Ferrell Street

West End Graded School

The West End Graded School was one of the first three public graded schools for African-American children in Durham's segregated school system. The first school for African-American children was the Whitted School, which located in a Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. prize house on Red Cross Street (essentially where the DBAP is now) and the Primitive Baptist Church before a permanent structure was erected on Ramsey and Proctor Sts., in Hayti.

West Durham Baptist Church (black Congregation, First)

Scan of an 1890s tintype image. Courtesy of Durham County Library, Durham Historic Photographic Archives (Mattie Bagley, contributor). Not to be confused with the white congregation of the same name (and formed in the same decade), the West Durham Baptist Church organized in 1892 in a single-room structure on Ferrell Street in the Brookstown...

1016 Ferrell Street

1012-1016 Ferrell Street, 1968. 1016 is the leftmost structure. (Courtesy Bob Blake) 11.06.11

Smith Warehouse

The Smith Warehouse, built in 1906, was the largest of the Duke & Sons tobacco warehouses, used for the storage of tobacco prior to processing. Below, a view from the Washington Duke building at Trinity College (now East Campus) looking south, prior to the construction of the Smith Warehouse across the railroad tracks. The sizable two-story...