Film Locations - Historical Locations
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Site of the largest and one of the most significant surrenders of the Civil
War
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1700s Yeomen farm home and log kitchen, 35 acres of grounds, split
rail fence along original roadway
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Historic encampments and re-enactments of negotiations between
Generals Sherman and Johnson
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Visitor center with museum of Civil War memorabilia
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Restored 1920s Beaux Arts theater of ochre-colored brick
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1,016-seat Fletcher Hall Auditorium with balcony includes buff-colored
walls with turquoise and gold decorative finishes
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Cinema 1 (276 seats) and Cinema II (76 seats) are decorated with
unique motif stencil designs
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Two elegant ballrooms and two large concessions lobbies decorated in
teal, mahogany and gold
D.C. May Warehouse
215 Morris St
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100,000-square-foot Romanesque Revival Style building features
elaborate brickwork, dozens of segmental arched windows in narrow,
recessed three-story bays
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Used as location for Bull Durham in 1987 (baseball offices and locker
rooms)
Duke
Chapel
Duke University, Chapel Dr.
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Built in 1930, one of the last great collegiate English Gothic
projects with ribbed vaulted ceiling, buttresses and pointed arches
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Features a Flentrop 5,000-pipe organ, 210-foot tower housing a 50-bell
clarion
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Intricate stained-glass windows and 291-foot aisle
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Seats 1,700
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Smaller memorial chapel (seats 50), includes a crypt with three marble
tombs of the Duke University founders
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77 stained glass windows, depicting some 800 figures
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Historic buildings on 45-acre site include tobacco curing barn, a
tobacco packhouse, one of Washington Duke's tobacco log factories and
the Duke Home
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Family home: a modest two-story, four-room, one-room-deep house built
in 1852
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Interior of house sheathed in unpainted hand-dressed heart of pine
boards
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Tobacco Museum chronicles tobacco and cigarette production and
marketing
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Museum includes animated, computer-operated farmer character who talks
about tobacco farming in this part of the state in the 1920s
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Living history demonstrations of life on a typical yeoman farm in the
1800s
Durham Armory
220 Foster St
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Yellow brick, constructed in 1937 with short crenelated towers at the
corner and terra cotta tile roof
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Decorative brickwork at the cornices, narrow clerestory windows and
tall arches line the first-floor elevations
Historic Durham High School
N Duke St
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1923- Neoclassical Revival style design, features denticulated
cornice, keystones above windows
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School campus includes auditorium, gymnasium and music wing and is now
the Durham Magnet Center for performing arts
Durham Hosiery Mill #1
803 Angier Ave
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1902 - marked by Romanesque Revival-style six-story tower, segmented
and round arched windows and elaborately corbelled bands, arches and
panels
Erwin Mill
2200 W Main St
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Built in 1893, this red brick cotton factory features decorative brick
throughout
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Dropped-shoulder lintels with simulated dentilling at each segmental
arched window
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Office building contains arched vents in each of the gables and a
wraparound porch with turned posts, sawn spandrels and frieze of
turned millwork
GTE Building
Roxboro Rd
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Four-story Neo-Georgian architecture
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1.1 million handmade bricks laid in Flemish bond
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80,000 square feet on 40-acre site with front balcony portico
supported by four columns
Hill Building
(CCB Bank Building)
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111 Corcoran St
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17-story modernistic skyscraper built in 1935
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Architectural firm which designed the Empire State Building
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Art deco ornaments, interior fluted doors and exquisitely crafted
letter box
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Historic St. Joseph's AME Church (1891) is a blend of
Richardsonian-Romanesque and Gothic Revival
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Church features a hilltop view of Downtown and a grand steeple
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23 stained glass windows
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Adjacent cultural center opened in 1991 with two art galleries,
mirrored dance studio, classroom and community room
Historic Stagville
Old Oxford Hwy
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Late 18th and 19th-century plantation buildings occupy 71 acres of
scenic, forested farm lands, formerly at the center of one of the
largest plantation holdings in the South
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Horton Grove consists of four timber-frame houses built in 1851 as
original slave quarters
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Pine planks on the floors are 20' wide and the wooden walls are filled
with brick
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Great barn (135'x33') constructed in large sections called "bents"
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Great barn's massive timber frame was built in 1860 by highly skilled
slave carpenters
NC School of Science and Mathematics
(Formerly Watts Hospital)
1219
Broad St
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1904, fifteen-building complex built as a hospital and nursing school
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Modified Spanish Mission-style architecture
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Stuccoed exterior wall and red tile roofs
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Renaissance Revival-style entrance bays, arcaded loggia and
wrought-iron balconies
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Lobby has marbled floors, wall dadoed in oak and two fireplaces
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Operating room designed with glass wall and ceiling to operate by
sunlight
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First state-wide residential public high school
Old Durham County Courthouse
201 East Main St
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Renovated 1916 Neoclassical revival building of Indiana limestone
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Facade of fluted stone pilasters with Corinthian capitals, solid brass
doors and stone balconies
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Interior includes brass for the balustrades of the white Vermont
marble staircases
Patterson's Mill Country Store
5109 Farrington Rd
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1870s reconstructed turn-of-the-century Country Store with doctor's
office and pharmacy, with finest collections of mercantile Americana
in the country
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Clapboard two-story structure with full front porch, period billboard
and gas pump, vintage advertisements.
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Wraparound balcony overlooks interior filled with glass jars of penny
candy and three 1890 brass cash registers.
Quail Roost Farms
123 Quail Roost Farm Rd
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700-acre working horse farm built in the 1930s has become one of the
nation's leading stable and dairy farms
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Perfect example of rural NC, with four horse barns and hay silos
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Country road runs through the property of rolling hills a with small
pond, hardwoods and pines
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Several period farm estate homes
Spruce Pine Lodge
Off Bahama Rd
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1940s vintage log building overlooking lake in forest setting
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2500-square-feet of floor space
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Four separate rooms plus kitchen
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Log walls and massive stone fireplaces, located on large lawn and play
field with picnic shelter overlooking Lake Michie
Stanford L. Warren Library
1201 Fayetteville St
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Symmetrical Colonial Revival-style brick building constructed in 1940
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Temple-style elevation at the entrance bay and a large Palladian
window in each end elevation
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Interior has terra cotta rondel reliefs portraying classical figures
US Post Office
323 E. Chapel Hill St
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1934 Neo-classical Revival style building, on the National Register
nomination for the Downtown Durham Historic District as "conservative
stylistically but designed with great attention to detail"
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Colonnade of eight monumental columns dominate the exterior, topped
with green tile roof
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Interior handsome classical detailing in iron, brass, copper and
marble decorate the lobby
