Masonry

McDougald Terrace

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...

Lowes Grove School

Innovative school provided a center for once-rural community. Now almost entirely demolished.

George Watts House - Harwood Hall

Harwood Hall, 1920s. (From "Favored by Fortune" by Howard Covington) The title of Howard Covington's book about the Watts and Hills of Durham- "Favored by Fortune" - seems somewhat trite at first glance, but it is an apt description of George Watts' entry into the gentry of Durham. When your father buys you a 1/5 share in the Duke and Sons Tobacco...

Budd House - 903 S. Duke

W. P. Budd, a partner in the Budd-Piper Roofing Company, commissioned Raleigh architect Murray Nelson to design this two-and-one-half-story Tudor Revival style house in the late 1920s. One of the first domestic projects by noted Durham contractor George W. Kane, the house exhibits handsome Tudoresque elements throughout.

Welfare Department

"Public Welfare" was established in Durham in 1919, after passage of the Public Welfare Law by the NC General Assembly. Prior to that time, 'welfare' (and I'm not sure what it entirely consisted of at that point) was managed by the Salvation Army.

Lakewood Baptist Church

Former Lakewood Baptist Building

511 Yates Street / St. Paul's Lutheran Church / 500 Block Yates Avenue

Yates Avenue ran between West Chapel Hill St. and West Pettigrew St. - one of the core north-south streets of the West End - a neighborhood whose early residential core seems to have been concentrated along the Burch Avenue east-west axis between Yates and Milton (later renamed Buchanan.) The most prominent structure in the 500 block of Yates Ave...

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...

Durham Electric Lighting Co.

Looking southwest near the intersection of E. Peabody and S. Roxboro (actually closer to Pine St., which did not originally line up with Roxboro, but terminated at the tracks just a bit further east,) 1890. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

119 East Main Street

Looking northeast from the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The first brick structures on the north side of the 100 block of East Main St. were built during late 1880s-early 1890s, including the midblock structures of 113-119 E. Main. 119 East Main notably included the Rawls Store, which later became the...