McDougald Terrace

35.974707, -78.890408

East Lawson Street

Durham

NC

Cross Street

Year built

1954

Architects/Designers

Carr, George Watts Sr.

Construction type

Neighborhood

Southern Durham

Use

Apartment Building

Building Type

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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 northeast from NCCU towards the Durham Cotton Mfg Co buildings - the tree-filled area in between would become McDougald Terrace

From near Ellis Road, looking west-northwest, pre-McDougald Terrace, late 1940s.

Few Gardens was completed in 1952-53, and McDougald Terrace in 1954.

Similar view to the east-looking bird's eye above, with a new McDougald Terrace in the background.

1959 aerial

McDougald Terrace, 04.07.12 (looking north from East Lawson).

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Submitted by staravengers on Mon, 6/30/2014 - 4:14pm

i did not know that......!!!

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