Saturday and Sunday
April 26 – 27, 2014
12:00 – 4:00 pm
Durham’s history is closely lined to the rise and fall of the NC tobacco industry, and the massive buildings that housed this manufacture are a huge part of Durham’s unique character.
Follow the social tour – friend, snap, tweet – #tobaccoheritagetour
Documentary photos of the history of tobacco in Durham. (more…)
Saturday and Sunday
April 26 – 27, 2014
12:00 – 4:00 pm
Durham’s history is closely lined to the rise and fall of the NC tobacco industry, and the massive buildings that housed this manufacture are a huge part of Durham’s unique character.
2013 Old Durham Home Tour – Downtown Durham Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28, 2013 Noon – 4pm both days Tickets available at Beyu Caffe (335 W. Main Street) beginning at 11am $35 days-of event For tour sites and details click here Advance ticket sales are now closed. Please come Read more…
Annual Home Tour took place on April 28, 2012. Read more about Forest Hills on our Historic Neighborhoods pages! Until the early 1920s, most of the land that comprised Forest Hills belonged to a few farmers who left much of the gently rolling hills as forests and meadows. Farm Read more…
Over 500 people toured sites from Durham’s Tobacco Heritage during the fourth annual tour, held on Saturday, May 6, 2000. Use our virtual tour (or join us on a traditional walking tour) of Durham’s tobacco heritage! The 2000 Historic Tour included industrial spaces rather than the usual homes. Sites on the tour Read more…
Nearly 1000 people joined Preservation Durham on Saturday, May 5, Living It Up Downtown on the 5th annual Old Durham Tour. Eclectic residences created in buildings that were once department stores, offices, and warehouses demonstrated how a good building can be useful even after it has outlived its original purpose. Read more…
Hope Valley was Durham’s first full-fledged country club suburb, developed around an 18-hole golf course in the late 1920s Traces of the farms that occupied the land in the 19th Century remain around the suburban landscape developed by the Mebane Company to attract the newly successful young professionals that Read more…