35.99709, -78.904079
Cross Street
Year demolished
1974
Construction type
Local historic district
National Register
Neighborhood
Use
Building Type
![400-404WMain_1970.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2011_6/400-404WMain_1970.jpg?itok=UaOOTX9A)
(Durham County Library)
Built in the 1930s.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2014_9/corner_morris_wmain_1939.jpg?itok=Nn5T4wTH)
1939 Duke Homecoming Parade (Retrochrome.net) showing 400 W. Main as the "Advance Store" and "Durham Beauty Academy." I was a bit loath to believe that this shot was from as early as 1939, but I can't imagine the "Advance Store" would use a rising sun logo after the early 1940s.
![400-404WMain_1_012858.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2011_6/400-404WMain_1_012858.jpg?itok=UEbWY3vH)
01.28.58
![400-404WMain_2_012858.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2011_6/400-404WMain_2_012858.jpg?itok=cbCQGhCp)
01.28.58
![](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2014_1/400wmain_N_before_1971.jpg?itok=P3BnhnZW)
(Photo by George Pyne via Milo Pyne)
![](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2014_1/dryclean_400wmain_only_1973.jpg?itok=V_o7O5AQ)
(Photo by George Pyne via Milo Pyne)
![](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2014_1/anothervictim_1973.jpg?itok=5PHtQx5n)
(Photo by George Pyne via Milo Pyne)
Completed First Federal Building.
(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)
![](/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/images/2013_5/southbank_042713.jpg?itok=XHEvZCRS)
04.27.13
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