Annual Neighborhood Walk | West End, East Campus & Beyond

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 Read more…

Places in Peril 2011

[toggle title=”500-600 Block of Holloway Street”] 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 Read more…