School

View of the former Wyche House, now the Royall Center at NC School of Science and Mathematics

Wyche House - Watts Hospital

(The information below in italics is from the Historic Preservation Society of Durham Plaque Application for the Wyche House) Built in Spanish Mission style by George W. Watts for the Watts School of Nursing. Kendall, Taylor & Co of Boston, Architects. Named for superintendent Mary Wyche Rehabilitated in 2003 for N.C. School of Science and...

First George Watts House / Calvert (durham) Academy

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 purchase the land on the eastern side of Duke St., directly across from their houses, to build worker...

W.G. Pearson Elementary / Middle School

WG Pearson School, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Designed by George Watts Carr, Sr. the WG Pearson Elementary School was built in 1928. It is one of the most impressive of the 1920s-1930s era school buildings, both in terms of the building architecture and the relation of the building to the site and the surrounding neighborhood, as...

St. Mark's Ame Zion (1922-1954)

---- Looking north from the present-day location of Rolling Hills, ~1910. The St. Mark Church is visible in the foreground. Other prominent structures visible in the distance include (left to right) the Trust Building, the Hotel Carrolina, First Baptist Church, Fire Station #1, Union Station, the original Durham County Courthouse, Trinity Methodist...

St. Mark's Ame Zion (1954-)

Looking north from the present-day location of Rolling Hills, ~1910. The St. Mark Church is visible in the foreground. Other prominent structures visible in the distance include (left to right) the Trust Building, the Hotel Carrolina, First Baptist Church, Fire Station #1, Union Station, the original Durham County Courthouse, Trinity Methodist, the...

Forest Hills Clubhouse

The center of the Forest Hills community and the golf course in the 1920s, the clubhouse would become a school, a library, and a community center in subsequent lives.

Old Morehead School

Morehead School, 1924 (from the Durham High School Messenger, via Milo Pyne) The Morehead School, 1924. (Digital Durham) Public schools were established in Durham in 1882 using leased space in the Wright Factory building on Main St. The Durham Graded School, on Jackson St. between Carr and Warren Sts., was Durham's first dedicated public school...

East End Graded School

----- Original East End School, ~1910s (Courtesy Durham Public Schools) The East End Graded School, built in 1909, was the third graded school established for African-American children in Durham, after the Whitted School (at Ramsey and Proctor Streets in Hayti) and the West End Graded School. The locations of these schools reflected the locations...

Whitted School - Ramsey Street (1893-1921)

The first graded school for African-American children was built on Ramsey St. in 1893. Named the Whitted School after the first school principal, the school had operated out of temporary venues prior to construction of its new building, first using the Primitive Baptist Church and then a prize house on Red Cross St (now under the footprint of the...

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.