know the story without even looking. Do you know all the names and functions it had over its long life. Sadly, this beau tiful W ake county landmark that our ancestors would have strolled past on a leisurely afternoon is no more. You can read the wonderful twists and turns of this beauty's history in this Goodnight Raleigh blogpost Baptist Female University - built in  Built in 1899 at the corner of Blount and Edenton streets. Baptist University for Women - name change in 1904. Meredith College - 1909 was renamed again, " i n honor of Thomas Meredith , founder of the Biblical Reporter (1835) and an early 19th century advocate of higher education for women". The college was  housed here until the mid 1920's when it relocated to the present location. Mansion Park Hotel - from the mid 1920's until sometime in the 1950's. The hotel advertised itself as Raleigh's ...