Trinity Historic District

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.