Colonial Revival

Temple Baptist / Healthy Start Academy

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...

105 W. Knox St.

(Courtesy Alex Maness) Text in italics from the writeup for the 2011 Preservation Durham House Tour: Richard. H. Wright II House (Whitehall Terrace), 1929 and 1940 105 West Knox Street George Watts Carr designed this two-story frame Colonial Revival style house in 1929 for Richard H. Wright II, [...] and his wife, Helen Scanlon, the daughter of the...

Plyer-Raba House

(11.16.2017 - Durham County Tax Administration photo) In italics below from the 2004 filing for the Trinity Park National Register Historic District boundary increase that included this property: Rev. Marion T. Plyler House. Colonial Revival-style 2-story brick house with side-gabled roof and flanking flat-roofed wings with wooden roof balustrades...

1810 Cedar St. - John Adams Buchanan House

(Photo courtesy of Durham County Tax Administration) By the late 1930s, John Adams Buchanan had risen to the pinnacle of Durham's business, civic and social worlds. He had organized the company which built and operated the Washington Duke Hotel, he founded the Home Building and Loan Association and his Home Insurance Agency was the largest...

Brock-Nabors-Crockett House

08.28.11 The current occupants of this home have applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application, prepared by Tom Miller in May 2017. The House The house at 2115 West Club Boulevard was built in 1921 for the Thomas Hubbard Brock family. The building contractors for...

Fire Station #2 (ninth Street)

By the 1950s, the growth of population westward, the envelopment of West Durham into the City of Durham, and the scaling of fire equipment necessitated a new fire station for Company #2, which had been located amongst the Liggett Warehouses on West Main St. since 1906 The Ninth Street property was purchased by the City from the heirs of Mrs. Ida...

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Skinner Jr. House

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): After growing up on Hermitage Court in Forest Hills, Charles R. Skinner Jr. bought land not far away on Sycamore Street to build his house. The timing was fortuitous, Skinner, who went by “Chas,” bought...

1104 N. Mangum St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) 2000's

1102 N. Mangum St.

(Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

Christian-Wynne House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) A small frame grocery sat at this corner until the mid 1920s; it was listed as Page and Page Grocery in the 1924 City Directory. Soon thereafter, the grocery was demolished and a two story Colonial Revival home was built. From the 1985 North Durham-Duke Park NR nomination: Two story...