As promised (a little while ago) I have scanned the entirety of "The Durham Plan" - Durham's first comprehensive plan, from 1927. It's a fascinating read if you are into figuring out what kind of thinking guided the course of what Durham became over the middle 1/3 of the 20th century. (And if you are reading this website, you probably are.)
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Submitted by John Martin (not verified) on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 12:51am
Gary,
I've tried downloading this twice, and both times I ended up with 89 blank pages. I download a lot of PDF documents, and I never have a problem. Do you know what might be happening?
Or maybe that was truly the 1927 plan: blank, blank, blank, blankety blank? ;)
John
Submitted by Phil (not verified) on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 3:14am
Thanks, Garry --
There's lots of neat stuff in there. On p. 26 there's a photo of Five Points from the east, with a three-storey building at the "point", and a trolley going by. I don't know when that building came down. I don't remember ever seeing it since the 80s, but I may have missed it.
Now it's a small plaza with picnic tables that have chess boards painted into the tops. I don't know if anyone's played yet.
Submitted by Gary (not verified) on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 3:34am
John
Ha! I should have done that just as a joke. But, no, there should be something on those pages, and I'm confused at to what might be the problem since Phil evidently got it ok. It could be a mac/pc thing, but I thought pdf was pretty platform-agnostic. I'll try thinking of another way to construct this from the scanned images...
Phil
That's the Piedmont Building.
It burned in 1965. I have acquired some pictures of the fire which I haven't gotten to add to the above post yet.
It was converted to "Muirhead Plaza" by the early 1970s, which was the previous incarnation of empty brickiness.
GK
Submitted by Gary (not verified) on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 3:49am
OK - you inspired me to get the fire pics added to the Piedmont building post.
GK
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 9:39pm
i've tried this with both mac and pc and neither version has downloaded...any suggestions?
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