{"nrhp_refnum":"86000672","name":"Trinity Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Faculty Cottages","Bassett House","Cranford--Wannamaker"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Green, Duke, Morgan and W. Main Sts. and Markham Ave., and Clarendon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.00499131400005,"lon":-78.91306595990868,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A largely residential historic district in Durham, North Carolina, made up of the Trinity Heights and Trinity Park neighborhoods, with buildings dating from the late 1890s to around 1940. It also holds schools, churches, apartment buildings and the Durham High School campus.","why_significant":"The district is described as a lexicon of Durham's residential and institutional architecture from the late 1890s to about 1940. Almost ninety percent of its buildings are classed as pivotal or contributing. It contains a wide range of styles, including Queen Anne, Neo-Colonial, bungalows, Foursquares, Period Houses and period revival designs, along with works by identified local and regional architects.","narrative":"Closely spaced houses with landscaped yards, set along tree-shaded street grids, define this Durham district made up of the Trinity Heights and Trinity Park neighborhoods. Most of the buildings date from the late 1890s to around 1940, and almost ninety percent are classed as pivotal or contributing. Houses range from modest one-story cottages to stylish two-and-one-half-story residences. Queen Anne, Neo-Colonial and Colonial Revival houses, bungalows, Foursquares and Period Houses predominate, and the great majority were drawn from builders' guides and popular magazines. The four Faculty Row cottages, built on the Trinity College campus in 1891-92 and later moved here, are among Durham's best Queen Anne examples. Institutional buildings include the 1917 George W. Watts School, the 1922 Julian S. Carr Junior High School, the 1923 Durham High School and several 1920s churches, some by named architects. Together, these buildings document the range of Durham's residential and institutional architecture over roughly four decades.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Rand and Taylor (Boston); C. Miller Euler; George Watts Carr; Milburn and Heister Company; G. Murray Nelson; R.R. Markley; Rose and Rose, Architects; Harry Barton","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Neo-Colonial, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, bungalow, Foursquare, Period House, Tudor, Spanish and Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and good, and mostly unaltered. About one and a half blocks in Trinity Heights are vacant and overgrown with trees and underbrush.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.130338-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7177/47717759/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000672.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000672/9b272e47b2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000672/9b272e47b2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"dreid1987","credit_html":"dreid1987, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King%27s_Daughters_Inn_-_panoramio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717759","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20714036"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/trinity-historic-district-86000672/"}