Hundreds of Preservation Durham members and friends of historic preservation in Durham attended the 11th Annual Old Durham Tour of the Trinity Neighborhoods west of Downtown. Read more about the Trinity area on our Historic Neighborhoods pages! Advance ticket buyers were able to exchange their tickets for a tour guidebook and map Read more…
15th Annual Tour Explored Duke Park on May 7, 2011 Read more about Duke Park on our Historic Neighborhoods pages! The 2011 Old Durham Home Tour in the Duke Park neighborhood was another popular success! Hundreds of historic architecture fans wandered the neighborhood, visiting the many and varied homes, welcomed Read more…
Preservation Durham members and friends gathered on Saturday, May 2, 2009, for the 13th Annual Old Durham Tour of Morehead Hill. Read more about Morehead Hill on our Historic Neighborhoods pages! Homes on the tour covered a wide range of styles that are uniquely juxtaposed in Morehead Hill. From an 1890s Queen Read more…
Preservation Durham members and friends gathered on Saturday, May 1, 2010, for the 14th Annual Old Durham Tour in Hope Valley. Read more about Hope Valley on our Historic Neighborhoods pages! We first explored this beautiful historic neighborhood in 2002, and it proved to be one of our most popular Read more…
Durham’s best examples of Mid-Century Modern commercial design include the 1963 Jack Tar Motel, the 1968 Mutual Community Savings Bank, the 1960 Holiday Inn, and the 1966 North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Once seen as ‘futuristic’, many people now see these buildings as dated. However, they remain valuable pieces Read more…
Designed by Milburn & Heister as a Freemasons Lodge in 1924, the building was acquired by Durham County during the Great Depression. It has been vacant since 1992, and deterioration of the roof has resulted in significant water damage, especially to the top floor. The Eligibility Building and the vacant Read more…
Dating from the 1880s to the 1910s, this neighborhood has some of the best examples of Victorian architecture in Durham. Unfortunately, like much of downtown, the area fell into decline in the 1960s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and became Durham’s first Read more…