Dormitory

--- Trinity Park High School, 1904, looking east-northeast, with Lanier Hall, Branson Hall, and the Asbury Building in view. (Courtesy State Archives) In other posts on this website, I've detailed the slow creation of an adequate school system in Durham, which consisted of a patchwork of private tutors and schools and rural schoolhouses until the...

Looking west at the intersection of Trent Dr. and Erwin Rd., 1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The erstwhile dormitories clustered around the intersection of Trent Drive and Erwin Road were built between 1942 and 1951; for a period of time, this cluster was known as 'North Campus' - an appellation it appears to have shed at this point.