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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.

(Courtesy Scientific Properties) The Clark & Sorrell garage had its origins in an auto repair shop at 214 E. Parrish St. opened by LeRoy Clark in the late 1910s. Donnie Sorrell had left Durham to attend business school in New York ~1920, and returned to Durham intending to establish a business. Clark was interested in expanding his repair shop, and the two partnered as Clark and Sorrell, Inc. on January 1, 1922.

The Durham Hosiery Company had its beginnings in 1894, when it was organized by George Graham, and began operations in a building on Church St., and subsequently, Morris St. Later that same year, Julian Carr and John W. Smith organized the Golden Belt Hosiery Company (a different entity than the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.) and located the new company at Five Points, at "the southward intersection of Main and Chapel Hill Sts." Given that the current buildings at that location were built during the 1920s, this building is likely gone.

Looking southeast from Aniger Avenue and South Alston, 1926. (From "Durham: Center of Industry and Education") Likely my favorite church building in Durham, the Asbury Temple United Methodist church was built around 1925 on the southeast corner of Angier Avenue and Alston Avenue. Simple neoclassical wings extending at right angles toward Angier and...

Yarbrough Mill, ~1925 - looking northwest from Calvin St. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Yarbrough Mill, a hosiery mill, was established on Calvin St., near Holloway St. around 1925. There is very little extant detail about the origin or operation of the mill. Yarbrough Mills interior, undated, but mid to late...

The spire of St. Joseph's visible ~2 blocks away on the right, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham)

2006 - (G. Kueber) The Emmanuel AME church on Kent St., near the intersection of Kent and Chapel Hill St., is the oldest brick church building in Durham, constructed in 1888 on land donated by the Fitzgerald family. The church is now covered in stucco, obscuring most of the original brickwork, but some can still be seen on the tower. Most of the...

Hardscrabble, 02.12.09 The origins of Hardscrabble seem a bit muddled, but the story I'm going to go with is that the original section of the Georgian-style house was built in 1775 by William and Elizabeth Clenny on a hillside adjacent to the old Indian Trading Path. In 1779 they sold the house and 227 acres to James Cain and his son John, who had...

The farm the would become Bennett Place consisted of 325 acres when James and Nancy Bennitt settled on the farm in 1840. The Bennitts grew corn, wheat, oats, and potatoes, and raised hogs. Bennitt was also a tailor, cobbler, and sold horse feed, tobacco plugs, and distilled liquor.