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771 Ninth Street / 2001 Hillsborough Road

Hillsborough Road and Ninth St., looking west, ~1958 (Courtesy Barry Norman) The service station at 771 9th St. / 2001 Hillsborough Road was initially the Council Service Station, built during the early 1930s. The building became Moore's Texaco, and, by the late 1950s, the McAfee Service Station. It then had a stint as a drive-in shoe shop, and idea whose time has surely come again.

707-709 Fayetteville

707-709 Fayetteville, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Scanned by Digital Durham)

First Federal / Southbank Building

1974 The First Federal Savings building was constructed in 1974 on a city block that had been razed via urban renewal. This block was built up over the course of the early 20th century, evolving from an 'accessory industrial' and residential area to a retail area during the 1920s. Remnants of the residential form are still evident in the picture...

Scarborough And Hargett (dillard Street)

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127-129 East Main Street

Looking west-northwest from Church St. and East Main St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The 100 block of East Main St. was part of the central core of downtown that developed during the 1880s, with early frame structures transitioning to brick by 1890. Clothing and drugstores were common tenants, and another of Durham's early newspapers, the...

106 South Alston Avenue

806 Ninth Street

806 Ninth St., 09.12.09 Looking west from ~Iredell, ~1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The east side of the 800 block of Ninth St. was residential through much of the 20th century. A frame structure at the north end of the block housed the West Durham Wet Wash Laundry, which became the White Star Laundry, during the 1920s - before that...

Jp Jones And Son General Store

3635 Angier Avenue, 1951 "J.P. Jones & Son, general store at 3635 Angier Avenue, carries a large line of food, staples, appliances, farm equipment, feed, seed, and fertilizers, serving the trade in Durham, Orange, Person, Granville, Wake, and Chatham Counties. This business was founded in Wake (now Durham) County in 1893 by MC and RM Jones, but was...

417-419 North Mangum

The residential portion of Mangum still extended south into the 400 block of Mangum when this picture was taken in the early 1920s. The houses are variably visible past the gas station, looking northwest from the intersection of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill St. With ~10 years, the commercial expansion of downtown had claimed these residences with a produce market and a (used) car dealership.

212 North Corcoran St.

Durham Morning Herald clipping from September 10, 1916 (online via NCLive). J. T. Christian had this building constructed in 1916 as a new home for his printing company, which had previously operated out of the Herald building on Market Street. The above image was part of a two-page spread Christian took out in the Morning Heral to promote the...