Hyde Park Pentecostal Holiness Church Parsonage

(The information below in italics is from the Preservation Durham Plaque Society for the Hyde Park Pentecostal Holiness Church Parsonage)

The Hyde Park Pentecostal Holiness Church was started as a small prayer group in 1909.  The group later took over an upstairs room of a grocery store on Angier Avenue and  become the Edgemont Pentecostal Holiness Church. In 1912 during an annual conference  there was a fire, causing extensive damage to the meeting room on Angier. The church  rallied to purchase a lot on Lyon St. and in 1914 they erected the Lyon Street Pentecostal  Holiness Church. This church operated until 1937 when a lot was purchased at the corner  of Hyde Park Ave. and Taylor St. for $1,000. The Lyon Street building was torn down and  some materials were reused in the construction of the new church. The church was  completed in the fall of 1938 and named the Hyde Park Pentecostal Holiness Church.  

The Pentecostal Holiness Church comes out of the Holiness Church of NC and the Fire Baptized Holiness Church. The Pentecostal Holiness Church spread widely in the  Southeast U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  

The lot at the corner of Taylor St. and Maple St. was purchased in 1946 from the City of  Durham, and a parsonage was constructed. The Education Building/Daycare was  constructed ca. 1970 and is on the same property as 315 N. Maple.  

The church changed its name to the Living Waters Christian Community in the late 1970s  and relocated to Lynn Rd. in 1983. When it moved, it had 60 congregants from the Hyde  Park Church. More information about the church can be found on their website (https:// lwccnc.com/)