School

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)

Fuller School (1897-1937)

While I've previously profiled the first 'Graded School' constructed in Durham (i.e. public school,) private schools began in fits and starts - a log cabin school near the present intersection of Dillard and Main, classes in churches, etc. The first private school of substance in Durham began in 1852, on land donated by AJ Rigsbee at the current...

Little River High School

Little River HIgh School, 1950s (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 01.14.12

Temple Baptist / Healthy Start Academy

Temple Baptist Church, 2007 1895 During the early 1880s, Reverend C.C. Durham of the First Baptist Church began a movement to establish Sunday schools in other parts of the city. One of these was located in the house of J.W. Blackwell at 602 South Duke St. J.W. was the brother of W.T. Blackwell, who lived nearby on West Chapel Hill St. With the...

Southern Conservatory Of Music - Alston Ave.

One of my favorite recently-solved mysteries involves the location of the Southern Conservatory of Music once it left the southwest corner of Duke St. and West Main St. in 1924. I knew the SCM had moved to "Alston Avenue" - but I could not figure out where. This picture from the 1920s shows their 'new' building on Alston. (Courtesy Durham County...

Whitted Elementary School / Hillside High School

(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

East Durham Junior High / Holton School / Holton Center

Bulls at the East Durham Ballpark, 1913. From "Baseball's Hometown Teams: The Story of the Minor Leagues" by Bruce Chadwick By 1901 several local businessmen affiliated with the Durham Athletic Association attempted to pull together a team to play in the Virginia-Carolina league (or perhaps the Class C North Carolina League.) It seems that by 1902...

3912 Erwin Road

(N. Levy, 03.07.2019) This house on the right side of Erwin Road as you go southwest between 751 and Cornwallis had caught my eye a couple of times before I pulled over recently to snap the picture above. Efforts to crowd source information about the history of the property with a Find Out Friday posting on Open Durham social media - @opendurhamnc...

Whites Cross Roads School

Whites Cross Roads School, 1920s David Southern notes: The original White's Cross Roads was at the intersection of the misnamed Cornwallis Road and the New Hope Road, about a hundred yards to the west of the present-day Erwin and Cornwallis intersection. The New Hope Road (also known as old Chapel Hill Road, old Oxford Road, and University Road)...

Club Boulevard School

Rendering of Club Boulevard School, 1949. Club Boulevard School was built in 1950 - per the school website, Club Boulevard School was built in response to population growth after WWII, rapid development in Northgate Park, as well as overcrowding at George Watts and North Durham Schools.