Dowd Street

Photograph of 318 Dowd Street

318 Dowd Street

According to County Property records this house was built in 1925.

316 Dowd St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to County property records, this house was constructed in 1920.

412 Dowd St.

1981 Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002.

705 Dowd St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1936.

408 Dowd St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham Survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1925.

702 Dowd St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1930, however, no structure appears here on the 1937 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. The first resident listed at this address - in the 1941 city directory - was Edward Hobbs, a tobacco worker.

706 Dowd St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. County property records date construction of this house to 1945, but identical structures appear at this location on both 1937 and 1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

708 Dowd St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1925.

402 Dowd St.

1981 Visible in the background is Mt. Gilead Baptist Church, which acquired this house in 1993.

Mount Gilead Baptist Church / 404 Dowd Street

12.20.56 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Organized as a congregation in 1908, Mt. Gilead Baptist Church had its first dedicated structure just northwest of here on Lynchburg (later renamed Gurley) Street. When they moved to this location in fall 1918, the pastor was Rev. David Jones, who lived a block away at 311 Dowd. It appears that it was...