Residential

Plyer-Raba House

(11.16.2017 - Durham County Tax Administration photo) In italics below from the 2004 filing for the Trinity Park National Register Historic District boundary increase that included this property: Rev. Marion T. Plyler House. Colonial Revival-style 2-story brick house with side-gabled roof and flanking flat-roofed wings with wooden roof balustrades...

509 Mobile Avenue

(June 1965 image from Durham Urban Renewal Records - Durham County Library, available online at DigitalNC.org) Based on the 1963 City Directory, the last known resident of this house was a Mrs. Ruth Williams. By the time of the property appraisals that preceded the demolition of this house and the entire surrounding block, this and the dozen homes...

408 Carr St.

Looking west c.1880s, 408 Carr in the foreground just left and across the street from the back of Reams Warehouse. In the 1897 city directory, when maps indicate this house was numbered 204, the residents were listed as Mr. J. J. and Mrs. Ella R. Lumbley. (Sanborn Map Company, May 1898, Fragment of Sheet 7, available online at Library of Congress)...

1106 Englewood Ave.

(Advertisement from the Durham Sun, April 15, 1940, referenced in lecture by Jennifer Martin of MdM Historical Consultants during events for April 2019 Preservation Durham home tour.) Part of the development of the northern phase of Trinity Park laid out from the 1930s, this home was designed by the architect George Hackney - who worked on many...

Cash Waller House

In 2016, the owners of this home applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application which was prepared by Jan Hessing and Tom Miller. In 1924, the city limits were expanded and the city suddenly grew from 3.87 sq. miles to 11.5 sq. miles. The 1925 edition of Hill's...

Thomas J Rigsbee Farm / Duke University West Campus

Large farmland of the TJ Rigsbee family was bought by James B. Duke / Trinity College for the construction of Duke University

1502 East Pettigrew Street

Long-time grocery store and eatery along the south side of the railroad tracks in East Durham. Listed as Catlett's Restaurant in Victor H. Green's The Negro Motorist Green Book guide for African American travelers in the 1947-1949 editions. More recently used as a residential duplex.

614 Carr Street / 500-600 Blocks Carr St.

Looking southwest, 1880s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 500 and 600 blocks of Carr, situated directly across Carr St. from the American Tobacco warehouses, were the early location of company housing - what we'd call 'mill housing' were this a mill; small detached houses with yards that catered to company employees. A view looking east across the tops of...

Building Six (hosiery Mill) - Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. / Hillcrest Hosiery Mills

Building 6, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The history of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco (later American Tobacco) and the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. are inextricably mingled. In 1887, the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. originated in a portion of the Bull Durham Tobacco Factory (the white building at the northern extent of the American Tobacco complex)...

1007 Morning Glory Ave.

1007 Morning Glory in 01.11.08 A small portion of 1007 Morning Glory is visible on the right in this 1979 shot. (NCSHPO) 1007 Morning Glory was a long-time Vinson Braswell property that was purchased in 2006 by the Durham Housing Authority. As funding wound down for the HOPE VI project, none evidently remained to renovate 1007 Morning Glory. The...