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McDougald Terrace

McDougald Terrace was developed on vacant land east of Hayti and NCCU as part of large-scale public housing development in Durham, funded and authorized by the Housing Act of 1949. Two major, racially-segregated projects were developed in the early 1950s - Few Gardens, for white residents, McDougald Terrace, for African-American residents. Looking...

W.G. Pearson Elementary / Middle School

WG Pearson School, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Designed by George Watts Carr, Sr. the WG Pearson Elementary School was built in 1928. It is one of the most impressive of the 1920s-1930s era school buildings, both in terms of the building architecture and the relation of the building to the site and the surrounding neighborhood, as...

Durham Electric Lighting Co.

Looking southwest near the intersection of E. Peabody and S. Roxboro (actually closer to Pine St., which did not originally line up with Roxboro, but terminated at the tracks just a bit further east,) 1890. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

119 East Main Street

Looking northeast from the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The first brick structures on the north side of the 100 block of East Main St. were built during late 1880s-early 1890s, including the midblock structures of 113-119 E. Main. 119 East Main notably included the Rawls Store, which later became the...

400-402 East Peabody

Some of the buildings I've most enjoyed seeing re-done in other cities are train-related - stations/depots of course, but also the kind of wholesale companies that lined the railroad tracks in many cities. A line of these type of structures were spread along the railroad tracks along the 300 block of East Peabody St. Looking east from the First...

Lucky Strike Smokestack

Bassett Dormitory

A dormitory named for Professor John Spencer Bassett, most well-known for the 'Bassett Affair"

Liggett And Myers New Cigarette Factory

--- The site just to the west of the first Duke Factory was Washington Duke's first in-town home. (Durham Historic Inventory) In 1884, Duke built a new brick factory, just to the east of his house and original factory. In 1888, he built a new house, which he called Fairview. Looking west, with the old factory building to the right. The steeple of...

707-709 Fayetteville

707-709 Fayetteville, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Scanned by Digital Durham)

Fayette Place

Fayette Place was a large public housing project developed by the Durham Housing Authority in 1967; it supplanted a large portion of residential Hayti and served as 'replacement housing' for many who were forced out of historic housing by urban renewal. With Durham Freeway Construction in the background - 1967 (Durham County LIbrary) 1959 Aerial...