Neoclassical Revival

Victor Bryant House

Victor Bryant House, late 1970s.

1402 Holloway / Rowland-Gregory House / Agape School

Rowland-Gregory House, late 1960s (Courtesy Durham County Library) Below in quotes per the 1982 Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory, p.87 - not verified for accuracy by this author: "The principal stylistic elements of the two-story hip-roofed house consist of Doric columns supporting the wraparound porch and porte cochere, a Palladian...

Stallings-Walter House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (Below in italics is from the 1985 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Around 1910, tobacco warehousemen Maynard Mangum and U.T. Umstead hired contractor Lonnie Glosson to construct this house which they sold to Carl Stallings, an executive in the...

Fidelity Bank - West Durham / Bruegger's

One-time West Durham branch for the Fidelity Bank, headquartered in downtown Durham, this Rose and Rose designed neoclassical structure became a Wachovia branch when Wachovia absorbed Fidelity in 1956, and, after the construction of a new Wachovia branch across the street, long-time home to Bruegger's Bagels.

318 South Driver Street - Fidelity Bank East Durham Branch

The East Durham branch of a bank that was once a Durham powerhouse.

Washington Duke Hotel / Jack Tar Hotel

The grand hotel of Durham for 50 years - and one of the worst architectural losses in Durham history

First Baptist Church (1927 - )

I've recounted the history of the First Baptist Church in Durham in detail here. The church decided to move from its N. Mangum St. location during the 1920s and construct a larger sanctuary on Cleveland St. Although Cleveland St. was a residential neighborhood of large well-appointed houses, it appears that there was a previous Primitive Baptist...

North Carolina Mutual / Mechanics And Farmers

North Carolina Mutual Insurance Co. was established in 1898 as the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association by John Merrick, Dr. AM Moore, PW Dawkins, DT Watson, WP Pearson, EA Johnson, and Dr. James E Shepard. This coalition of men appears to have grown out of the Grand United Order of the True Reformers, a mutual-benefit society founded in...

Central High School / Durham High School / Durham School Of The Arts

Durham High School --- Brodie Duke's house, 1883. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Brodie Duke, the eldest of Washington Duke's children, was the first of the Duke clan to recognize the potential of Durham in expanding tobacco production and transport. Brodie was born in 1846, the second child of Washington Duke and Mary...

116 West Main St. / Merchants Bank

The Bossom-designed Merchants Bank building, built after the fire of 1914, was a beautiful neoclassical structure that later housed the Hood Industrial Bank and First Union Bank. Sadly, the beautiful facade was entirely removed in the 1960s when First Union moved.