Fayetteville Street

Beechwood Cemetery

04.05.2010, Grave of Matthew Christmas, likely relocated to Beechwood, with the later-relocated White Rock Baptist Church in the background (Photo credit: Nephets - online at commons.wikimedia.org). For more than 50 years after Durham was founded, the city provided no public cemetery for its African American residents. Maplewood Cemetery - created...

National Religious Training School And Chatauqua / North Carolina Central University

Through the perseverance of James Shepard, a small religious training school becomes a state university

Holy Cross Church

African-American Catholic Church located on Alston Avenue from the mid-20th century until moved for NCCU's expansion in 2010.

1503 Fayetteville Street – Dr. J. W. V. Cordice House

This 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 earliest known occupant is Dr. John W. V. Cordice in 1925.

507 Fayetteville Street

507 Fayetteville, 1963. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The African-American Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church was established near East Pettigrew and Fayetteville Sts. in the 1880s. Aside from a consistent...

Primitive Baptist Church (African American)

1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company)

2114 Fayetteville Street

Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, December 2017 Among the oldest houses on this part of Fayetteville Street, this one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is currently being renovated. It is three bays wide and triple-pile with a full-width gabled rear wing. The house has German-profile...

1610 Fayetteville Street – Felicia D. Miller House

This two-story, hip-roofed Foursquare house is two bays wide and double-pile with a one-story, gabled rear ell on the northwest corner. County tax records date the building to 1926; the earliest known occupant is Felicia D. Miller (clerk, Bankers Fire Insurance Company) in 1930.

707-709 Fayetteville

707-709 Fayetteville, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Scanned by Digital Durham)

1512 Fayetteville St.

August 2007, from Google Streetview. 07.24.08