Southern Durham

Descendants relate that nine generations of the Evans family have occupied the weathered log house built by John Evans, Jr., ca. 1850. Evans son, Reuben, reported to have been born in the house, was about twelve years old when Union soldiers raided the family farm near the end of the Civil War. Among other items, peanuts belonging to the boy were...

Easily identified by single-sash upper-story windows, the one-and one-half-story, side-gabled Kepley House is a good example of a late-nineteenth-early-twentieth-century vernacular house type less common to Durham County than the Triple-A I-house or Triple-A cottage. This dwelling has one of two exterior end chimneys still standing and a full...

Designed, built and lived in by Robinson and his family.

2007 2550 Chapel Hill Boulevard was home to the Yorktowne Theater. One of the best movie experiences of my life was going to see "White Men Can't Jump" here. Seriously. 11.22.08 (Courtesy Andy Edmonds) 11.22.08 (Courtesy Andy Edmonds)

Stallion Club, 1968 The Stallion Club was a music / dance club which attracted a primarily African-American clientele, although it appears to have had somewhat of a cult following among predominantly white Duke students. Duke medical students and faculty at a party at the Stallion Club, 1971 (Courtesy Duke Medical Center) I'm not sure when the...