PEOPLE + PLACE

Hayti Reborn: The Reveal
Facebook Live & Zoom Virtual Event

Thursday, June 17, 2021

3:30pm

Preservation Durham’s People + Place Speaker Series connects the people of Durham with the importance of our historic, architectural and cultural places and the stories they bring to life. 

A presentation and interview with Henry McKoy PhD, economic development and entrepreneurship expert, about an innovative placemaking projects that brings the ideals of the Black entrepreneurship community Hayti, back to life.

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About the Speaker

Henry McKoy is a faculty member and director of entrepreneurship at NC Central University within the School of Business. He also serves as the managing director of the Eagle Angel Network, a part

PEOPLE + PLACE

Historic Preservation, Social Inclusion, & Social Equity
Facebook Live & Zoom Virtual Event

Thursday, May 27, 2021

12:00 Noon

Preservation Durham’s People + Place Speaker Series connects the people of Durham with the importance of our historic, architectural and cultural places and the stories they bring to life. 

Dr. Erica Avrami will lead us into a discussion about how historic preservation can be used as a tool for inclusion and equity.

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About the Speaker

ERICA AVRAMI is the James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and an affiliate with the Earth Institute – Center for Sustainable Urban Development. Her research

PEOPLE + PLACE

BOOK TALK
Classic Restaurants of Durham with Author Chris Holaday
Facebook Live & Zoom Virtual Event

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

12:00 Noon

Preservation Durham’s People + Place Speaker Series connects the people of Durham with the importance of our historic, architectural and cultural places and the stories they bring to life. 

Discover Durham’s history through food culture. Author Chris Holaday will take us on a journey through a book he co-authored call Classic Restaurants of Durham.

The story of the restaurant industry in Durham is also the story of a once prosperous tobacco town that suffered through a long decline only to undergo a stunning rebirth. Legendary barbecue restaurants such as Little Acorn, Bullock’s and Dillard’s and small cafés like

Annual Neighborhood Walk with, “Street Historian” John Schelp

SAVE THE DATE
Sunday, March 28, 2021 @ 4:00pm
Join the Zoom Virtual Hike on March 28
Click the link below to join live
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82969941787?pwd=eVlSZFlnTjByMlpkUVVGcW9Md1J2UT09
 
Meeting ID: 829 6994 1787
Passcode: history
 
Where was Wall Street? What’s a Pinhooker? How did the Washington Duke Cigar Stand end up in a federal trial? Where did Madonna take early dance lessons? Why is Walltown called Walltown? What highway was going to connect Duke Gardens and Oval Park? Which famous songwriter was born behind Monuts? Where was the West Durham airport? Why wasn’t Cameron Indoor Stadium built on Ninth Street? Where was Kevin Costner spotted in his boxer shorts, near East Campus? What’s buried under Duke Hospital? Why do neighborhoods change so quickly in Durham?
 
To know the history of West Durham is

PEOPLE + PLACE

BOOK TALK
Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street
Facebook Live & Zoom Virtual Event

February 16, 2021

12:00 Noon

Preservation Durham’s People + Place Speaker Series connects the people of Durham with the importance of our historic, architectural and cultural places and the stories they bring to life. 

Join us for a discussion about the life of Aaron McDuffie Moore, founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street. The author, Blake Hill-Saya and C. Eileen Watts Welch, President of Durham Colored Library who commissioned the biography.  Hill-Saya & Welch are descendants of Moore. They will talk about the book and insights on the life and leadership of Aaron McDuffie Moore a man whose community dedication went beyond mere profit

The Catsburg Country Store’s iconic look is a landmark for locals and visitors driving along Old Oxford Road. The red building with a hand-painted black cat on the false front was built in the 1920s.

The historic Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood is centered on tree-shaded West Club Boulevard, anchored by the Durham Water Works on the west, and the former Watts Hospital, now the NC School of Science and Math, on the east.

In 1910, Watts Hospital moved to a 25-acre tract at the intersection of Broad Street and West Club Blvd. George W. Watts, who had donated $50,000 for the establishment of a general hospital in 1895, donated another $500,000 a new hospital designed by Boston architect Bertand E. Taylor in the Spanish Mission style. In 1926, Durham architects Atwood and Nash designed the hospital’s Valinda Beale Watts Pavilion.

Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who wanted to live near their workplace built homes here.