Residential

1005 Worth St.

1203 Wall St.

1984 One-story, one-room-deep house with triple-A roof and rear ell, built c. 1900. Retains central corbelled chimney but has been extensively altered with replacement metal porch posts and gable vents and aluminum siding. Sizable shed addition to rear.

1002 Cleveland St.

(12.18.2018 by N. Levy) A short block from Old Five Points, this century-old house was described as "contributing to but not included" in the Cleveland Street historic district when it was created in the 1980s. It lies just outside of this boundary as well as the adjacent Old North Durham historic district. A photographer for the Historic American...

Durham Hosiery Mill No. 1

The Durham Hosiery Company had its beginnings in 1894, when it was organized by George Graham, and began operations in a building on Church St., and subsequently, Morris St. Later that same year, Julian Carr and John W. Smith organized the Golden Belt Hosiery Company (a different entity than the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.) and located the new company at Five Points, at "the southward intersection of Main and Chapel Hill Sts." Given that the current buildings at that location were built during the 1920s, this building is likely gone.

907 Orient St.

08.30.18 (N. Levy) Like much of the surrounding Pearl Cotton Mill Village, this two-story house was built as a duplex for factory workers and their families around 1905. Sold along with the other mill-owned houses in the area in 1945 or 1946, it was still rented as a duplex when recorded as "largely unaltered" in a 1984 National Historic District...

811 Vickers Avenue

811 Vickers, 01.05.67 Looking northeast, 01.05.67 (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The four Craftsman-style houses at the northeast corner of Parker and Vickers (two on Parker and two on Vickers) remain essentially unchanged from the view of this corner in 1967. However, the major change occurred immediately to the northeast of these houses, and the Durham...

1208 Cornell Street / James Alston House

312 Oakwood Avenue

310 and 312 Oakwood were built prior to 1913, contemporaneous with the development of houses along Holloway St. 1/2 block away. While they were in the middle of a large neighborhood by the 1920s, they were placed at the edge of the neighborhood by urban renewal clearance to the southwest.

1704 W. Lakewood Ave.

1704 W. Lakewood Ave, Durham NC built in 1914

108 Jackson St.

Looking west from Blackwell's Durham Tobacco company down Dandy (later Jackson) Street, 1880s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 100 and 200 blocks of Jackson St., initially called Dandy St., were developed as housing for workers at Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. one block away. It appears that at least some of this housing was company-built, but I haven't...