Franklin Street

Building One (cotton Mill) - Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.

Building One, looking southwest, 1950s. Building Two, Warehouse A+B, and Building One, 1901, moving from foreground to background (Courtesy Duke Archives) The history of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco (later American Tobacco) and the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. are inextricably mingled. In 1887, the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. originated in a...

1211 Franklin St.

Extensively altered one-story hip--roofed bungalow Wlth gabled attic dormer, built late 1910s. Now covered with aluminum siding, the house has replacement windows and a metal porch post. More than half of the full-facade recessed front porch has been enclosed. Extensively renovated again in 2008 by Habitat for Humanity. 2008

1209 Franklin St.

One-story, one-room deep house with triple-A roof and rear ell. Except for replacement concrete porch floor, loss of spandrels at porch posts, and removal of one of the original two front doors, the house was intact as of 1986, retaining its central corbelled chimney and decorative cut-work gable vents. Habitat for Humanity demolished the original...

1110 Franklin St.

1109 Franklin St.

1108 Franklin St.

1107 Franklin St.

1106 Franklin St.

1105 Franklin St.

1104 Franklin St.