Your Story Is Part of Durham History.

This resource - an online community archive of Durham people and places - is built by and for the community. A project of the local non-profit Preservation Durham, it helps trace the evolution of our city block-by-block, building-by-building, story-by-story. Your experiences and recollections, your words and images not only matter, they are crucial to documenting and sharing this rich legacy. Browse what others have already contributed, and create an account to add your voice!

Recent Finds

Cricket Hill sign

Cricket Hill

These San Francisco Victorian style rowhouses were built by J. Harold Colclough Associates, a real estate developer, in 1982 and designed by Arrowhead Drafting Services, a local architect. From the early marketing, they were designed to appear “antique” and pitched as heirloom properties, even though they were brand new. Around the same time (in...

corner street view of Burthy Funeral Service

1510 Fayetteville Street

The current property at 1510 Fayetteville is the Burthey Funeral Home, in business since 1946. Before the funeral home, there was a residential property located at 1510 Fayetteville. The original building, likely to have been built ca. 1916, is no longer there and was replaced by the funeral home. Susie Kirkland Burthey Smith, mother of Claudie C...

Dr. Joseph N. Mills House

(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / scanned by Digital Durham) 1211 Fayetteville was the Durham home of Dr. Joseph Napoleon Mills, a notable doctor from Kinston, North Carolina. Dr. Mills came to Durham circa 1908 after attending the Leonard Medical School at Shaw University. Dr. Mills was a general practitioner who specialized in...

Recent Tours

brochure cover

A House in the City

Sunday, Oct. 26, 1975 1-6 p.m. [first home tour of the Trinity Park Association]

Queer History of Durham Gride Photos

Queer History of Durham

Queer History of Durham Zine (Color) Queer History of Durham Zine (Black and White) Queer History of Durham Game This tour grew out of a project from the Queer Public History class at North Carolina State University, taught by Dr. Megan Cherry. My cohort, Karina Burbank, and I (Julia Lasure, Membership and Programs Coordinator at Preservation...

Recent Comments

JKIMBRELL commented on 611 Primitive St.

Jay Kimbrell Clarence Kimbrell’s father, William E Kimbrell owned Kimbrell’s Furniture Co. Clarence

Rick.Oberhofer commented on The Medical Arts Building

Hopefully this comment reaches Mr. William Fields II, now 12 years after the last post. I co-lead a

Joan commented on Durham Water Company - Eno River Pumping Station

Yes, Nancy Rhodes Creek and the Eno River were separately dammed. What I heard from Milo Pyne and

lwindley commented on 126 Nelson Street

This would be a dream home for me - I wrote to the owners a couple of years ago asking if they would