Church

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 growth in population in the West End...

Until recently an art studio and now opening as a coffee shop, 1004 Morning Glory started life as the Free Will Baptist Church, built sometime before 1919.

White Rock Baptist Church figures in the earliest origins of Hayti, organized in 1866 in the home of Mrs. Margaret Faucette, following a series of house-to-house prayer meetings. These meetings became services conducted by the Reverend Zuck Horton. Following his pastorate, Reverend Samuel Hunt, the second pastor, held services for what was then known as the "First Baptist Church" in a cotton gin on Elm Street and in a warehouse on Peabody Street.

Designed by noted ecclesiastical architect James M. McMichael, Edgemont Baptist was completed in 1915, and was the dominant church in the Edgemont community. It remained home to that congregation until 1989.

(Courtesy Duke Archives)

I've recounted the history of the First Baptist Church in Durham in detail here. The church decided to move from its N. Mangum St. location during the 1920s and construct a larger sanctuary on Cleveland St. Although Cleveland St. was a residential neighborhood of large well-appointed houses, it appears that there was a previous Primitive Baptist...

Looking southeast from Aniger Avenue and South Alston, 1926. (From "Durham: Center of Industry and Education") Likely my favorite church building in Durham, the Asbury Temple United Methodist church was built around 1925 on the southeast corner of Angier Avenue and Alston Avenue. Simple neoclassical wings extending at right angles toward Angier and...