Albemarle Street

Previously Jones Street, it was renamed after 1913 to avoid confusion with other Jones streets in Durham. Its namesake candidates include the town of Albemarle, NC, the former Albemarle County, N.C., Albemarle Sound and the current Albemarle County, Va. (History Beneath our Feet.)

205 Albemarle Street

01.17.12 From the TP NR nomination: W.T. Purvis, who lived at 1003 Lamond Ave., had this Foursquare constructed in the 1920s for rental property. Modest Colonial Revival detailing on the two-story frame structure is restricted to the Palladian windcm arrangement in the gabled attic dormer. 08.23.13 (G. Kueber) This house has been bizarrely...

Ivy Room / 1000 West Main Street

As downtown's beloved Jo and Joe's closed this weekend, it seems fitting to recall a previous lost love - the Ivy Room. The building at 1000 West Main Street was built in the 1930s and originally occupied by "The Goody Shop" (in the eastern portion) and "Pender's Stores" - a grocery - in the western portion. Looking northwest, ~1940 (North Carolina...

208 Albemarle St.

08.23.13 (G. Kueber)

201 Albemarle St.

01.12.12 (DC tax office) From the TP NR nomination: Reported by a fonner resident of 205 Albemarle (formerly Jones St.) to be the Tinzen family home, this plain but handsome Neo-Colonial house, built c. 1910, exhibits characteristics of two stories with a cross-gabled roof and side hall plan. Decoration of the frame house is restricted to box...

1001 Lamond Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination) A two-story frame upstairs/downstairs duplex identical to duplex at 1011 Dacian Avenue. Built late 1920s by W.T. Purvis who lived next door at 1003 Lamond.

827 Morgan St.

02.66 I feel almost as if it were some sort of failing that, after a cumulative 20 years in Durham (as of 2012,) I've never once ventured into Shooters (II). It's always surprisingly difficult to find out the history of a place like this without going to interview someone - or if a post like this inspires a comment from the institutional memory out...

Annamaria's Pizza

(Courtesy Robby Delius) A former house on Albemarle St. (which itself was formerly Jones St.) became a well-loved, and purportedly the first, pizza place in Durham. Opened in 1958 by Bartholamew (Bat) and Annamaria Malanga, the pizza joint was a regular hangout of Duke students. (Courtesy Duke Yearlook) Annamaria's - 1981 Looking west, ~1985...

912-914 West Main

Replacing residential structures built in the 1910s-1920s, the commercial structures at 910-912 West Main Street were built in the late 1930s or early 1940s. 912 appears to have been built first, and originally contained "Son's Fruit and Produce"; by 1955, the western portion (912) contained the "West Main Fruit Market" and 910 contained "Edward's Florist." The building housed 3 businesses, with one opening onto Albemarle Street.