East Parrish Street

118-120 East Parrish

Some blocks are just really, really hard to put together a sequence of images for - the south side of the 100 block of East Parrish St. is one of those. Below is one of the few views of the block face, with 108 East Parrish clearly visible, and the remaining structures rather fuzzy. Looking east, 1940. Another view of the block, from a colorized...

116-118 East Parrish Street

116 E. Parrish, The Oriental, 1954. Some blocks are just really, really hard to put together a sequence of images for - the south side of the 100 block of East Parrish St. is one of those. The "Oriental" - one of Durham's earliest Asian restaurants, was established in this block, at 116 East Parrish St., in 1938. Below is one of the few views of...

202-210 North Mangum / Rogers' Drug Store

Rogers Drugstore, 1968 --- Looking northeast from the corner of Parrish St. and N. Mangum St., 1890s (Courtesy Duke Archives) (Courtesy Duke Archives) After his first warehouse on the south side of the 100 block of E. Parrish St. burned in the 1880s, EJ Parrish built a second warehouse that eventually extended most of the length of the block...

Ej Parrish Warehouse (first)

In 1879 EJ Parrish (the first man to auction tobacco in Durham) built a tobacco warehouse on the southeast corner of Mangum St. and the eponymous Parrish St. (Courtesy Durham County Library) No records exist of the exact location of the warehouse, but I do know that it was on the "western portion of the site", which would imply that the above view is from Mangum St. The Conestoga wagons were used to haul the tobacco to the warehouse for auction.

217 East Parrish Street - Clark And Sorrell / Elkins Motor Company

Built in 1923 for the Clark and Sorrell garage, the building was briefly another private garage before becoming home to the Elkins Motor Company, which enlarged the plant to the north and east, from 1942-1969.

Ne Corner Church And Parrish / 201-203 East Parrish Street / 202-204 North Church Street

(Courtesy Durham County Library) The northeast corner of North Church and East Parrish Sts. which had addresses of 201-203 East Parrish Street as well as 202-204 North Church Street, was the location of the Typewriter Exchange building. "New City Parking Lot Area, 01.17.63" (Courtesy The Herald-Sun)

111-113 North Church Street / Montaldo's

(Courtesy Durham County Library) 128 East Parrish St., the southwest corner of North Church St. and East Parrish St., housed a hardware store when this picture was taken in the late 1920s during a snow melt. The name on the glass says "Taylor and Ph(?)" (can't read the last name). The building received a fine pink facade covering during the late 1950s or early 1960s. It currently houses law offices.

108-110 East Parrish

108-110 East Parrish St. was likely a late 19th century structure, going by the embellishment present on this early 20th century picture. Much like the Parrish building to its west, 108 East Parrish St. received a 1920s transformation, likely at the time of the above picture. 108 West Parrish, 1920s. Below is one of the few views of the block face...

117-121 East Parrish

117-119-121 East Parrish Street was contstructed during the late 1910s-early 1920s. Looking northwest, 1924. 117-121 East Parrish is the lighter, 2-story building between Public Hardware and the May and Page corner building (Courtesy Duke Archives) In 1951, 117 East Parrish was home to the "Good Food Shoppe" is owned by Earl C. Winstead, a cafe man...

113-115 East Parrish: Public Hardware

Looking north at 113-115 East Parrish St., 1910 (Courtesy Durham County Library) There aren't many homegrown Durham businesses from the very early 20th century that you can still patronize today, but Public Hardware is one of them. It's first location was at 113-115 East Parrish St. Looking northwest, 1924. Public Hardware is located in the 3-story...