[Durham INC] Preservation Durham needs Docents - please repost on your neighborhood lists

[Tom Miller]

Dear Neighbors:

 

Preservation Durham needs about twenty-five more docents for the Home Tour
on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28.  I hope you can spare a couple
of hours on one of those days.

 

This year's tour focuses on houses built Just before and just after World
War II.  It's an interesting period.  Before the war, the country was
emerging form the Great Depression.  During the Depression years very few
new homes were built.  The housing and banking industries were flat on their
backs.  Roosevelt's New Deal government created programs to get affordable
new homes built again.  The new Federal Housing Administration even invented
a new style of house to match the demands of the programs.  Then came the
war and home construction stopped again as materials and production were
switched to the war effort.  At the end of the war, the government used its
war powers to redirect materials into the construction of millions of
affordable new homes for returning vets. These houses still make up the bulk
of Durham's affordable houses today.  At the same time, the restoration of
Colonial Williamsburg by the Rockefellers stimulated a new interest in
Colonial Revival houses.  It was also the period when the Ranch style was
born.

 

The tour will feature houses representing all of these types and styles.
There are three houses in Trinity Park, thee more in Watts-Hillandale, two
in Northgate Park, and one in Forest Hills.  The tour will invite folks to
look at the house from this period in a whole new light.

 

The tour runs from noon until 4 p.m. on Saturday and again on Sunday.
Docent shifts run from noon until 2 p.m. and from 2 until 4 p.m. each day.
It's pretty easy lifting.  Docents at each house assist tour-goers and
answer questions about the houses from house histories provided by
Preservation Durham's architectural historians.  Docent get a free ticket to
go on the tour.

 

If you were looking for a volunteer project this is a great one.  It's a
great way to learn a little Durham history too.

 

Please contact Kathy Carter, Tour Chair, to volunteer
<mailto:kathycarter at nc.rr.com> kathycarter at nc.rr.com.

 

Thanks.

 

Tom Miller

 

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