West Club Boulevard

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.

Hixon-Barton House

08.28.11 Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. Below, in italics, from the 2001 National Register Historic District nomination for Watts-Hillandale: Hixon-Barton House. Side...

W.A. and Lessie R. Lyon House

Photograph taken in 2016 for Preservation Durham home tour brochure. Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. The description in italics below was written for the same 2016 tour...

Walter A. Biggs House

2116 W. Club Blvd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): The Biggs House near Oval Park in Watts...

Hillandale Country Club

(Courtesy John Schelp) Around the turn of the 20th century, John Sprunt Hill acquired several hundred acres west of Durham (which he referred to as "that old Jones Land".) Like all of Durham's wealthiest men of the period, Hill established a gentleman's farm. Unlike most of them, he had a strong genuine interest in the economics of farming, and...

616 West Club Boulevard

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...

Ford-Swartz House

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): The house was built in 1948 for Willard C. and Maude Ford. Willard Ford operated the Ford Metal Molding Company, a successful metal fabrication business with offices in Manhattan and a plant in New Jersey...

2217 West Club Blvd.

J. T. Kerr Jr. House. 1 1/2-story stuccoed English Cottage with a side gable roof with clipped gables, interior and front chimneys, exposed rafter tails and brackets, and 4-over-1 Craftsman windows. A bracketed arched hood tops the original paneled door and the engaged side porch with ladder posts has French doors. Another set of French doors open...

Club Boulevard School

Rendering of Club Boulevard School, 1949. Club Boulevard School was built in 1950 - per the school website, Club Boulevard School was built in response to population growth after WWII, rapid development in Northgate Park, as well as overcrowding at George Watts and North Durham Schools.