Reams Warehouse

35.995239, -78.904259

Cross Street
Year built
1874
Year demolished
1902
Construction type
Neighborhood
Building Type
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Looking southwest at the corner of present-day West Pettigrew and Blackwell Sts., sometime between 1874 and 1879.
(From "Bull City Business Bonanza" by Ben and Snow Roberts)

The Reams Warehouse was likely the location of the first tobacco auction in Durham in 1871.

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A wider view - a lot of details differ here, and I wonder if a bit of artistic license was involved.
(Courtesy Duke Manuscript Collection - Wyatt Dixon Collection)

 

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Looking southwest at the corner of present-day West Pettigrew and Blackwell Sts., sometime between 1874 and 1879.
(From "Bull City Business Bonanza" by Ben and Snow Roberts)

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