Masonry

400-402 East Peabody

Some of the buildings I've most enjoyed seeing re-done in other cities are train-related - stations/depots of course, but also the kind of wholesale companies that lined the railroad tracks in many cities. A line of these type of structures were spread along the railroad tracks along the 300 block of East Peabody St. Looking east from the First...

1102-1104 Broad

1102-1104 Broad (with Somethyme on the left,) 1974 1102-1104 Broad St., 06.27.09 1102-1104 Broad was built in the late 1940s, initially housing Sanders Florist at 1102 and the Hostess Restaurant at 1104. In ~1974, 1104 became the location of Somethyme, Mary Bacon's restaurant that was the forerunner for Pyewacket in Chapel Hill, and the very...

101 Morris Street - The Salvation Army

This citadel-like structure was home to the Salvation Army for most of the 20th century

500 Morgan St.

Morris Street was one of the early, prominent residential sections of Durham, developed with larger, two-story houses during the 1880s and 1890s. This residential development was interrupted by the development of Fallon and Martin Company, followed by the Imperial Tobacco Company in the 200 block of Morris St. Looking northwest and Morgan and Morris, 1924 (Courtesy Durham County LIbrary)

The Wright Corner / Main And Corcoran - Sw

One of the earliest mixed-purpose office buildings in Durham, Richard Wright's "Wright's Corner" survived in modified form until 1961.

Bassett Dormitory

A dormitory named for Professor John Spencer Bassett, most well-known for the 'Bassett Affair"

1102-1104 Holloway Street

1102-1104 Holloway Street, 10.02.10 1102-1104 Holloway appears to have been built between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, "B's Home Cash Grocery" is a business located at this address. In 1934, it is referred to as "Beck's Cash Grocery." In 1941, 1102 had converted to a part of the Purity Stores grocery chain, and 1104 was Pop's Place, confectionery. These...

771 Ninth Street / 2001 Hillsborough Road

Hillsborough Road and Ninth St., looking west, ~1958 (Courtesy Barry Norman) The service station at 771 9th St. / 2001 Hillsborough Road was initially the Council Service Station, built during the early 1930s. The building became Moore's Texaco, and, by the late 1950s, the McAfee Service Station. It then had a stint as a drive-in shoe shop, and idea whose time has surely come again.

Liggett And Myers New Cigarette Factory

--- The site just to the west of the first Duke Factory was Washington Duke's first in-town home. (Durham Historic Inventory) In 1884, Duke built a new brick factory, just to the east of his house and original factory. In 1888, he built a new house, which he called Fairview. Looking west, with the old factory building to the right. The steeple of...

Duke Memorial Methodist

The home church of the Duke family, this congregation began at Gregson and West Main before moving to this impressive Duke-funded edifice in 1912.