Salvation Army

1980

The Perry Building was another of several 1920s-era apartment buildings that accompanied the transition of the near neighborhoods to higher density development, and the shift of Mangum and Geer Streets to major transportation corridors. An earlier 2-story frame structure stood on the northwest corner of N. Mangum and W. Geer. Mangum and Geer, 1913...

Durham Sun building, 1926 The JR Day house was built during the 1880s, and took up about half the block between Queen and Roxboro Sts. The above is a sketch from 1895 of this large, elaborate house. I haven't located a photograph of the front of the house, but I noticed that a picture that purports to show something else entirely - the explosion of...