Georgian Revival

A dormitory named for Professor John Spencer Bassett, most well-known for the 'Bassett Affair"

----- 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...

One of the earliest masonry structures built in what is now the core of downtown, west of Corcoran St. was the Armory Building, built ~1895. Looking east on West Main St., 1900. Two two-story buildings are on the right side of the street - the more elaborate of the two, with the flanking square turrets projecting from the second floor, is the...

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Handsome 2-story Georgian Revival-style house with random rusticated stone walls, a hipped roof, and an extetior end chinmey. Other features are an entrance with sidelights, an elliptical-arched entrance porch with boxed fluted...

George and Jean Brumley House, 1971 3415 Surrey Road

Completed in 1939, the Georgian Revival style building was part of the school's Public Works Administration-sponsored campus building campaign. A slightly modified version of Annie Day Shepard Hall, it lacks a gable above the entrance pavillion and the balustrade on the frame Tuscan portico. Unlike Shepard Hall, however, the fanlight at the main entrance is leaded.

1950 Music and Fine Arts Building, 05.24.11

Part of the post-WWII campus expansion.

Built in 1951 as a new men's dormitory - then a ways out from the bulk of the campus - Chidley's view of the football field has been rather compromised of late.