509 Holloway / Green Oaks Tourist Home / United House Of Prayer Church

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509
Durham
NC
Cross Street
Year built
1890-1913
Year demolished
1980-1995
Neighborhood
Building Type
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509 Holloway St., built prior to 1913, changed from a single family home to the "Green Oaks Tourist Home" during the middle part of the 20th century, as seen in the above shot from 1964. Holloway St., as Highway 70, was the main road into town from the east as car travel grew. A 'tourist home' was somewhat similar to a bed and breakfast - i.e. an old house converted into a hotel.

Things had changed by the 1970s, when much of the neighborhood had been torn down, and east-west traffic would have come into town on the Durham Freeway.


509 Holloway, mid 1970s.

Per the next-door neighbors, the house had burned by the early 90s, and it was torn down to become a parking lot for the United House of Prayer church next door, which it remains today.


509 Holloway, 2007.

Comments

Interesting post. As seems to be the case with churches destroying historic homes for parking spaces, the UHOPFAP doesn't have enough people in attendance at any given service to even fill a fourth of that parking lot (I know because I attended there for awhile).

Oh well...

I THINK THE POINT MADE BEFORE MINE IS SO SO TRUE, I USED TO BE A MEMBER TOO, AND IT IS SAD AND UNFORTUNATE.

Yall cant say that now parking is over filled now god is good

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