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5002 Wake Forest Highway

Robinson, Russell

1004 Watts Street - Beth El Synagogue

In the publication titled, Percival Goodman: Architect - Planner - Teacher - Painter, it lists the Beth-el Durham, NC Congregation in his lists of works in the year 1955 (page 188.) Here. Wikipedia says, Percival Goodman (January 13, 1904 – October 11, 1989) was an American urban theorist and architect who designed more than 50 synagogues between...

Beth El Synagogue

Durham's oldest Jewish congregation had its origins in the purchase of a burial ground - a portion of the city of Durham's newly established cemetery, Maplewood. In 1884, four of Durham's earliest Jewish settlers got together and bought 500 square feet of land from Durham's Maplewood Cemetery. The four men -- Jacob Levy, Samuel Lehman, Myer...

948 Washington Street

400 Macon Street

12.07.11 Faintly visible on the front of the building is "Geo. W. Kane ; Storage...." George W. Kane was a prolific Durham builder, and Sanborn maps confirm that this building was extant and used as building material storage by 1937.

116 West Seeman St.

1981 116 West Seeman St.

222 W. Trinity Ave.

1981 From the 1985 North-Durham Duke Park National Register listing: Pleasant, recently renovated one story clapboard cottage with jerkin headed gable roof. Enclosed front porch and unusual arched front door under eyebrow arched front stoop. Exterior flush chimney in front of house. 1999 2009

902 North Buchanan Blvd.

901 Virgie Street