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.

Foushee House, June 6, 1956, looking southwest. The Foushee House, also known as "The Terraces", was built for Judge Howard Foushee between 1911 and 1915. The house was designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Linton Leary, who moved to Durham in 1890 to design the Washington Duke building at Trinity College (which later burned) and St. Jospeh's...

Durham High School --- Brodie Duke's house, 1883. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Brodie Duke, the eldest of Washington Duke's children, was the first of the Duke clan to recognize the potential of Durham in expanding tobacco production and transport. Brodie was born in 1846, the second child of Washington Duke and Mary...

The Southern Conservatory of Music was built in 1898 on the southwest corner of Duke and West Main Streets. Per the great-granddaughter of the founder, Gilmore Ward Bryant, Washington Duke invited 'GW' to Durham to "bring more culture" to the city and financed the construction of the conservatory across Duke St. from his house, Fairview. Architects...

The Holloway Street school was built in 1928, designed by Durham architects Rose and Rose. Rear wings were added to the school in 1950 and 1954. A gymnasium was added in 1975.

Brogen Middle School was built in the late 1950s, opening in 1959. An unidentified homesite stood on the land prior to the construction of the school. "Ruins on Site of Brogden High School", 12.10.47 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) "Ruins on Site of Brogden High School", 12.10.47 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) "Ruins on Site of Brogden...