Post Office

After the elimination of the reservoir near the corner of Ninth Street and West Main Street, a new West Durham Post Office was constructed on the west side of Ninth Street in 1961. The old post office / company store was demolished that same year. Demolition of the West Durham Post Office. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) You can...

When Captain Addison Mangum, a cousin of United States Senator Willie P. Mangum, took over operations of the Flat River Post Office, he moved it in 1858 to this one-story two-room structure on his farm. There the post office and Mangum’s law office shared quarters with one room reportedly allocated to each purpose. The small frame building is...

Dedication of the then-new Bahama post office, 04.17.66. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

The West Duke Building contained the college barbershop, bookstore, post office, and held a theater in the basement. The psychology (and parapsychology) departments were located on the 2nd floor after 1935.

One of two buildings built during the initial construction of the Trinity College campus that remains standing in its original location, the Crowell Building was initially called the "Technological Building" because it housed the School of Technology. The building housed drafting rooms, and laboratories for chemistry, physics, and biology. The main generator for the campus was housed in the basement. The building was renamed the Crowell Building in 1896 in honor of President Crowell's wife.

Named for a post office once housed within its walls, Galveston grew in several stages according to the needs of its occupants. A two-story, antebellum, side-gable I-house with restrained Greek Revival detailing was enlarged in the late nineteenth century when a one-story gable-roofed ell was constructed for the post office and joined to the main...