Ashton Place

Ashton Place came into being between 1898-1902. The short one-block segment was originally the continuation of Jackson Street, which turned to meet West Pettigrew Street perpendicularly. The street heading eastward from this intersection towards the Blackwell Factory was Dandy Street. In 1902, this "Dandy" segment was named Ashton Place; by 1907, the street heading east-west was entirely Jackson, and the segment turning northward to Pettigrew was Ashton Place.

The street was mostly residential, as was the neigborhood to the south, until the 1960s. Urban Renewal wiped out all of the houses, and construction of the Downtowner Motel cut off the street's connection with West Pettigrew; it remained a cul-de-sac off of Jackson Street until ~2008, when it was eliminated for the construction of the new Durham Bus Station.

414 Ashton Place

414 Ashton Place (Courtesy Durham County Library) ----- (Courtesy Duke Archives) Jackson Street initially ran parallel to West Chapel Hill St. before making a turn in its final block to meet West Pettigrew on a perpendicular. The continuation of the street along the parallel to West Pettigrew Street was called Dandy Street. By the early 20th...

408-410 Ashton Place

408-410 Ashton Place (Courtesy Durham County Library) (Courtesy Duke Archives) Jackson Street initially ran parallel to West Chapel Hill St. before making a turn in its final block to meet West Pettigrew on a perpendicular. The continuation of the street along the parallel to West Pettigrew Street was called Dandy Street. By the early 20th century...

413 Ashton Place

413 Ashton. (Courtesy Durham County Library) (Courtesy Duke Archives) Jackson Street initially ran parallel to West Chapel Hill St. before making a turn in its final block to meet West Pettigrew on a perpendicular. The continuation of the street along the parallel to West Pettigrew Street was called Dandy Street. By the early 20th century, this...

319-321 West Pettigrew

319-321 West Pettigrew, looking southwest, 1965 (Courtesy Durham County Library) West Pettigrew Street, neé Railroad St., began as a residential street situated between the Blackwell Factory and the Duke Factory Looking west from the top of the Blackwell Factory, mid-1880s. Carr St. and an early Blackwell's Durham Tobacco building are in the...

416 Ashton Place

416 Ashton Place (Courtesy Durham County Library) (Courtesy Duke Archives) Jackson Street initially ran parallel to West Chapel Hill St. before making a turn in its final block to meet West Pettigrew on a perpendicular. The continuation of the street along the parallel to West Pettigrew Street was called Dandy Street. By the early 20th century...