Built in 1910 by Stanislaus Jourdan, who owned the Jourdan Transfer Company in Durham, The Jourdan House is the sole building remaining from a once residential streetscape along South Duke Street north of Morehead Avenue in downtown Durham. Despite early 20th century commercial expansion taking over the surrounding area, this stretch of S. Duke Street remained residential through the 1950s. All but the Jourdan House have since been demolished, but it remains as a phenomenally located property with its early 20th century character intact.