North Durham-Duke Park District

North Durham-Duke Park is a residential district in Durham, North Carolina, that combines one of the city's earliest suburbs, a small commercial node at Little Five Points, and part of the 1930s Duke Park neighborhood. Development began in the 1880s, when farmland north of downtown was converted to house lots, and continued through the 1930s. The result is an unusually varied streetscape. Queen Anne houses from the 1880s sit near Victorian homes with sawn millwork, Neo-Colonial houses, bungalows, Tudor and Spanish Revival cottages, and large Colonial Revival residences. Modest working-class houses on Glendale Avenue contrast with the larger homes on North Mangum Street. The Durham firm Rose and Rose designed several notable buildings, and the Gamble House is a rare local example of the International Style. Brick commercial buildings, apartments and churches add to the mix. Highway construction, urban renewal, new apartments and neglect have affected the southern end, but the district remains largely residential, with many owner-occupied homes.