Seminary Street

Farmer's Supply - Rigsbee Ave.

Looking northwest, 1940s (Library of Congress - FSA) (Library of Congress - FSA) Although the structure below bears some resemblance in styling, I believe the Farmer's Exchange was destroyed by the 1944 fire that also destroyed the Big 4 warehouse, and the structure below must have replaced it. From the roof of the Roycroft Warehouse, looking south...

501 N. Mangum St.

Mangum 506

--- Looking northeast, 1948 The northeast corner of North Mangum and Wyatt Streets was residential until ~1930; the last house at 502 N. Mangum was inhabited in 1923 by HD O'Briant. By 1934, a filling/service station had taken its place on the corner, known as the Mangum-Wyatt Service Station. (It is frequently abbreviated "Man-Wy Service Station"...

Durham Female Institute / Baptist Female Seminary

1898 Sanborn Map

108 Seminary Street

110 Seminary Street

425 North Mangum Street - Haywood House

1898 Sanborn Map The seminary that gave Seminary Street its name was located on the southwest corner of Seminary St. and North Mangum St. The school - known alternately, it seems, as the Baptist Female Seminary, the Durham Female Institute, or the Durham Baptist Seminary was established and built in 1881 by Atlas Rigsbee and was affiliated with the...

Depositors National Bank Drive-In

Depositors Bank branch, 05.28.57 (Courtesy Herald-Sun) It's the kind of mid-century commercial history that is hard to nail down, but I think the Depositors National Bank Drive-thru at Foster and Seminary Streets may have been the first bank with a drive-thru in Durham. The Depositors National Bank was the 1933 successor of the First National Bank...

Liberty Warehouse No 1 / Star Warehouse No. 2

Looking east from Rigsbee Ave. and Seminary St., 1940 (Courtesy Library of Congress) The original Liberty Warehouse was located at the northeast corner of Rigsbee Avenue and Seminary St. The warehouse was constructed in the early 1930s, and operated by Satterfield and Stone. Looking north up Rigsbee Ave. from Seminary St., 1940. The Roycroft...

Roycroft Warehouse

Sale day, 1940. Looking northwest from Rigsbee Ave. and Seminary St. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)