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Clipping of units nearing completion from The Durham Sun, 7.10.1971 (From a scrapbook collection, courtesy of Durham Housing Authority) Planned from the mid-1960s with the help of federal funding for both clearing existing structures and constructing public housing, the Liberty Street Apartments covered a site of roughly 9.25 acres just to the east...

The same architect that designed the Hill Building, VA hospital, watts hospital, wg person, east end school, nccu bulidings. It's in danger of demolition in 2019; we need to save this historic building.

The buildings on the northeast corner of East Main St. and North Mangum St. were constructed sometime prior to 1891 and housed a variety of commercial establishments, the first being the T.J. Lambe's men's clothing store. Looking northeast from Mangum and Main, 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) By 1937, the Harvey Cafeteria was located in the...

Looking northeast from Proctor and S. Duke - site of the old George Watts home / Durham Academy, 01.01.08 Eugene Morehead and George Watts were pioneers in the area that would become Morehead Hill when they built their houses on the western side of Lee (later Duke) St. in 1880. As the activity in the neighborhood increased, WT Blackwell sought to...

1960s (Courtesy Ralph Rogers) The third iteration of Fire Station #1 was part of an urban renewal project that demolished part of the formerly exclusive Cleveland Street neighborhood north of downtown. The 500 block of Cleveland St. was, by the early 20th century, filled with large Victorian houses, constituting part of the first wave of...