The district encompasses 101 contributing buildings in a mixed industrial, commercial, and residential section of Durham.

The buildings primarily date after 1892 and include notable examples of Classical Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne architecture.

4 (1909–10), Erwin Cotton Mills Co. worker's housing (1910s), Fidelity Bank (1920s), E. K. Powe School (1928), Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church (1923), and St. Joseph's Episcopal Church.

[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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