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  • Create and Edit Content on Open Durham

    Durham's history is your history! This database expands and improves when you add all of your pictures, commentary, corrections, information and ideas! Click on the "Create and Edit" link above to learn more.

  • Richmond Allen House

    An eclectic, late 19th century house built by carpenter Richmond Allen - unfortunately unrecognized as valuable by the community prior to its demolition in 2008.

  • Norfolk Southern Depot

    The old Norfolk Southern depot was located east of downtown on the dirt one-block extension of Fayetteville Street north of the railroad tracks.

  • Edmund Burke Hopson House

    Thought long demolished, this house hidden in the woods was revealed in October 2012 - but will be demolished imminently

  • The Trotter Building

    Once a dealership for Kaiser-Frazer automobiles, this building on West Geer defines adaptive reuse - becoming Blue Cross Blue Shield, home to the North Carolina Fund, and ultimately, the Trotter building - an event and retail hub in the Central Park district.

  • Zion Tabernacle

    Snake-handling in downtown Durham? You betcha. You could still see the building as recently as 2008, when the county tore it down

  • 102 Morris Street

    One of the oldest, yet fairly anonymous buildings in downtown, 102 Morris is in the midst of an exciting renovation.

  • Battle of the Golf Course Suburbs

    The Masters has nothing on this contest.

  • Lustrons of Durham

    A short-lived boom of post-war, prefab, porcelain-enamled steel housing - 5 of which survive in Durham

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    WILLIAM T. BLACKWELL HOUSE
    By luketheplumber9... on 09/25/2018 - 7:42pm
    as for the house?
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    By luketheplumber9... on 09/14/2018 - 2:20pm
    I am going to camelot as of 2018 and the building is a little neglected but pretty well intact for...
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    CASTLE MONT ROUGE
    By luketheplumber9... on 09/10/2018 - 12:04am
    the castle is abandoned now and I don't think it was ever completed  
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    812 YANCEY ST. - CARRIE L. WOOD HOUSE
    By alen31 on 09/05/2018 - 3:59pm
    Renovated 2017  Gutted and updated to current code. House is now 2,105 sq/ft. with large backyard...
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    810 Burch Ave. - Leigh House
    By alen31 on 09/05/2018 - 3:31pm
    Correction - 6/2018
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