People & Places

WG Pearson School, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Designed by George Watts Carr, Sr. the WG Pearson Elementary School was built in 1928. It is one of the most impressive of the 1920s-1930s era school buildings, both in terms of the building architecture and the relation of the building to the site and the surrounding neighborhood, as...

Andrews Grill, as it was originally called, opened around 1950. The Andrews family ran the Andrews Market, a grocery store, at 2104 and, later 2102 Angier Avenue. In the late 1940s, one of the sons built a small restaurant building mid-block at 2108 Angier and opened the Andrews Grill. For reasons unknown, the restaurant became Smith's Grill during...

1024 Angier Avenue was once home to a mill house built by Durham Hosiery. The floor layout shows it was Durham Hosiery's "F" type house, with an "indoor" bathroom. Based on the source, it is likely this house was built before 1913, and demolished after 1979. “Inventory of Edgemont and East Durham Early Textile Mill Villages.” North Carolina Digital...

According to county records, this house was constructed in 1925, which would make it one of the first wave constructed in the Sherron Acres subdivision as parcels began selling at auction that year.

According to county property records, this home was constructed in 1945.

A multipurpose Durham Parks and Recreation facility hosting a full slate of community programs and events, the present structure was built from 2009-2011 on the site of an older community center that dated back to 1949. More information about facilities and programming is available on the DPR website.