Perry Street

---- Aerial showing the mill village houses north of Perry St., between Broad and 8th (Iredell), 1940s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Mill houses associated with the Erwin Cotton Mills were constructed in a centrifugal pattern around the mill from the 1890s-1910s. I've profiled those extending west from the mill on 13th, 14th, and 15th...

One-time West Durham branch for the Fidelity Bank, headquartered in downtown Durham, this Rose and Rose designed neoclassical structure became a Wachovia branch when Wachovia absorbed Fidelity in 1956, and, after the construction of a new Wachovia branch across the street, long-time home to Bruegger's Bagels.

1916-1920 Perry were built in the late 1920s, extending the strip of older commercial buildings at the corner of 9th and Perry eastward. The 1914 Perry building initially housed the West Durham Electric Shoe shop. 1918 initially housed Hawley's barber shop. By the 1940s, 1914 housed Cole and Crumpacker General Contractors, and 1916-18 housed Check...

1920 Perry Street may have been the earliest non-mill-related masonry commercial structure built in West Durham, constructed prior to 1907. By the 1920s, the building housed the Andrews Furniture Store., and by the 1930s, the upstairs, accessed through a stair on the left side of the building, housed the United Textile Workers (AFL Local 257), and...

700-702 Ninth Street was among the earliest commercial masonry structures built in West Durham, located at the corner of Hillsboro (later Perry) and Ninth, where the streetcar turned from Ninth Street towards Broad. It was built between 1907 and 1913. In 1926, it housed Brewers Drug Store in 700 and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (the A...

Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian, 1924 The Blacknall family, both Richard, Jr., who, with his father, Dr. Richard Blacknall, had organized Blacknall's Drugstore and his brother James, who was the first sheriff of Durham County, started the Presbyterian congregation in West Durham in 1892 as a mission, based from First Presbyterian downtown. The...