East Cornwallis Road

Beechwood Cemetery

04.05.2010, Grave of Matthew Christmas, likely relocated to Beechwood, with the later-relocated White Rock Baptist Church in the background (Photo credit: Nephets - online at commons.wikimedia.org). For more than 50 years after Durham was founded, the city provided no public cemetery for its African American residents. Maplewood Cemetery - created...

Burroughs Wellcome Building - Elion-Hitchings Building

1970s 1974 In February 1969, the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome bought just over 66 acres of land from the Research Triangle Foundation to relocate its headquarters from Tuckahoe, New York. Planning a flagship office reflecting their place on the industry's cutting edge, they commissioned renowned modernist architect Paul Rudolph for the...