Community Center

South-facing entrance of Walltown Park Recreation Center, January 2023

Walltown Park Recreation Center

A multipurpose Durham Parks and Recreation facility hosting a full slate of community programs and events, the present structure was built from 2009-2011 on the site of an older community center that dated back to 1949. More information about facilities and programming is available on the DPR website.

Forest Hills Clubhouse

The center of the Forest Hills community and the golf course in the 1920s, the clubhouse would become a school, a library, and a community center in subsequent lives.

418-422 East Pettigrew / The Wonderland Theater

Wonderland Theater, looking southwest from East Pettigrew and Ramsey Streets, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The Wonderland Theater was built in 1920 by Frederick K. Watkins, self-described "Movie King" (his house at 1218 Fayetteville St. still bears this description) at the southwest corner of East Pettigrew Street and Ramsey Street.

Lyon Park School

Lyon Park School, likely 1930s (William Franklin Warren Collection, Durham County Library) Lyon Park School, 1950s (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 04.03.11 (G. Kueber)

Foushee House

Foushee House, June 6, 1956, looking southwest. The Foushee House, also known as "The Terraces", was built for Judge Howard Foushee between 1911 and 1915. The house was designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Linton Leary, who moved to Durham in 1890 to design the Washington Duke building at Trinity College (which later burned) and St. Jospeh's...

Trinity Avenue YMCA / Duke Diet Center

When William Erwin (Jr?) decided in 1955 to give a large parcel of land just north of the Pearl Mill (across West Trinity Avenue) to the YMCA so that they could built a 'modern facility' to replace the original YMCA downtown, there remained one earlier structure on the site - the (Pearl Mill) Lyceum. "Erwin Gives Land to YMCA - 08.08.55" (Courtesy...

Robert Fitzgerald House / Pauli Murray House

The most prominent African-American family in the West End during the early 20th century was undoubtedly the Fitzgerald family. If you've never read the book "Proud Shoes" by Pauli Murray, I highly recommend it; the book is a fascinating story of the Fitzgerald family, West End, and, more broadly, issues of race and Durham during the early 20th century.

Pearl Mill Lyceum

Looking north from Trinity Avenue, 02.18.57 When William Erwin (Jr?) decided in 1955 to give a large parcel of land just north of the Pearl Mill (across West Trinity Avenue) to the YMCA so that they could built a 'modern facility' to replace the original YMCA downtown, there remained one earlier structure on the site - the (Pearl Mill) Lyceum. The...

1309 Lincoln Street – Seventh Day Adventist Church

This front-gabled Colonial Revival church features a one-bay-wide, projecting, front-gabled entrance, with a sanctuary behind it. The building, the second on the site, was erected as the Seventh Day Adventist Church in 1954; it is currently occupied by the Lincoln Community Development Center.

White(s) Cross (roads) Community Center

~2004 Former White(s) Cross(roads) Community Center, now a private residence. 05.22.11 Find this spot on a Google Map. 35.992795,-78.98207