{"nrhp_refnum":"85001779","name":"Scarborough House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1406 Fayetteville St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.97817998600004,"lon":-78.90015396999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Black","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Neoclassical Revival house at 1406 Fayetteville Street in Durham, North Carolina, built in 1916 by funeral home owner J.C. Scarborough and his wife Daisy.","why_significant":"The house reflects the rise of Durham's black urban middle class in the early twentieth century and the accomplishments of J.C. Scarborough, who founded Durham's first black funeral service, and of Clydie F. Scarborough, a nursery school and day care leader. Its neoclassical exterior contrasts with an interior of Victorian mantelpieces, light fixtures and stained glass salvaged from the Queen Anne style Frank Fuller House, forming what the form calls the city's finest such collection.","narrative":"Built in 1916 on Fayetteville Street in Durham, this sizable Neoclassical Revival house has a foursquare form and a compound front porch with Doric columns beneath a two-story portico. It was built by J.C. Scarborough, who arrived in Durham in 1906 and opened the city's first funeral service for black residents, and his wife Daisy. Scarborough salvaged much of the building material from the demolished Queen Anne style Frank Fuller House, so the formal exterior and center hall plan enclose ornate Victorian mantelpieces, brass chandeliers and colorful stained glass. The street was the main thoroughfare of Durham's black neighborhoods, and the house is described as its most imposing and one of the least altered. Scarborough served as a bank director, hospital board secretary and church trustee. After Daisy's death, he founded a nursery school in her memory, later led by his second wife, Clydie, who worked to improve day care and early education across the state. The house reflects the growth of Durham's black middle class.","period_of_significance":"1916","architect_builder":"unknown (built by J.C. Scarborough)","architectural_style":"Neoclassical Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in excellent condition, slightly altered, with a modern rear addition; a nursery school operates on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.114076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/7177/47717717/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001779.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001779/d5c3a5af1d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001779/d5c3a5af1d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarborough_House_front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarborough_House_front.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717717","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/scarborough-house-85001779/"}