Trinity Historic District, also called Trinity Park, is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

and residential area located near the East Campus of

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

in Durham,

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. The district encompasses 751 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Durham. They were built between the 1890s and 1960 and include notable examples of Queen Anne and

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style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed "Faculty Row" cottages: the Bassett House, Cranford-Wannamaker House, Crowell House, and Pegram House. Other notable buildings include the George W. Watts School (1917), Julian S. Carr Junior High School (1922), Durham High School (1923), Durham Alliance Church (1927), Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church (1925), Watts Street Baptist Church (1925), Great A & P Tea Company (1927-1929), Grace Lutheran Church (c. 1950), and the former Greek Orthodox Community Church (c. 1950). It was listed on the

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in 1986, with a boundary increase in 2004 and 2008.

Notable buildings

* Bassett House * Cranford-Wannamaker House * Crowell House * Pegram House * Powe House * Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church * Watts Street Baptist Church

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of Trinity Park include: *

John Spencer Bassett John Spencer Bassett (September 10, 1867 – January 27, 1928) was an American historian. He was a professor at Trinity College (today Duke University), and is best known today for the "Bassett Affair" in 1903 when he publicly criticized racism a ...

, Duke University professor *

Joseph Penn Breedlove Joseph Penn Breedlove (1874–1955) was an American librarian and author. In 48 years of service, he oversaw the growth of the Duke University Library (originally Trinity College) from a single room in 1898 to millions of books and documents in ...

, first librarian of

* John Franklin Crowell, Trinity College president * William Preston Few, first president of Duke University * George B. Pegram,

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physicist * Justin Tornow, dancer and choreographer

Gallery

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house (1915), 407 Watts St. File:BASSETT-BROWN HOUSE.jpg, Bassett-Brown house File:CRANFORD HOUSE.jpg, Cranford house File:Trinity Park 3.jpg File:Trinity Park 4.jpg File:Watts Street, Durham, NC.jpg

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Historic districts in Durham, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina Historic mansion districts Neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina Second Empire architecture in North Carolina Upper class culture in North Carolina {{DurhamCountyNC-NRHP-stub