Hillsborough Road

738 Rutherford St.

Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with Hillsborough Road, this home had been occupied by the family of Theodore and Hosia Lewis Carden for a few years before the big selloff of Erwin Mills company housing in 1945. Unique among the surrounding mill...

771 Ninth Street / 2001 Hillsborough Road

Hillsborough Road and Ninth St., looking west, ~1958 (Courtesy Barry Norman) The service station at 771 9th St. / 2001 Hillsborough Road was initially the Council Service Station, built during the early 1930s. The building became Moore's Texaco, and, by the late 1950s, the McAfee Service Station. It then had a stint as a drive-in shoe shop, and idea whose time has surely come again.

4810 Hillsborough Road

West Durham Baptist / Grey Stone Baptist Church

West Durham Baptist / Grey Stone Baptist, 1935. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Miller Garage

1970s (Courtesy Richard Wilson Miller) 1970s (Courtesy Richard Wilson Miller) 1970s (Courtesy Richard Wilson Miller) August 2011 (Photo by Gary Kueber)

Sealtest Building - 3533 Hillsborough Rd.

Apparently built in the late 1950s on land owned by the Tilley family, these were offices at the front of a wholesale operation as the dairy industry consolidated - both in North Carolina and nationally. Sealtest was a brand of National Dairy Products Corporation - later known as Kraft Foods.

Public Service / Ice Company - West Durham

Looking west from Crabtree St. (later Trent) and Hillsborough Rd., 1920s (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Pure Oil / Couch Oil Station - Hillsborough Road

Pure Oil station, 1955 (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) To my knowledge, one of the last two cottage-style Pure Oil stations left in Durham, along with the one at Alston and East Main Sts., is the one located near the junction of West Main St. with Hillsborough Road. Built by 1937, this station appears to always have been associated with a larger...

2625 Hillsborough Road

06.06.09 Ad in Duke Chronicle, October 3, 1969. Ad in Duke Chronicle, November 14, 1968. 1969 keg contest for Duke students. 1974 1974 1974 1978 ad Jim's lives on. View from Trent, December 24, 2014. As of 2014, this building was under renovation to house a new (second) location of "Cocoa Cinnamon," a café that started on the northeast corner of W...

Coca Cola Bottling Company Of Durham - Hillsborough Rd.