Carr Street

Carr Street is named after Julian Shakespeare Carr; Carr seems to have lived briefly at the intersection of Carr Street with West Pettigrew Street. The streets 'framing' the Blackwell Bull Durham Tobacco Company plant on the east and west sides were named after the principals of the company, William T. Blackwell and Carr, respectively.

Carr Street was residential until the early-to-mid-20th century, when those residences began to be replaced with commerical struture and, as time went on, parking. Any remaining residences were demolished during urban renewal. In 2004, the street became more of a parking lot than street, devoted primarily to parking for American Tobacco, with the northernmost block topped by a parking deck.

Corner W. Pettgrew And Carr St. - First Julian Carr House?

(Fragment of panoramic photo taken for a 1926 Chamber of Commerce booklet, scanned by Digital Durham.) The house in the center of the top photo and at the right edge of the above picture, two stories and with two chimneys, presents an interesting conundrum - and that is, whether or not it was Julian Carr's first house when he first moved to Durham...

408 Carr St.

Looking west c.1880s, 408 Carr in the foreground just left and across the street from the back of Reams Warehouse. In the 1897 city directory, when maps indicate this house was numbered 204, the residents were listed as Mr. J. J. and Mrs. Ella R. Lumbley. (Sanborn Map Company, May 1898, Fragment of Sheet 7, available online at Library of Congress)...

614 Carr Street / 500-600 Blocks Carr St.

Looking southwest, 1880s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 500 and 600 blocks of Carr, situated directly across Carr St. from the American Tobacco warehouses, were the early location of company housing - what we'd call 'mill housing' were this a mill; small detached houses with yards that catered to company employees. A view looking east across the tops of...

Reams Warehouse

The first tobacco auction warehouse in Durham- run by Henry Reams, with auctions by EJ Parrish

Washington Building - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co.

The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...

612 Carr St.

612 Carr - a later bungalow, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Looking southwest, 1880s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 500 and 600 blocks of Carr, situated directly across Carr St. from the American Tobacco warehouses, were the early location of company housing - what we'd call 'mill housing' were this a mill; small detached houses with yards that...

502-504 Carr St.

Sandwich shop on the southwest corner of Jackson Street and Carr St., looking southwest. The picture is a bit distorted because I spliced two old pictures together. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Looking southwest, 1880s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 500 and 600 blocks of Carr, situated directly across Carr St. from the American Tobacco warehouses...

410-414 Carr St.

The northwest corner of Jackson and Carr Sts. was developed with residential structures in the 1880s, which remained until the late 1920s. Looking west, 1880s. Looking northeast at the northwest corner of Jackson and Carr, 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Archives/ Digital Durham)

112 Jackson St.

112 Jackson (Courtesy Durham County Library) Looking west from Blackwell's Durham Tobacco company down Dandy (later Jackson) Street, 1880s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 100 and 200 blocks of Jackson St., initially called Dandy St., were developed as housing for workers at Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. one block away. It appears that at least some of...