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DUKE MEMORIAL METHODIST
502The home church of the Duke family, this congregation began at Gregson and West Main before moving to this impressive Duke-funded edifice in 1912.West Chapel Hill StreetCross street: South Duke...
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LIGGETT AND MYERS NEW CIGARETTE FACTORY
701West Main StreetCross street: South Duke StreetDurhamBusinesses: Liggett and Myers Tobacco CompanyNC1948---The site just to the west of the first Duke Factory was Washington Duke's first in-town...
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1102-1104 HOLLOWAY STREET
1102-1104Holloway StreetCross street: North Hyde Park AvenueDurhamNC1920-19301102-1104 Holloway Street, 10.02.101102-1104 Holloway appears to have been built between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, "B's Home...
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2114 FAYETTEVILLE STREET
2114Fayetteville StreetDurhamNC1930Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, December 2017 Among the oldest houses on this part of Fayetteville Street, this...
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406 W. KNOX ST.
406West Knox StreetDurhamNC1940406 West Knox, 08.06.2020 (N. Levy). According to property records, this home was constructed in 1940.Architectural style: Period CottageConstruction type: Brick and...
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601 N. ELM ST.
601North Elm StreetCross street: Hopkins StreetDurhamNC1900-19201999 (Durham County tax office) 04.20.2021 (N. Levy)Architectural style: Triple AConstruction type: FrameNeighborhood: Morning GloryType:...
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1217 N. HYDE PARK AVE.
1217North Hyde Park AvenueCross street: Juniper StreetDurhamNC1935Looking southwest at 1217 N. Hyde Park Ave., 08.24.2021 (N. Levy). County property records date this bungalow to 1935, but it seems...
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738 RUTHERFORD ST.
738Rutherford StreetCross street: Hillsborough RoadDurhamNC1909Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with...
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711 BOLTON ST.
711Bolton StreetDurhamNC1930Undated photo (c.1980s?) found prior to demolition. Triple-A roofed house, likely the latest of this group to be built or moved to this location, dated in County records to...
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719 BOLTON ST.
719Bolton StreetDurhamNC1900-1913719 Bolton Street prior to demolition in summer 2022 (N. Levy). Triple-A roofed house, seemingly outlined on Sanborn Maps by 1913, but dated in County records to 1925....
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PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH (AFRICAN-AMERICAN)
505Fayetteville StreetDurhamNC1880-1890 1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The African-American Pilgrim Primitive Baptist...
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507 FAYETTEVILLE STREET
507Fayetteville StreetDurhamNC1900-1920 507 Fayetteville, 1963. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew....
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Cordice, Dr. John Walter Vincent
Photo of Dr. Cordice, c.1940 (State Archives of North Carolina) From "Durham and Her People," 1950:Dr. JWV Cordice was born at St. Vincent, British West Indies, on November 21, 1881, the son of James...
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1503 FAYETTEVILLE STREET – DR. J. W. V. CORDICE HOUSE
1503This two-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting two-story hip-roofed bay on the north elevation and a two-story, gabled rear ell on the southeast corner. The...
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801 S. ALSTON AVE.
801South Alston AvenueCross street: Linwood AvenueDurhamNC1927Durham County Tax Administration photo, September 2017. The history of South Alston Avenue deserves more attention than it has gotten to...
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BASSETT DORMITORY
A dormitory named for Professor John Spencer Bassett, most well-known for the 'Bassett Affair"Architect/Designers: Abele, Julian, Trumbauer, HoraceDurhamBusinesses: Duke UniversityNCPeople: Bassett,...
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BASSETT HOUSE
1017West Trinity AvenueDurhamNCPeople: Bassett, John Spencer1891 1902 Trinity College map. (Courtesy Duke Archives / Digitized by Digital Durham) One of the four (out of an original five) surviving...
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LOCHMOOR
4804Lochmoor was most well known as the 'country estate' of Edward James Parrish, Durham's first tobacco auctioneer, and builder of the first brick warehouse in Durham.North Roxboro RoadDurhamNCPeople:...
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615 GRANT ST.
615Grant StreetDurhamNC1900-1913 Though county property records date the house at 615 Grant to 1920, the structure resembles those appearing on Sanborn Maps at this location back to 1913. Land here at...
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VICTOR BRYANT HOUSE
707Morehead AvenueCross street: Vickers AvenueDurhamNCPeople: Bryant, Victor, Sr., Underwood, Norman1911-1915 Victor Bryant House, late 1970s. Victor Bryant, a prominent lawyer in Durham and one-time...
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