Dowd Street

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to property records, this duplex was constructed in 1959. Sanborn maps confirm there was no structure on this lot prior to 1950. Aerial photos confirm a building had been erected by 1960, though no residents are listed at this address in the city directory for that year.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. This house appears to have been built around 1914 by David Jones and his wife, Alice Daniel Jones - possibly replacing an earlier home built closer to the street on the same parcel. Originally from a large family in the Dutchville Township of neighboring Granville County, David Jones...

Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1944. In 2016, significant renovation and repairs were done, including to the facade, front porch and back deck. Durham County Department of Tax Administration, 9.27.2017.

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as lot 14 of the Geerwood Park Subdivision, PB5A/P74. Unusual combination of features, including short Tuscan columns with a solid porch rail, corbeling throughout the eaves, standing seam pitched roof across the front gable. This was the long-time home of Thomas J. and Bettie Thompson. Thomas (T. J.) purchased...

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as Lot 13 of the Geerwood Park subdivision (PB5A/P74), this property was purchased from the original developer by Adolphus and Dillie Jones in December 1915. Though the ostensible purchase price referenced on deeds is notoriously unreliable, the amount given in this case - $2,900 - makes it plausible that the...

February 2021 (N. Levy) - 910 Cleveland at left, 908 at right. County property records list the two similarly configured houses just southeast of the intersection of Cleveland and Dowd as having been constructed in 1925, but other evidence indicates they appeared earlier. Residents are listed at 908 as early as the 1903-1904 City Directory, with...

----- 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...

(12.18.2018 by N. Levy) A short block from Old Five Points, this century-old house was described as "contributing to but not included" in the Cleveland Street historic district when it was created in the 1980s. It lies just outside of this boundary as well as the adjacent Old North Durham historic district. A photographer for the Historic American...

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