Wakelon was designed by architect Charles E. Hartge and was built in 1908.

[2] It served as an elementary school until the student population became too large for the facility.

GlaxoSmithKline purchased Wakelon School from the Town of Zebulon in 1986 and used the building for office space.

In March 2007 voters approved to repurchase Wakelon to be used as the new town hall.

This article about a property in Wake County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.