Durham | Buildings

Durham

About Durham

Population

239,358 in city
1,742,816 in metro

Size

245 km² (95 mi²)

Altitude

122.573249817 m

Durham is an important industrial, educational, technology and health care center. The seat of Durham County, it is located about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Raleigh in the north central part of the state. With Raleigh and Chapel Hill it forms a metropolitan area of more than 1.5 million people. The Durham area was first settled by Scotch Irish in the 1750s. It began to grow after the coming of the railroad and industrial development shortly before the Civil War. The chief industry was tobacco, developed in large part by the Duke family, founders of American Tobacco Company. Duke philanthropy developed Duke University and the Duke University Medical Center, two of the mainstays of the local economy. Also of critical economic importance is the 5000-acre Research Triangle Park, founded in 1959 as an industrial and governmental research center.

Metro Cities

Advance, Apex, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Dunn, Durham, Eagle Rock, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, New Hill, Raleigh, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, Willow Spring, Zebulon

No. of Buildings

No.	Current status
160	All Buildings
144	existing
1	under construction
6	planned
5	unbuilt
4	demolished

Tallest Buildings

#	Building	Height	Year
1	University Tower	356 ft	1986
2	One City Center	300 ft	2018
3	Durham Centre	273 ft	1988
4	The Tower at Mutual Plaza	252 ft	1965
5	SunTrust Tower	202 ft	1937

Building types

No.	Type
124	low-rise building
12	high-rise building
8	mast (pole)
5	mast (framework)
4	open-air structure
2	mast (wired)
2	church
1	chimney
1	water tower
1	skyscraper