Built between about 1946 and 1949,[2] the district currently encompasses 87 contributing buildings.

The subdivision was platted in 1946 and developed as a result of the postwar housing demand.

Its homes are homogenous in form and design: small one-story two- and three-bedroom houses constructed in the Minimal Traditional style.

Ernest I. Clancy and George Henry Wright were the primary builders of the Capitol Heights neighborhood.

Today the neighborhood represents one of the best-preserved post-war speculative subdivisions in Raleigh.