West Club Boulevard

Counsel-Arena House

From the National Register: Clyde Hardy House. 2-story Tudor Revival cottage with a side gabled roof with a gabled front wing, 6-over-1 sash windows, the original glazed and paneled front door, plain siding, and a gable end chimney. The corner porch has medieval style boxed posts and Tudor pediment over the entrance bay. 1940 CD: Clyde T. Hardy and...

Oval Park

"Oval Park Before Improvements, 05.02.49" (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 05.02.49 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 05.02.49

Berry-Auerbach House / 'The Compound'

Craftsman-style 2-story hipped-roof house with 2 interior chimneys built by Thomas Berry, now expanded into a 'compound' by David Auerbach, including multiple dwellings around a shared area.

West Club And Arbor

West Club Blvd., east from Arbor Street, May 1938 (Courtesy Duke Forest Collection) West Club Blvd., east from ~somewhere around where Arbor St. used to be., 06.26.10 (Copyright Endangered Durham)

Young-Cole-Couch House

Young-Cole-Couch House, 05.23.10. Thanks to Preservation Durham and Heather Wagner for supplying the following history The land on which the Cole-Couch house stands was owned initially by the W. P. Clements family. According to the 1905 deed for the property, the Clements owned an existing house on the adjacent property to the east, what was later...

Dc May House

Davis-May House, 1980 The land extending from Demerius Dollar's land (to give the origin of two TP street names - DD owned several tracts of land north and south of Club Blvd. along what became Dollar Ave.) to what became Norton St. was, in the 19th century, part of the large extent of WP Clements' land. He sold several lots to WH Young, who built...

1000-1100 West Club Blvd.

"Club Blvd. east from Watts St., May 1931." (Courtesy Duke Forest Collection) "Club Blvd. east from Watts St., May 1931." (Courtesy Duke Forest Collection) Looking east 05.23.10 Find this spot on a Google Map. 36.017011,-78.910137

Albans' Esso

The intersection of W. Club, Buchanan Blvd., and Guess Road used to be a bit messier (although undoubtedly quieter) than it is today. I'm not sure why it evolved in this way, since Buchanan used to be called Guess Road, but by the mid 20th century, Buchanan continued straight north of West Club, while Guess curved across W. Club to meet Watts St...

Walltown School

Walltown School, looking southeast from West Club Blvd., 1953 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Per the historic inventory, the Walltown Graded School was built in 1919 per the design of Durham architectural firm Linthicum and Linthicum on the corner of North Road (West Club Blvd.) and 3rd Street (Onslow St.) One of Durham's Rosenwald funded...

Watts Hospital (1909-1980) / North Carolina School Of Science And Math

George Watts-funded hospital became the primary hospital for white patients in Durham during the early to mid-20th century; it closed in the 1970s after the creation of Durham Regional Hospital and became the home for the new North Carolina School of Science and Math