WG PEARSON ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE SCHOOL
WG Pearson School, 1950s.
(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)
Designed by George Watts Carr, Sr. the WG Pearson Elementary School was built in 1928. It is one of the most impressive of the 1920s-1930s era school buildings, both in terms of the building architecture and the relation of the building to the site and the surrounding neighborhood.
Looking north, 1940s.
(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)
The school is named for WG Pearson who lived nearby on Fayetteville St. Pearson was highly respected in the community for his leadership/stewardship of, first, the Whitted Graded School, and then the Hillside Park High School.
WG Pearson Middle School, 11.15.08
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3 comments:
The new windows are completely inappropriate for that building. At least it hasn't been demolished though.
It looks like a mini cotton mill!
It makes me proud too see a structure named after my great-great uncle W.G. Pearson still stands and is functioning. Whenever I visit Durham I well up with so much pride and pain; pain for what was lost. My grandmother, Minnie Pearson(his niece) taught as Hillside, her home was recently demolished due to expansion of the college. I find that in this the day of the "tear it down and build a Starbucks mentality", which is so pervasive in California and elsewhere, it's refreshing to see that "we" have not lost a sense of pride in our hard fought accomplishments. Newer and bigger isn't always better or necessary.
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