Vivian Street

Austin-Heaton Flour Mill

The site of the 2008, $44 million Durham Performing Arts Center grew as a mixture of industrial and residential uses, located just south of the main railroad depot and just east of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. Julian Carr established the "Carrolina Roller Mills" - a flour mill - in 1902, incorporating the concern on April 21, 1902. The firm was...

Sleep No More

Jaume Plensa -designed sculpture installed outside of DPAC (Copyright Durham Bull Pen) Caged for construction of the aloft hotel as of 2014 04.21.14 (G. Kueber)

Durham Performing Arts Center

The site of the $44 million Durham Performing Arts Center grew as a mixture of industrial and residential uses, located just south of the main railroad depot and just east of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. Julian Carr established the "Carrolina Roller Mills" - a flour mill - in 1902, incorporating the concern on April 21, 1902. The firm was...

Durham Light And Power / Ice Plant / Duke Power

Durham Light and Power, on the left side of Blackwell St., looking southwest, 1906. (Courtesy the University of North Carolina) The Durham Light and Power Company (which I believe later merged with the Durham Traction Company) had its primary power generation facilities on Blackwell St., along with its ice plant. Although the Durham Traction...