Iredell Street

(The information below in italics is from the Preservation Durham Plaque Application for the Dr. Joseph Ira & Martha W Coleman House) Craftsman style house with hip roof with wide eaves , two interior chimneys, and a hip dormer. House has paired German siding, asbestos siding , 9-over-I sash windows , and a French front door with sidelights . The...

This home has received a historical plaque designation from Preservation Durham. Information about the house has been taken from the plaque application and from the Preservation Durham home tour write-up. From the time of its building in 1922, the house at 1111 Iredell Street has had four principal owner-resident families or individuals.The house...

Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian, 1924 The Blacknall family, both Richard, Jr., who, with his father, Dr. Richard Blacknall, had organized Blacknall's Drugstore and his brother James, who was the first sheriff of Durham County, started the Presbyterian congregation in West Durham in 1892 as a mission, based from First Presbyterian downtown. The...

St. Joseph's, 1920s. (From "From Paternalism to Protest" by Tiffany Franke.) St. Joseph's Episcopal Church was established as the outgrowth of an Episcopal mission in West Durham established in 1894 -which would become the second Episcopal parish in Durham, the first being associated with St. Philip's downtown. William Erwin taught Sunday School...