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Fire Station #4 - Fayetteville St.

A new Fire Station #4 was built in 1958, and the station on McMannen St. was closed. This station was built contemporaneously with Fire Station #5 on Chapel Hill Road, and originally the two stations were nearly identical. Fire Station #4 under construction, 06.21.57 (Courtesy Herald-Sun)

Angier-Satterfield-Kreps House / Center for Documentary Studies

CORRECTION: John Angier's proper name was Johnathan C. Angier and he married Lida Duke, daughter of John Taylor Duke, Washington Duke's brother. All references to Lyla Duke Angier should read Lida Duke Angier. Thank you, Jonathan C. Angier IV, great-grandson of Johnathan C. Angier Sr. The first "h" in Johnathan, was dropped in my name.

Southern Fire Insurance Co.

---- Aerial showing the mill village houses north of Perry St., between Broad and 8th (Iredell), 1940s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Mill houses associated with the Erwin Cotton Mills were constructed in a centrifugal pattern around the mill from the 1890s-1910s. I've profiled those extending west from the mill on 13th, 14th, and 15th...

Dr. James Shepard House - 1902 Fayetteville St.

Dr. James Shepard, founder of what is now North Carolina Central University, moved to the house at 1902 Fayetteville St. in 1925. The house is Prairie Style architecture - common in the midwest, but not a common architectural form in Durham. Shepard lived in the house, and served as president of the university, until his death in 1947.

Teachers Home - North Carolina College

Part of the original campus for the National Religious Training School, the adminstration building was destroyed by fire in January 1925.

Old Chemistry Building / "old Chem"

~1930 - (Courtesy Duke Yearlook) 1930s - (Courtesy Duke Yearlook)

Pearson Cafeteria

The most architecturally interesting of the buildings constructed during NCCU's late 2000s campus expansion.

Ruth G. Rush Women's Dormitory

Completed in 1939, the Georgian Revival style building was part of the school's Public Works Administration-sponsored campus building campaign. A slightly modified version of Annie Day Shepard Hall, it lacks a gable above the entrance pavillion and the balustrade on the frame Tuscan portico. Unlike Shepard Hall, however, the fanlight at the main entrance is leaded.

Music And Fine Arts Building - North Carolina College / NCCU

1950 Music and Fine Arts Building, 05.24.11

Infirmary - North Carolina College

Part of the post-WWII campus expansion.