OLD MOREHEAD SCHOOL

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OLD MOREHEAD SCHOOL

111
Jackson Street
,
Durham
NC
Cross street: 
Warren Street
built in
1920
/ demolished in
1967
Architectural style: 
Art Deco
Construction type: 
Masonry
Neighborhood: 
West End
Type: 
School
Use: 
School

Recent Comments

  • This part of town is so, by Jonn at Wed, 02/22/2012 - 9:21am
  • I attended this School in the, by Milo_Pyne at Wed, 02/22/2012 - 8:13pm
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Submitted by Jonn on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 9:21am

This part of town is so underutilized and poorly planned, glad this post sheds a light on how that happened. I've recently thought about buying a house in Lyon Park but it just feels so cut off from downtown by big lots, one way streets and the freeway. Its ridiculous that a house one mile from downtown feels so unwalkable/unbikeable.

That original school was a beauty.

Submitted by Milo_Pyne on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 8:13pm

I attended this School in the first and second grade (1956-1958). It was a very imposing building... I remember walking to school on Jackson Street, years before there was a freeway! Yancey Street went down a steep slope (as did Duke), and it was a dramatic sledding hill?

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  • Wed, 02/22/2012 - 9:02am by gary

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35° 59' 40.8264" N, 78° 54' 21.1464" W
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Submitted by gary on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 7:09pm