Religious

420 East Piedmont Avenue - Gospel Tabernacle United Holy Church

June 1965 - Photograph from Durham Urban Renewal Records Collection, Durham County Library, North Carolina Collection. Built on the site of a wooden church dating back to the early 20th century, the new Gospel Tabernacle United Holy Church was dedicated in memory of its longtime minister, Reverend Henry L. Fisher. Rev. Fisher also served for years...

Avila Retreat Center

The main entrance to the Avila Retreat Center, 7.28.2019 (N. Levy) In 1957, a widowed schoolteacher named Lola Latta Terry and her son sold over forty acres west of the road to Roxboro to the Carmelite order of Catholic nuns, who appear to have begun building this facility soon thereafter. It remained in the possession of the Carmelites until 1980...

Foushee House

Foushee House, June 6, 1956, looking southwest. The Foushee House, also known as "The Terraces", was built for Judge Howard Foushee between 1911 and 1915. The house was designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Linton Leary, who moved to Durham in 1890 to design the Washington Duke building at Trinity College (which later burned) and St. Jospeh's...

First Baptist Church (1927 - )

I've recounted the history of the First Baptist Church in Durham in detail here. The church decided to move from its N. Mangum St. location during the 1920s and construct a larger sanctuary on Cleveland St. Although Cleveland St. was a residential neighborhood of large well-appointed houses, it appears that there was a previous Primitive Baptist...

415 N. Hyde Park Avenue

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Dallas Alford House. 2-story hipped roof house with 6-over-1 sash windows and a gabled 1-story 3-bay-wide Craftsman porch. All-over vinyl siding. This is now the Emmanuel Bible Institute, as well as being a dwelling. 1935-1940 CDs...

1309 Lincoln Street – Seventh Day Adventist Church

This front-gabled Colonial Revival church features a one-bay-wide, projecting, front-gabled entrance, with a sanctuary behind it. The building, the second on the site, was erected as the Seventh Day Adventist Church in 1954; it is currently occupied by the Lincoln Community Development Center.

1306 Lincoln Street – Covenant United Presbyterian Church

This large, brick Colonial Revival church stands at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Massey Streets with prominent façades facing each street. The building was erected as Covenant United Presbyterian Church in 1948; it is currently occupied by First Chronicles Community Church.

409 Dunstan Ave. – Kyles Temple Ame Zion Church

This large, front-gabled church has a square tower at the front east corner, and a one-story, shed-roofed ell across the rear. The church is of brick construction with a brick water table and an exterior chimney at the west rear. One cornerstone states the Church was organized in 1929; it was offshoot of nearby St. Mark’s A.M.E. Church and was named for Bishop Linwood Westinghouse Kyles, the presiding prelate of the Central North Carolina A.M.E Church Conference, who organized the church in 1929. A second cornerstone indicates a 1930 construction date.

Lida Duke Angier House

106 North Buchanan Boulevard, 06.16.58 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Lida Duke Angier moved to the house at 106 North Buchanan Boulevard after the death of her husband, John Angier, around 1910. She and her husband had previously lived in the Angier-Satterfield House on West Pettigrew Street. It's currently occupied by the Wesley House - a...