id: us-nc-raleigh-state-capitol
name: North Carolina State Capitol
tradition: american_colonial
location:
  country: US
  region: North Carolina
  locality: Raleigh
  lat: 35.7804
  lon: -78.6391
built:
  from: 1833
  to: 1840
condition: occupied
definitions_met:
  fortified_residence:
    verdict: 'no'
    basis: A Greek Revival legislative building. Neither fortified nor a residence; it has
      no defensive works of any kind.
  palatial_seat:
    verdict: 'no'
    basis: A public government building, not a lordly residence, and it bears no castle-word
      in its name.
  popular_castle:
    verdict: 'no'
    basis: Nobody calls it a castle. It is called the State Capitol, by everyone, including
      itself.
  revival_folly:
    verdict: 'no'
    basis: Greek Revival rather than castle-form; it has no battlements, towers or curtain-wall
      silhouette.
  enclosure_fortification:
    verdict: 'no'
    basis: No enclosure of any kind. The band requires a bank, ditch, rampart or wall built
      to defend or command an enclosed area; the Capitol stands in an open public square with
      no defensive circuit.
  state_fortification:
    verdict: 'no'
    basis: A civil government building, not a military work.
disputed: false
first_seen: '2026-07-21'
last_updated: '2026-07-21'
confidence: high
sources:
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_State_Capitol
  title: North Carolina State Capitol
  publisher: Wikipedia
- url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995014
  title: Comment on 'The World's 2,400 Castles'
  publisher: Hacker News
  date: '2026-07-21'
  note: '"This dataset is bad. The North Carolina state capitol is a castle?"'
notes: 'Carried as a deliberate all-no record, which this dataset treats as a real finding
  rather than an empty one. It appears in thecastlemap and was named in the originating thread
  as evidence the dataset was broken. A structure scoring no on every band is exactly what
  a false positive looks like when it is written down, and being able to record one is a feature
  of the band model: a dataset with a single castle flag can only include or omit, never assess
  and reject with reasons.'