People & Places

Preservation Durham

Incorporated on April 23, 1974 as the Historic Preservation Society of Durham, Inc., Preservation Durham has served as Durham's historic preservation nonprofit organization with a mission to protect Durham’s culturally diverse history, heritage, and historic assets through education, advocacy and action.

First Presbyterian Church (1916)

The First Presbyterian Church began when Dr. Richard Blacknall moved from 'Red Mountain' (Rougemont) to Durham in 1860 and persuaded Revs. James and Charles Phillips to come from Chapel Hill to hold sermons in the Trinity Methodist or First Baptist churches. His wife organized Sunday school classes in the First Baptist Church as well. The...

Smith - DeBerry House

Mid Century Ranch built by Ernest Wilkerson Construction Company for Albert and Harriett Smith, 1956. One level brick ranch with Colonial Revival details, louvered non functional shutters, recessed entry with leaded sidelights, dormers, and a central gable with semi-circular window. House has two semi-circular driveways and a walled courtyard on south end.

Lowes Grove School

Innovative school provided a center for once-rural community. Now almost entirely demolished.

Flowers-Spears House

Flowers-Spears House, 1980 Per the historic inventory, WW Flowers, president of the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company commissioned well-known Charlotte architecture firm CC Hook to design the house at 501 Watts St. for his father, George Washington Flowers in the early 1910s. Rear of the Flowers-Spears House, 06.19.57 The contractor was John T...

Salmon House

1002 Lamond Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination) This 1900s two-story frame house reportedly was built for physician Edward A. Speed and his sisters. Dr. Speed married and moved out of the house, but after his death in 1911 his widow occupied the house for several decades. Asyrrmetrical massing typical of the Neo-colonial style. Converted to...

926 W. Trinity Ave.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Intact two-story frame Foursquare. Double-hung sash windows composed of three slender panes over single pane. Full-facade attached porch supported by box pylons on brick plinths. Handsome multi- paned entrance flanked by...

Haywood, Margaret

1802 Taylor St

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1-story tri-gable house with a full hipped-roof Craftsman porch. Alterations include asbestos siding and 2-over-2 horizontal sash windows. 1925-1935 CDs: Sarah Mayhard (sic) occupant. 1937 SM.