Modern

Home Security Life Building in 1959

Home Security Life Building

Modernist office building built by the Hill family in 1957 for their Home Security Life insurance company. In the 1990s, it became the headquarters for the Durham Police Department. Vacant since 2019.

2421 Perkins Road

Per Triangle Modernist Houses: Colonel Rambeau House Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker and builder, who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951. Added a garage. Sold to the Mitchells. Sold in 1957 to Charles Albert (Al) Hilliard who added the back room and bath and then joined it to the garage...

Scarborough And Hargett (dillard Street)

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410 W. Geer St.

Originally the Hometown Sales and Service - a dealership for Kaiser Frazer automobiles, 410 W. Geer has housed the predecessor to Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, the North Carolina Fund, and now is the Trotter building - an event center and retail space.

King's Red And White

As far as I know, the last of the once common Red and White grocery stores in Durham is King's, at North Roxboro and East Club Boulevard. It's likely the oldest continually operating supermarket left in Durham.

512-516 East Pettigrew

Looking southwest, ~1970. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking east down the south side of East Pettigrew St., ~1970. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

126 Nelson Street

Built by Clyde and Eleanor H. Lloyd from mail-order plans, the house at 126 Nelson Street is unusual - a late application of the Art Moderne style, a definite deviation from the other brick ranches in the block in a traditionally African-American neighborhood. Sold in 2004 to James and Edwina Hunter.

Mary B. And John M. Gregory House

Large side-gabled Ranch house with asbestos siding, 2-over-2 horizontal sash windows, a recessed door with a brick planter, and interior chimney. John M. Gregory, president of Gregory Real Estate, was owner-occupant in 1955.

Estelle S. And Joseph D. Rivers House

Split-level type house with such Modernist features as a concrete block lower level containing a garage and attached carport with metal pip posts, asbestos siding, tar-and-gravel roofs, and a large interior chimney. Joseph D. Rivers, an architect at George W. Carr Associates, was the owner-occupant in 1950.

Julia And Robert W. Carr House I.

Split-level type house with side-gable roof, interior chimney, asbestos siding, and a door set in a shallow engaged porch. Alterations include replacement casement windows and artificial siding on the left wing. Robert W. Carr , architect at George W. Carr Associates, built this for his family about 1950.