Long Meadow Park 07.18.60 "Children Playing at Long Meadow, 06.17.55" (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Long Meadow Park was established in 1932 through the donation of land by John Sprunt Hill to the City of Durham; the park was initially segregated, accessible only to whites. East End Park was established at the same time (also donated by Hill) one block to the... Holloway Street School The Holloway Street school was built in 1928, designed by Durham architects Rose and Rose. Rear wings were added to the school in 1950 and 1954. A gymnasium was added in 1975. 314 N. Hyde Park Ave. - Pentacostal Holiness (Below in italics is from the 2004 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Pentecostal Holiness Church. Front-gabled brick sanctuary, 1 bay wide and 7 bays deep, with a Gothic arched entrance and an octagonal stained glass window in the upper facade. Side windows have stained glass sashes. Flanking 1-story wings are... 1801 East Main Street - Advent Christian Church One of my favorite small church structures in Durham, the building at 1801 East Main Street originally housed the Advent Christian Church. It was built in the early 1920s, and is the only church of that vintage still standing in East Durham. By 1944, it housed the "House of Prayer," which remained here at least through the 1960s. It currently... East Durham Junior High / Holton School / Holton Center Bulls at the East Durham Ballpark, 1913. From "Baseball's Hometown Teams: The Story of the Minor Leagues" by Bruce Chadwick By 1901 several local businessmen affiliated with the Durham Athletic Association attempted to pull together a team to play in the Virginia-Carolina league (or perhaps the Class C North Carolina League.) It seems that by 1902... Carr United Methodist - 107 N. Driver Street North Driver and East Main Street, looking north, 1946. Carr United Methodist is partly visible on the left, before the completion of the sanctuary in 1949. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) East Durham Graded School / Y.E. Smith School ---- East Durham Graded School, 1898 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The earliest schools in East Durham were two one-room schoolhouses - one, called the Cherry Grove School, was located near the present-day intersection of Liberty St. and North Driver St. The second was the Oak Grove School, located south of the railroad tracks... Angier Avenue Baptist Church Angier Avenue Baptist, along with Carr Methodist, traces its origins to the establishment of East Durham in the 1880s. In 1886, two years after the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, RT Howerton of the First Baptist Church organized Sunday School classes in one of two original schoolhouses in East Durham - the Oak Grove... Carr United Methodist And Parsonage - East Peabody Carr United Methodist Church - 1900 (Courtesy Rod Mullen) Carr United Methodist church began out of the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company in East Durham. Julian Carr, who, along with the Dukes was a lifelong Methodist, provided the funds to establish the church on the north side of the railroad tracks, across from the factory... East Durham School/415 Sowell Street This is the former location of the East Durham School, also called East Durham Colored School. The deplorable conditions found in the school were fairly well documented. (former) Ebenezer Baptist Church 05.08.11 I repeatedly would see the back of this old church from the Durham Freeway while driving under the R. Kelly Bryant bridge - I finally explored this little strip of land between East Pettigrew until I found it and the north side of the bridge. Per the website of the current congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church was established in 1909... Commonwealth / Branson / Asbury Temple United Methodist Looking southeast from Aniger Avenue and South Alston, 1926. (From "Durham: Center of Industry and Education") Likely my favorite church building in Durham, the Asbury Temple United Methodist church was built around 1925 on the southeast corner of Angier Avenue and Alston Avenue. Simple neoclassical wings extending at right angles toward Angier and... Add new comment Log in or register to post comments.
Long Meadow Park 07.18.60 "Children Playing at Long Meadow, 06.17.55" (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Long Meadow Park was established in 1932 through the donation of land by John Sprunt Hill to the City of Durham; the park was initially segregated, accessible only to whites. East End Park was established at the same time (also donated by Hill) one block to the...
Holloway Street School The Holloway Street school was built in 1928, designed by Durham architects Rose and Rose. Rear wings were added to the school in 1950 and 1954. A gymnasium was added in 1975.
314 N. Hyde Park Ave. - Pentacostal Holiness (Below in italics is from the 2004 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Pentecostal Holiness Church. Front-gabled brick sanctuary, 1 bay wide and 7 bays deep, with a Gothic arched entrance and an octagonal stained glass window in the upper facade. Side windows have stained glass sashes. Flanking 1-story wings are...
1801 East Main Street - Advent Christian Church One of my favorite small church structures in Durham, the building at 1801 East Main Street originally housed the Advent Christian Church. It was built in the early 1920s, and is the only church of that vintage still standing in East Durham. By 1944, it housed the "House of Prayer," which remained here at least through the 1960s. It currently...
East Durham Junior High / Holton School / Holton Center Bulls at the East Durham Ballpark, 1913. From "Baseball's Hometown Teams: The Story of the Minor Leagues" by Bruce Chadwick By 1901 several local businessmen affiliated with the Durham Athletic Association attempted to pull together a team to play in the Virginia-Carolina league (or perhaps the Class C North Carolina League.) It seems that by 1902...
Carr United Methodist - 107 N. Driver Street North Driver and East Main Street, looking north, 1946. Carr United Methodist is partly visible on the left, before the completion of the sanctuary in 1949. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)
East Durham Graded School / Y.E. Smith School ---- East Durham Graded School, 1898 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The earliest schools in East Durham were two one-room schoolhouses - one, called the Cherry Grove School, was located near the present-day intersection of Liberty St. and North Driver St. The second was the Oak Grove School, located south of the railroad tracks...
Angier Avenue Baptist Church Angier Avenue Baptist, along with Carr Methodist, traces its origins to the establishment of East Durham in the 1880s. In 1886, two years after the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, RT Howerton of the First Baptist Church organized Sunday School classes in one of two original schoolhouses in East Durham - the Oak Grove...
Carr United Methodist And Parsonage - East Peabody Carr United Methodist Church - 1900 (Courtesy Rod Mullen) Carr United Methodist church began out of the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company in East Durham. Julian Carr, who, along with the Dukes was a lifelong Methodist, provided the funds to establish the church on the north side of the railroad tracks, across from the factory...
East Durham School/415 Sowell Street This is the former location of the East Durham School, also called East Durham Colored School. The deplorable conditions found in the school were fairly well documented.
(former) Ebenezer Baptist Church 05.08.11 I repeatedly would see the back of this old church from the Durham Freeway while driving under the R. Kelly Bryant bridge - I finally explored this little strip of land between East Pettigrew until I found it and the north side of the bridge. Per the website of the current congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church was established in 1909...
Commonwealth / Branson / Asbury Temple United Methodist Looking southeast from Aniger Avenue and South Alston, 1926. (From "Durham: Center of Industry and Education") Likely my favorite church building in Durham, the Asbury Temple United Methodist church was built around 1925 on the southeast corner of Angier Avenue and Alston Avenue. Simple neoclassical wings extending at right angles toward Angier and...
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