Residential

A dormitory named for Professor John Spencer Bassett, most well-known for the 'Bassett Affair"

507 Fayetteville, 1963. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The African-American Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church was established near East Pettigrew and Fayetteville Sts. in the 1880s. Aside from a consistent...

Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with Hillsborough Road, this home had been occupied by the family of Theodore and Hosia Lewis Carden for a few years before the big selloff of Erwin Mills company housing in 1945. Unique among the surrounding mill...

09.04.11 From the 1985 National Register Historic District application for Morehead Hill: One of the most distinctive of the moderately-sized frame houses characterizing the northwest end of the Morehead Hill District. Now a duplex, it is one-and-one-half stories tall with a clipped gable roof and a two-tiered hip-roofed porch at the entrance bay...

Photograph taken by Preservation Durham volunteers, August 2002. According to Durham County property records, this home predates many of the others on the block, having been built around 1920. More precise dating is made difficult by the absence of street names in this part of town - essentially still farms at the northern edge of early Durham. In...

December 2021 (Photo by Tom Miller) This unassuming cottage on the unpaved northern portion of Virginia Avenue was the longtime home of Dr. Clotilde Schlayer, and the epicenter of a fascinating group of emigres, many of whom fled Nazi Germany to create new lives in Durham. Though German by background, Clotilde Schlayer was actually born in...

Durham County Tax Administration photograph, September 2017 . From the 1982 Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory (p.171, entry for 803 North Duke two doors south, built at the same time): "During the first decade of this [20th] century, the Pearl Cotton Mills built a row of one-story frame houses along the west side of the 800 block of N...

215 Parrish Place in 1939 (Courtesy of private family collection). Two brick apartment houses were added to a row of earlier homes along Parrish Place - on the south side of the street near its intersection with Ramseur - in the mid-1920s. According to the recollections of a resident who lived at 215 Parrish Place around 1940, "The house was...

"About 100 yds south of old Rigsbee Rd just west of its intersection with 751" - June 1940

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