Live in Cleveland-Holloway

Cleveland-Holloway, on this page, is the area the City of Durham's Neighborhoods reference layer draws east of downtown: 165 acres between Liberty Street and Mallard Avenue, from North Mangum Street east to North Alston Avenue and North Elizabeth Street. The layer has no date, author or definition, so this is not an association's territory, and the guide claims nothing about where residents think the name ends. It held 1,122 residents in 493 housing units at the 2020 census. OpenStreetMap puts a node called Five Points inside the line; the Five Points intersection CenterFest names is downtown on Main Street, and neither has anything to do with Raleigh's Five Points.

This is the half of the neighborhood that survived. Its National Register nomination calls the Holloway Street district what remains of Durham's most fashionable late nineteenth-century neighborhood, begun in the late 1860s along Dillard Street at the east edge of downtown, built with tobacco money. In the 1960s urban renewal wiped out almost all of the original part, from the 1870s, along East Main, Liberty, Dillard and Queen streets. Holloway and Cleveland Streets were spared. North of them, Martha May's land was platted in 1903 and W. Mangum Pratt's in 1906 into a grid of triple-A cottages and foursquares, where tobacco workers, mill hands, railroad men and merchants lived side by side, along with Jewish families who had moved up from the factories on South Mangum Street and Greek families on Mallard Avenue. Large houses on Oakwood Avenue kept falling after the early 1980s.

Three historic lines, and only the two smallest have rules. The City's Cleveland Street and Holloway Street local historic districts, both adopted in 1987 by the date on the City's layer, held 73 and 70 residents. Inside them, exterior changes need a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission; the ordinance itself was not read for this guide, so ask the City's preservation staff what it covers before you offer. The 2009 boundary increase of the Holloway Street National Register district takes in about 28.7 acres north to Mallard Avenue and 360 more residents, but a Register listing restricts nothing a private owner does with private money. By the census blocks, 619 residents lived outside every one of these lines.

The tax bill is the plain City rate, almost everywhere. Durham County's 57.92 cents and the City's 43.71 make 101.63 per $100 for fiscal 2026-27, on values the County set at market on 1 January 2025 and will hold until 2029. The downtown improvement district reaches into the southwest corner, 14.7% of the area but only nine residents in 2020, and adds 7 cents there. The City's stormwater fee for a house is $5.70 to $23.64 a month on the utility bill, and North Carolina has no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer. No sale price is published for the neighborhood: Zillow's $421,664 for August 2026 is the whole 27701 ZIP code, downtown condominiums included.

Day to day, it is downtown's front porch. The County's Main Library is inside the line on North Roxboro Street, and City Hall is about 0.6 km away. Route 9 stops 0.27 km from the reference point every 30 minutes at weekday midday, and route 3 on Holloway Street every 20. No supermarket is inside; the nearest OpenStreetMap lists is 2.09 km away. No resident of 2020 lived on a block in a mapped flood hazard area, though FEMA's panel at the point dates from 2006. The two census tracts holding most of the residents count 1.5% and 5.2% of their people in college, with margins wider than the figures.