{"nrhp_refnum":"04001393","name":"East Durham Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Southern Rwy right-of-way, N. Guthrie Ave. Holloway St., Hyde Park Ave, S. Plum St. and Vale St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.99048996050004,"lon":-78.8788964087773,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A largely residential historic district about one and a quarter miles east of downtown Durham, North Carolina, bounded by the Southern Railway tracks and Holloway Street. It has 563 contributing principal buildings dating from about 1890 to about 1955.","why_significant":"The district is a densely built, intact neighborhood of modest and middle-class housing, tied to Durham's mill and tobacco economy. It displays a clear progression of house types and styles from late Victorian forms through bungalows to Minimal Traditional houses. The form notes that 76 percent of its resources contribute to its historical and architectural significance.","narrative":"East Durham Historic District lies about one and a quarter miles east of downtown Durham, between the Southern Railway tracks and Holloway Street. Roughly five blocks wide and ten blocks long, it is mostly residential, with a two-block commercial area at Angier Avenue and Driver Street and three schools. It holds 563 contributing principal buildings built between about 1890 and about 1955, plus 168 contributing outbuildings and the Barbee Graveyard. The oldest houses are late Victorian I-Houses, Queen Anne dwellings and Gothic Revival cottages from the 1890s. Tri-gable, gable-and-wing and pyramidal cottages dominate the years from 1900 to 1920. Bungalows became the favored type in the 1920s and 1930s, while Tudor and Colonial Revival houses are scarce. Small Minimal Traditional houses and duplexes filled the last vacant lots in the 1940s and 1950s. Narrow lots, granite curbstones, stone and brick retaining walls and tree-lined Driver Street give the neighborhood a unified character. Its first residents included mill workers, tradesmen, grocers and other merchants.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Gothic, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, International Style, tri-gable, gable-and-wing, pyramidal cottage, Minimal Traditional, Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential with a two-block commercial area at Angier Avenue and Driver Street, three schools, and a cemetery; about 39 scattered vacant lots are noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.063868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/7177/47717777/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04001393.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Durham_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461476"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/east-durham-historic-district-04001393/"}