Director's Corner
March 21 2014 WrapUp
The Jack Tar Motel, Police Headquarters site selection, the Rosenwald Schools Conference and more. (more…)
Events
Home Tour 2013: Downtown
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…
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Home Tour 2012: Forest Hills
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…
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Home Tour 2000: Tobacco Heritage
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…
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Home Tour 2001: Downtown
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…
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Home Tour 2002: Hope Valley
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…
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Home Tour 2003: Historic Bahama
Long before Dr. Bartlett Durham sold land to the railroad for a station, many families had settled in the northern part of what was then Orange County. The Umsteads, the Tilleys, the Mangums, the Parrishes, the Balls, the Harrises, the Crabtrees, the Dukes, the Bennehans, and the Camerons all Read more…
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Home Tour 2008: Watts-Hillandale
The 12th Annual Old Durham Home Tour was another success for Preservation Durham as hundreds of PD members and friends came out to enjoy a lovely day in the Watts Hospital Hillandale neighborhood. Read more about Watts Hospital-Hillandale on our Historic Neighborhoods pages! Advance ticket buyers were able to exchange their Read more…