Neoclassical

St. Mark's Ame Zion (1954-)

Looking north from the present-day location of Rolling Hills, ~1910. The St. Mark Church is visible in the foreground. Other prominent structures visible in the distance include (left to right) the Trust Building, the Hotel Carrolina, First Baptist Church, Fire Station #1, Union Station, the original Durham County Courthouse, Trinity Methodist, the...

1200 Hanover St. - McLean-Flintall House

Early house in the Geerwood Park subdivision of East End, built by carpenter John B. McLean for himself; longtime residence of William Flintall

Bassett-Brown House

1924 - Durham, City of Industry Book. John Spencer Bassett, whose tenure at Trinity College and importance in the growth of academic freedom via the 'Bassett Affair' I've previously profiled lived in one of the Faculty Row houses until 1905, when he started construction on the house at 410 N. Buchanan Blvd. Per the Duke Archives, Bassett left for...

Whitted Elementary School / Hillside High School

(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

118 W. Seeman St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

Maynard Mangum House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) Tobacco warehouseman Maynard Mangum had this imposing two story clapboarded house constructed in 1914 by local contractor Lonnie Glosson. A similarity in the overall form, proportions and low hipped roof with deep bracketed eaves between this house and the Umstead-Rollins House next...

100-102-104-106 Morris Street

Though much modified, this building is one of the oldest remaining in downtown - minus its original, quirky Second Empire roof.

Edgemont Baptist Church

Designed by noted ecclesiastical architect James M. McMichael, Edgemont Baptist was completed in 1915, and was the dominant church in the Edgemont community. It remained home to that congregation until 1989.

U.S. Post Office (1934)

View of the U.S. Post Office, Atwood and Weeks, ~1934 (Courtesy Milo Pyne) The block of East Chapel Hill St. between Holland St. and Rigsbee Ave. was the site of the William Mangum homestead and farm, which stretched west to present-day Morris St, and the AM Rigsbee house - Rigsbee's farm extended east across present-day Rigsbsee Avenue. These...

Foushee House

Foushee House, June 6, 1956, looking southwest. The Foushee House, also known as "The Terraces", was built for Judge Howard Foushee between 1911 and 1915. The house was designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Linton Leary, who moved to Durham in 1890 to design the Washington Duke building at Trinity College (which later burned) and St. Jospeh's...