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Preservation Durham
www.preservationdurham.org
Preservation Durham's mission is to protect Durham’s
historic assets through Action, Advocacy, and Education.
A 501(c)3 corporation founded in 1974 as the Historic Preservation
Society of Durham, Preservation Durham has achieved a regional reputation
as one of North Carolina's outstanding historic preservation non-profits.
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May 16: Annual Meeting and Places in Peril 2012
THE ELIGIBILITY BUILDING ON MAIN STREET
WAS NAMED A PLACE IN PERIL IN 2011
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Preservation Durham will announce its annual list of Places in Peril at the 2012 Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 16. The event will take place over lunch at Pop's Restaurant, 605 W. Main Street. Updates on formerly designated properties will also be announced.
Places in Peril is an ongoing effort to raise community awareness about Durham’s architectural and cultural history and galvanize public support for preservation of endangered parts of Durham's built environment.
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To be considered a Place in Peril, a site must be culturally or historically significant, actively endangered, and able to benefit from increased public awareness about the property.
Preservation Durham is seeking the assistance of the media to help raise awareness and of the public to help insure the preservation of these properties. This is an ongoing effort of Preservation Durham to focus on the long-term preservation of Places in Peril and to remind the community that we are an organization to which they can come for information and help in preserving their heritage.
For more information about Places in Peril, contact the Preservation Durham office by phone at (919)-682-3036 or email Preservation Durham.
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Walking Tours Explore Downtown Historic District
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Preservation Durham's FREE Saturday morning walking tours explore different aspects of the Downtown Durham Historic District. Meet our entertaining and well-informed docents on Foster Street at the Durham Farmers' Market at 10:00am the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Saturday from April through November for a glimpse into the history of the Bull City. Our free 90-minute tours describe the tobacco industry in Durham and its importance in the city's history; the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in Durham; and the unique architecture of the city that earned it National Historic District status in 1974.
WALKING TOURS MAY BE CANCELLED AT SHORT NOTICE
DUE TO EXTREME HEAT OR OTHER INCLEMENT WEATHER
CHECK FOR UPDATES ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE
MORE ABOUT PRESERVATION DURHAM WALKING TOURS
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BECOME A TOUR GUIDE FOR OUR 2012 SEASON! Preservation Durham needs volunteers to lead our walking tours of downtown Durham. Opportunities exist to lead Tobacco Heritage, Civil Rights Legacy, and Architecture & Landscape walking tours. Contact Tour Leader Robin Simonton by email or call Preservation Durham at (919)-682-3036.
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Join Preservation Durham and Become a Time Traveler
Make a Tax Deductable Contribution
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Become part of one of the most active and respected preservation organizations in the country! Joining Preservation Durham is fast, easy, and secure with PayPal. Become a Preserver with automatic monthly membership payments or sign up for a full year's membership in a single payment. If you prefer, you can print and send in our Membership application with a check or call the Preservation Durham office at (919)-682-3036 and pay directly with your credit card. Preservation Durham is happy to be able to include membership in the Time Travelers Reciprocal Program, a national program that allows participants to receive benefits at nearly 300 historic sites, museums, and other institutions across the country!
All members receive our newsletter full of preservation news and get discounts on tickets for events including Lunch and Learn, the Preservation Awards Luncheon, and our signature event, the Old Durham Tour. For more information, please call (919)-682-3036. Contributions made to Preservation Durham, a 501(c)3 corporation, are tax deductible as allowed by law.
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JOIN PRESERVATION DURHAM MAIL IN MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
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Buy a New Old House Through Preservation Durham
Buy a home through Preservation Durham's Endangered Properties Program. Preservation Durham uses the Endangered Properties Program to attach protective covenants to older homes throughout Durham to ensure that they are maintained and preserved. Check the listings on the EPF pages of our website. Some homes are fixer-uppers, others are move-in ready! Property owners can earn local and state preservation tax credits for renovating historic buildings in Durham.
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Save Hollow Rock Store
Hollow Rock Store in 1972
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For more than 40 years, the Hollow Rock Store stood on Erwin Road at New Hope Creek. When a new, larger building took its place in the early 1970s, Jan Gregg moved it to her home nearby and used it as her pottery studio and later as a storage shed. Now the store is ready to move again. The store is a classic, old-time country store, once the focal point for its rural community: one room, 16 by 20 feet with an 8-foot, six-inch ceiling and an overhang out front where cars could pull in for gas or local loafers could hang out. Inside, the walls still support the original shelves and the old counter still stands, just to the left as you go inside, where it once held bread, Beanie Weenies and penny candy.
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Neighbors see a future for the store building in the New Hope Preserve, a nature park proposed near the store's original location. It might also become a small museum of the Hollow Rock area, long known for pre-European Indian settlements and a major crossroads point in early-American times, said Wendy Jacobs, chairwoman of a planning committee for the New Hope Preserve - an endeavor shared by Durham, Chapel Hill, Durham and Orange counties as well as individual citizens.
In 2011 the Durham Rotary Club adopted the Hollow Rock Store as a funding project. Read more in their newsletter: here.
You can contribute to the restoration and move of the Hollow Rock Store by sending a donation in care of Preservation Durham, PO Box 25411, Durham NC 27702.
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MORE ABOUT HOLLOW ROCK STORE |
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Save Rougemont Depot
Rougemont Depot in its heyday.
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The Save Rougemont Depot Committee has partnered with Preservation Durham to raise funds to move and restore this historic building. Rougemont was one of many stops along the Lynchburg and Durham Railroad, which later became the Norfolk & Western Railroad. The current depot in this northern Durham County town was built in 1938 after fire destroyed the original building. The replacement building is very similar to the original in style and construction, except for some minor changes in placement of doors and windows.
After years of neglect, the historic depot is in need of extensive restoration to continue to serve the community. |
| The Save Rougemont Depot Committee hopes that the front and office portions can be used as a town hall (if Rougemont becomes incorporated) and the freight station portion will be converted into a town and train museum.
Watch the depot move of November 20, 2010 here: Depot Move. Click the links below to learn more about the project and to contribute to the restoration.
The campaign to Save the Rougemont Depot was the topic at the November 2008 Lunch & Learn.
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SAVE ROUGEMONT DEPOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEPOT RESTORATION |
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