Apartment Building

McDougald Terrace

McDougald Terrace was developed on vacant land east of Hayti and NCCU as part of large-scale public housing development in Durham, funded and authorized by the Housing Act of 1949. Two major, racially-segregated projects were developed in the early 1950s - Few Gardens, for white residents, McDougald Terrace, for African-American residents. Looking...

215 Hood St. / Parrish Place

215 Parrish Place in 1939 (Courtesy of private family collection). Two brick apartment houses were added to a row of earlier homes along Parrish Place - on the south side of the street near its intersection with Ramseur - in the mid-1920s. According to the recollections of a resident who lived at 215 Parrish Place around 1940, "The house was...

217 Hood St

Looking east, 1981. (Courtesy Robby Delius) I've always had a particular affection for the 1920s-era, Colonial Revival apartment building on Hood St. Although as late as the 1980s, above, there was an adjacent apartment building as well, for the time that I've known the building, it has stood alone amidst the warehouses. I used to wonder what in...

1314 Hill St.

02.27.2012 (City of Durham) 08.27.2019 (G. Kueber)

1011 N. Mangum St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (Below in italics is from the 1985 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two story square Italianate house of brick with roof supported by large brackets. Two story porch across half of front facade and roofless one story section extending farther...

908-912 West Trinity Avenue – Town And Campus Apartments

(N. Levy, 02.05.2019) Looking northeast, the adjacent Trinity Apartments - built in 1928 - closer to the street to the right. (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two-story, twenty-unit brick-veneered apartment building, constructed 1965.

The Eloise

As the Sanborn maps I've shown in previous posts demostrate, large single family homes lined both sides of West Chapel Hill St. during the early 20th century. Per the Historic Inventory, in 1928, Dr. Baird Brooks commissioned well-known Durham architect George Watts Carr to build an apartment building that also held Dr. Brooks' medical office on the northwest corner of Gregson St. and West Chapel Hill St., which he called "The Eloise."

Erwin Apartments

The most impressive of the various 1930s apartment buildings of Trinity Park.

810 Clarendon Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Plain two-story brick-veneered building with small sliding windows. Built 1950s or 1960s.

The Manchester

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Also begun by F.M. Tilley, this four-plex is identical to the Rollins Apartments except that the front porches to the north units have been sensitively altered by enclosure with windows and French doors. Completed by former N.C. Gov. William B...