Laundry

Taken from the Edgemont Community Center, looking north across Angier Avenue Home To Bryant's Little Laundry and Wiley Evans Cafe (at 903) in the 1960s

508-510 East Pettigrew, looking southeast, July 1965. The railroad siding in the foreground ran down Branch Place alongside the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 2. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The building at 506-510 E. Pettigrew was built in the early 1930s, initially housing Israel Gordon's Fish Market on the corner (506)...

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) I have no street-level pictures of the houses arrayed along the arc of the former streetcar line, which turned southwest from West Chapel Hill St. at Kent St. to head towards Lakewood Park. However, you can get a sense of a residential transition area that is, at the time of this 1959...

The 200 block of Holloway was a transitional block between downtown and the East End during the middle portion of the 20th century. As Highway 98/US 70 leading into downtown, (in the pre-interstate era), gas stations and small services proliferated along Holloway. (Holloway was a dominantly residential street in the early 20th century, with the...

One of the earliest masonry structures built in what is now the core of downtown, west of Corcoran St. was the Armory Building, built ~1895. Through 1902, the structure is labeled as "Corporation Stable and Armory Hall (2nd)". In 1907, the Durham Steam Laundry and Model Laundry appear to have taken over the first floor, although the Armory Hall is...