Church

Organized in 1773 as Eno Meeting House, this was one of the earliest congregations established in what became Durham County. As documented by Jean Bradley Anderson, the will of Richard Rhodes and property records from Orange County as far back as the 1790s indicate land at this same location was set aside for this purpose. The name of the...

Former Lakewood Baptist Building

Yates Avenue ran between West Chapel Hill St. and West Pettigrew St. - one of the core north-south streets of the West End - a neighborhood whose early residential core seems to have been concentrated along the Burch Avenue east-west axis between Yates and Milton (later renamed Buchanan.) The most prominent structure in the 500 block of Yates Ave...

Queen St. has a bit of an on-again-off-again thing with the block between Holloway and Liberty St. The initial mid-to-late-1800s layout of Durham's streets had Queen terminate at Liberty St. on the north end. Bird's Eye view, 1891. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company)

The home church of the Duke family, this congregation began at Gregson and West Main before moving to this impressive Duke-funded edifice in 1912.

---- 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...

Asbury United Methodist, 03.10.68 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)