Museum

Nature / Children's Museum - Northgate Park

Built in the 1930s for park ranger use, the so-called Lavender House in Northgate Park was the mid-1940s home of the Durham Children's Museum, before it moved to larger quarters and eventually became the Museum of Life and Science. Long used for storage, the wooden frame was demolished after repeated flooding in 2014, with the stonework left behind as a kind of memorial.

Piper-Cox House

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Museum Of Life And Science

The "Children's Museum" moved north from its previous home in the Hester House on Georgia Avenue in Watts-Hillandale in 1961 and was rechristened "The Museum of Life and Science."

Science Building / Duke Art Museum / Friedl Building

Built as the Science Building for the Women's College, the building was renovated in 1969 to become the home for the Duke University Museum of Art. In 2004, the collection was moved to the Nasher Museum, and the building was again renovated to house "Cultural Anthropology, Literature, African and African-American Studies, Latino/a Studies, Critical US Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center."

Hester House - Children's Museum

(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Simeon J. Hester purchased 576.5 acres of land in West Durham from William Willard in the 1870s; whether Hester built the house he would inhabit after his purchase is unknown, but architecturally, the house appears to be an early to mid 19th century structure with late 19th century embellishments/additions. Most...

Duke Homestead

Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factories, 1890s. (Courtesy Durham County Library

McCown-Mangum House / West Point On The Eno

---- Christian's (West Point) Mill, 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection - Wyatt Dixon Collection) West Point may the most persistently relevant site in Durham - a place of importance to Native Americans, early European settlers, and present-day residents of Durham. The West Point area was well-known to the Eno Indians, who...