West Durham

719 Bolton St.

719 Bolton Street prior to demolition in summer 2022 (N. Levy). Triple-A roofed house, seemingly outlined on Sanborn Maps by 1913, but dated in County records to 1925. In the summer of 1945, Odell and Polly E. King purchased the home from their employer, Erwin Cotton Mills Company, which was liquidating its vast stock of worker housing across the...

711 Bolton St.

Undated photo (c.1980s?) found prior to demolition. Triple-A roofed house, likely the latest of this group to be built or moved to this location, dated in County records to 1930. This home is on the site of the former West Durham Presbyterian Church, which became Blacknall Memorial and moved to a new facility on Perry Street in the mid-1920s. In...

738 Rutherford St.

Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with Hillsborough Road, this home had been occupied by the family of Theodore and Hosia Lewis Carden for a few years before the big selloff of Erwin Mills company housing in 1945. Unique among the surrounding mill...

712 Ninth Street

Looking northeast, 12.18.69 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The only frame building remaining on Ninth St., the store at 712 Ninth St. appears to have been built around 1930 as Paul's Place restaurant. By the 1950s, the business had become O'Briant's Restaurant. O'Briant's, looking south, 12.18.69.

Fidelity Bank - West Durham / Bruegger's

One-time West Durham branch for the Fidelity Bank, headquartered in downtown Durham, this Rose and Rose designed neoclassical structure became a Wachovia branch when Wachovia absorbed Fidelity in 1956, and, after the construction of a new Wachovia branch across the street, long-time home to Bruegger's Bagels.

762-764 Ninth

Looking southeast, 1940s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 762-764 Ninth St., the bookend to the two-story structures at the Perry St. end of the Ninth St. commercial strip, appears to have been built in the late 1920s. It initially housed Whitmore’s Bakery at 762 and Mack’s Food Shop at 764. Upstairs tenants appear to...

919 Carolina Ave.

(Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) T-shaped house covered with aluminum siding. Some of the fenestration has been altered and the porch railing has been removed, but the porch retains its original box posts. I assume the house has been significantly changed since 1984, as "some...

814 Carolina Ave.

T-shaped house with replacement fenestration, metal porch supports and railing, and aluminum siding.

901 Virgie Street

900 Virgie Street