Kent Street

Wt Blackwell Grave

Thomas Decatur Jones Monument

Spanish-American Memorial Grave

This monument to three men was built in Maplewood Cemetery in 1902. 04.23.14 (G. Kueber) Text Reads: "Erected by a Grateful Community TO THE MEMORY OF Wm. Matthew Barbee Rufus V. Stem George M. Eubanks. Members of Co. I. 1st NC Vols. USA Who Nobly Laid Their Lives Upon Their Country's Altar During the Spanish-American War AD 1898 When The Republic...

Eugene Morehead Grave Monument

Duke Family Mausoleum

Confederate Veterans Memorial / Graves

04.23.14 04.23.14 (Gun is a naval gun dating to the Spanish-American war. Would be interested in further info on the gun.) 04.23.14

Lyon Park School

Lyon Park School, likely 1930s (William Franklin Warren Collection, Durham County Library) Lyon Park School, 1950s (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 04.03.11 (G. Kueber)

Maplewood Cemetery

(Courtesy University of North Carolina Library, North Carolina Collection) Maplewood Cemetery was established in 1872 by the purchase of an empty field of land to the west of the city limits. William H. Willard was paid $1500 for the land. Prior to establishment of the cemetery, people had been buried in the churchyards of their particular church...

Fitzgerald Building

The Fitzgerald building, which the architectural inventory describes as "one of the most auspicious structures in West End" was built in 1910 by Richard Fitzgerald, successful brickmaker who had built his own house, The Maples, nearby at Wilkerson and Gattis. The building stands at the curve of Kent St. to the south from West Chapel Hill St., and...

Emmanuel Ame

2006 - (G. Kueber) The Emmanuel AME church on Kent St., near the intersection of Kent and Chapel Hill St., is the oldest brick church building in Durham, constructed in 1888 on land donated by the Fitzgerald family. The church is now covered in stucco, obscuring most of the original brickwork, but some can still be seen on the tower. Most of the...