Public Housing

McDougald Terrace was developed on vacant land east of Hayti and NCCU as part of large-scale public housing development in Durham, funded and authorized by the Housing Act of 1949. Two major, racially-segregated projects were developed in the early 1950s - Few Gardens, for white residents, McDougald Terrace, for African-American residents. Looking...

Clipping of units nearing completion from The Durham Sun, 7.10.1971 (From a scrapbook collection, courtesy of Durham Housing Authority) Planned from the mid-1960s with the help of federal funding for both clearing existing structures and constructing public housing, the Liberty Street Apartments covered a site of roughly 9.25 acres just to the east...

On the northeast corner of Main and Dillard streets is this imposing structure. Looking north, November 2018.

Looking northeast from Proctor and S. Duke - site of the old George Watts home / Durham Academy, 01.01.08 Eugene Morehead and George Watts were pioneers in the area that would become Morehead Hill when they built their houses on the western side of Lee (later Duke) St. in 1880. As the activity in the neighborhood increased, WT Blackwell sought to...