Institutional

Harris Grove Church, July 1977 (photo by Robert Blake)

Harris Grove AME Church

The property was purchased by trustees of the church in 1882 (see OC Deed Book 52, Page 334), and the church was built sometime between then and 1890. It is located in Little River Township, somewhat near the Durham County line. Harris Grove Church, 1970 (photo by Robert Blake) Harris Grove Church, July 1977 (photo by Robert Blake) Harris Grove...

Deteriorated brick and block building

4811 MT. SINAI RD - FOREST VIEW REHABILITATION CENTER

2011 (S. Kueber) From the Indy Week (December 31, 2008): "Forest View Rehabilitation Center, a 138-bed, for-profit nursing home on Mt Sinai Road near the Durham/ Orange county line, quietly closed last month. The 100 or so residents, which included the elderly, sick and those with mental and physical disabilities ranging from multiple sclerosis to...

Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World - 276 Pride of Orange

101 S. Merritt Mill Rd. / Elks Lodge

Circa 2005, view east (photo by M. Ruth Little, courtesy the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill) The property was first purchased by Elks Lodge members in June 1924. There may have been an earlier, wood building than the current structure, which was built in 1954. This was the meeting hall for the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks...

Delta Kappa Epsilon Frat Hall

View north, circa 1925 (via UNC) View north east (via UNC Postcard collection) Circa 1960 (via HSANC) Delta Kappa Epsilon (D.K.E.), Beta Chapter was the first fraternity founded at the University of North Carolina on April 5, 1851. The early chapter meetings were held in the house of John W. Carr. Due to the Civil War, the chapter was dissolved in...

201 N. Churton St. / Confederate Memorial Library / Orange County Historical Museum

View north west, 1930s (photo by the Albertype Company, via UNC) The NW corner of Churton and Tryon streets was the location of the 1836 " Session House" for the adjacent Presbyterian Church. In 1934, the Session House building was torn down and a new building was built on the site. It was built as a United States Federal Civil Works Administration...

Masonic Lodge / Eagle Lodge No. 19 (71) Af And Am

The oldest extant Masonic Lodge in the state of North Carolina, this simple Greek Revival structure was built on the site of Edmund Fanning's house in 1823.

Orange Correctional Center

07.06.2019 (S. Kueber) The property that became the Orange County Subsidiary Prison No. 56 was purchased by the State of North Carolina in February 1932 from the Davis family; it was previously known as the "William Strudwick homeplace." The original intention of the facility was to house medium-security inmates who worked on crews to build and...

Caldwell Institute / Caldwell Academy

The Caldwell Institute was incorporated in 1899, but was at this location since at least 1872; prior to that it was located in Hillsborough (circa 1845), and prior to that was in Greensboro. The "Caldwell Institute" post office operated from 1877 to 1904.[1] This structure was also later used as Dr. Jordan's office. Its trustees at the time of...

Upendo Lounge (chase Hall Location)

Not a building, per se, but a space for Black UNC students to meet in and hold events, beginning in 1973.

Orange County Poor House / County Home / County Home For The Aged And Infirm

Operated from circa 1823 to 1941. Due to its poor condition, a new County Home was almost built east of Hillsboro in 1925. The County sold the ~183 acre property in May 1943 to S.C. Forrest, Sr. The 1955 USDA aerial photo shows the buildings, including the barracks; the 1975 USDA aerial photo shows several of the buildings as partial ruins. The...