- City:
- Durham, NC
- Site Type:
- Community Centers, Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Armories
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- Raymond Weeks
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A former armory quartering the Durham National Guard, what is now the central civic center in downtown Durham, North Carolina was constructed between 1935 and 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) It was converted to a civic center circa 1954.
Source notes
Plaque on building
Roberts, Lea & Leary, "The Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory". . City of Durham, 1982, p. 44-45
Site originally submitted by David Connor on August 30, 2017.
Additional contributions by John Stehlin.
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