North Roxboro Street

700 North Roxboro Street, 1980

613 North Roxboro Street, 1980

605 N Roxboro, 1980 1981 Durham Tech survey: sitting on a solid cinder-block foundation is an carly 20th century Victorian, German-sided, one-story, triple-A, with a gabled L-wing on the north rear to which has been added two shed additions. A single, interior, brick chimney pierces the asphalt shingled roof which has boxed cornices with returns...

512 North Roxboro, 1980

202 East Trinity, 12.21.61 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Owens Grocery was out of business by the 1980s, when it was simply described in the national register nomination as "A one story [store]front not in use. Rectangular shape with gable roof with rectangular stopped facade in front. Asphalt shingles over German siding." 1981 (Courtesy...

Union Missionary Baptist, 1960s. Union Missionary Baptist was founded in 1897, when John Robinson, Ed Hockaday, and John Thomas, with the help of Aaron Moore and White Rock Baptist Church organized a Sunday School for Baptist families living in the East End.

Dowd and N. Roxboro, southwest, 04.17.68 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Dowd and N. Roxboro, southwest, 10.22.10 Find this spot on a Google Map.

Looking northeast, 1937. The 200 block of North Roxboro was residential well into the mid-20th century - the Afton Inn was a large rooming/boarding house ("one of the better known in Durham" according to Wyatt Dixon) in this block, seen on the right with a two-story wrap-around porch. It appears to have been known as the "Lyon House" in an earlier...

The south side of the 300 block of Liberty St. had, much like the 100 block of North Queen St., succumbed to some decay and commercial creep by the mid-1960s. Only two of the once continuous row of large homes remained in January 1966. 208 North Roxboro The remainder of these houses, and the gas station, were demolished by the city using urban renewal funds.

The east side of the 300 block of Roxboro consisted of apartment houses - as did much of the first few blocks of Roxboro north of Main St. 302 N. Roxboro, on the northeast corner of Roxboro and Liberty, 1963. 304 N. Roxboro, 1963 306 N. Roxboro, 1963. With the seemingly-ubiquitous-during-the-60s corner service station close at hand. 302 N. Holloway...