Gorman

Gorman Baptist Church (painted 1966)

Gorman Baptist Church

First established as Piney Grove Baptist Church on then Fish Dam Rd (now Hamlin Rd) in 1894 on a plot owned by Luico Nichols. this religious community has endured many social changes. Excuse this article's incompletion, the place-holder draft appears to have self-published on 5/31 after a period of inactivity. I have yet to complete the final draft...

Lake Ridge Aero Park

Not everyone is aware that there is an airport subdivision in eastern Durham county; Lake Ridge Airport, on the shore of Falls Lake near the Durham County line is Durham County's own little airport - no having to share it with the "R" next door. Residences have their backyards facing on the airstrip - I presume if you enjoy door-to-door convenience with your small plane, this is ideal. 10.10.10

Cleveland Bragg House

Both the three black-and-white photos and the text in italics are from the Durham County Historic Architecture Inventory (NE-8 and NE-9). Either fertilizer magnate S. T. Morgan or William D. Holloway may have been the first owner of Durham County’s fanciest Triple-A I-house. Cleveland Bragg, a prosperous tobacco farmer with whom the house is...

Morgan-Clark House

Once among the most stylish residences in northeast Durham County, this mid-nineteenth- century frame I-house with a low hip roof was demolished several years ago. In an area of relatively modest houses, this one was notable for its paired Italianate two-over-two windows and its paneled double-leaf entry door with sidelights and transom; all were...

Harry Morgan House And Store

The Harry Morgan Family Complex, a rectangular, hip-roofed, one-story box-and-canopy store and a Craftsman-style house, typify the house and business ensembles constructed to serve automobile travelers on newly improved roads in Durham County during the 1920s and 30s. The canopy projecting from the main facade of the store is characteristic of an...

Charles Husketh House

Charles Husketh, a prominent farmer in the Gorman area, built this one story, double-pile house in 1918. He and his wife had three daughters, one of whom still resides in the house, and another who is the present owner. Husketh donated the land to Gorman Baptist Church where the present sanctuary and cemetery are located: he is buried there. The...

Oscar Durham House

This unusual center chimney house sits on a tract known locally as the Oscar Durham Farm. Deed records show that the property belonged to Oscar Durham in the second decade of the twentieth century. It later passed to W.W. Edwards, Sr., who sold the farm to the present owner, William R. Walker about 1955. The two-story double-pile residence exhibits...

Redwood School

Redwood School, 1910

Glenn School

Glenn School, 1910s Glenn School, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Glenn School, in the above incarnation, appears to have been built ~1930. In 1993, the buildings were demolished and replaced with a new elementary school Glenn School, June 1993. (Courtesy Robby Delius) Glenn School, July 1993. (Courtesy Robby Delius) Glenn School, July...

Gorman

Another small crossroads community in eastern Durham, onetime Wake County, Gorman mostly a railroad crossing and a church now, but I like the persistence of the small triple-A roofline house by the tracks. Gorman Baptist Church, 10.10.10 House at Red Mill Road and the RR tracks, 10.10.10