Industrial

John O'daniel Hosiery Mill / Farmers' Exchange

Scanned from 1924 Durham City of Industry book. Another of my favorite buildings in Durham, the John O'Daniel Hosiery Mill building, was built at 801 Gilbert St. in the late 1910s as the Paragon Hosiery Mill. It changed names rather quickly thereafter to become the Bowling-Emory Knitting Mill before being acquired in 1919 by Julian S. Carr as a...

900 Dacian Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1920s two-story cubical, flat-roofed building with symmetrical main facade, two entrances under a single terra cotta tile-covered hood, and a shed-roofed porch on simple posts at each side elevation. Veneered in beige brick.

Durham Hosiery Mill No. 6 - Cotton Warehouse

06.25.13 This cotton warehouse, with brick end walls and pilasters, later infilled with concrete block between pilasters, is the last remaining building of the destroyed Durham Hosiery Mills No. 6 complex that sat across Henderson Street. It was originally built ~1916, per the Durham County tax records. Note "Edge of Brick Building" on lot #11...

Durham Hosiery Mills Dye House

Built as a central Dye House for the Durham Hosiery Mill Company in 1921-1922, 708 Gilbert closed during the Great Depression (1934,) but reopened in 1941-1942 as part of the Durham Farmers Mutual Exchange - serving as a seed cleaning and inoculation facility and "service store"

309 Portland Avenue / New Street / Carver Storage Warehouses

309 Portland, as seen from Warren Street, looking north. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Portland Avenue was a fairly grand sounding name for a one-block long street that had been called "New Street" during the early 20th century, a street whose primary feature was two large shed warehouses that fronted on Warren Street, to the west, as well...