Church

Looking north from the present-day location of Rolling Hills, ~1910. The St. Mark Church is visible in the foreground. Other prominent structures visible in the distance include (left to right) the Trust Building, the Hotel Carrolina, First Baptist Church, Fire Station #1, Union Station, the original Durham County Courthouse, Trinity Methodist, the...

210 Gray Avenue as Greater Harvest Pentecostal Holy Bible Church of God, September 2017 (Durham County Tax Administration) This building was originally constructed in the mid-1920s as the "sanitary plant" for a laundry company, Sanitary Dry Cleaning, Inc - apparently an off-site facility for a business with a storefront at 114 North Church. A man...

June 1965 - Photograph from Durham Urban Renewal Records Collection, Durham County Library, North Carolina Collection. Built on the site of a wooden church dating back to the early 20th century, the new Gospel Tabernacle United Holy Church was dedicated in memory of its longtime minister, Reverend Henry L. Fisher. Rev. Fisher also served for years...

The main entrance to the Avila Retreat Center, 7.28.2019 (N. Levy) In 1957, a widowed schoolteacher named Lola Latta Terry and her son sold over forty acres west of the road to Roxboro to the Carmelite order of Catholic nuns, who appear to have begun building this facility soon thereafter. It remained in the possession of the Carmelites until 1980...

Scan of an 1890s tintype image. Courtesy of Durham County Library, Durham Historic Photographic Archives (Mattie Bagley, contributor). Not to be confused with the white congregation of the same name (and formed in the same decade), the West Durham Baptist Church organized in 1892 in a single-room structure on Ferrell Street in the Brookstown...

Temple Baptist Church, 2007 1895 During the early 1880s, Reverend C.C. Durham of the First Baptist Church began a movement to establish Sunday schools in other parts of the city. One of these was located in the house of J.W. Blackwell at 602 South Duke St. J.W. was the brother of W.T. Blackwell, who lived nearby on West Chapel Hill St. With the...