Midcentury Modern

1005 Crete Street

(Durham County Tax Records) This ranch-style house was built in the mid-1950s for the prominent African-American doctor Clemuel Durham Grandy, Sr., and his family. The property was a combination of lots for two adjacent, new developments that were underway at the time on the west side of Highway 55 south of Third Fork Creek. (Durham County Register...

Trinity Avenue YMCA / Duke Diet Center

When William Erwin (Jr?) decided in 1955 to give a large parcel of land just north of the Pearl Mill (across West Trinity Avenue) to the YMCA so that they could built a 'modern facility' to replace the original YMCA downtown, there remained one earlier structure on the site - the (Pearl Mill) Lyceum. "Erwin Gives Land to YMCA - 08.08.55" (Courtesy...

2512 Sevier Street

(~1963) Built by Geoge Birmingham in 1963, for Dr. Boyd T. Worde, his wife Katherine, and their two children. Photo taken very soon after its completion in 1963. 2 fireplaces: One in living room, the other in master bedroom, attached two car garage, full (finished) basement including fallout shelter, 4 bedrooms, 2 and one half baths. Land size: 22...

1205 Hanover St.

2012 John W. Sellers was resident in 1961.

1607 Peace St.

1956-2012 1956-2012 1956-2012 1956-2012 1956-2012 1956-2012 Renovated 2013. 2014 2014 2014 2014

National Guard Armory

1107 Gillette Ave.

2005 N. Duke St.

711 Rigsbee Ave.

From the National Register in italics below: The 1959 Durham City Directory lists the “GMAC Insurance Corporation” at 711 Rigsbee Avenue. The one-story, flat-roof brick office building of modest mid-century modern design is likely this office. The building is now adaptively reused as a bar known as "the bar." Red brick laid in running bond covers...

2413 Wrightwood

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