Willard Street

600 Willard / Ramada Inn

The hotel/motelly goodness that inhabits the 3.71 acres of prime real estate at South Duke Street and the Freeway was likely built in the early 1970s, on land that had been cleared by urban renewal.

Ernie Barnes House

1013 Willard Street, 1950s (Courtesy of the Ernie Barnes Family Trust) Intersection of Willard St. and Johnson St., 1959 - 1013 Willard is marked with the red dot. Note the two round houses on South Duke St. for orientation. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Ernest Barnes was born July 15, 1938, in 'The Bottoms' section of Durham - an area that sat...

419 Willard St.

Nc Mutual Annex Building

01.16.70 (Photo by the Herald-Sun) 03.16.08 (Photo by Gary Kueber) On 02.01.12, Greenfire announced that it would, in partnership with Armada Hoeffler, redevelop this 2 acre site with newly constructed apartments. (Meaning the annex would come down.) (Photo via Greenfire Development) Text of the announcement: February 1, 2012, Durham, NC –...

716 Willard

716 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...

714 Willard

714 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...

712 Willard

712 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...

710 Willard

710 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...

708 Willard

708 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...

706 Willard

706 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...