Apartments

01.12.12 (DC tax office) Identical to apartment building at 307 Watts St.

This home, hidden away on Hope Valley, was home to the Gibbs family who ran a dairy on the property, as well as an apartment complex and grocery store in the 1950s and 1960s.

DC Tax office, 01.12.12

Watts Hospital Staff Home. Large 2-story Colonial Revival-style house converted into a quadraplex apartment building. The hipped roof features paired hip roof dormers. 1-over-1 sash windows and German siding remain intact. The front porch is now enclosed, and original steps and entrance removed. Metal stairs and balconies added for the apartments...

1960 Durham City Directory (DCL) The southern half of these apartments were demolished ~2001 to make way for the Erwin Terrace development. The northern half appears to have been renovated and rebranded as "Poplar Manor."

This two-story, gable-roofed apartment building is twelve bays wide and double pile. On-line tax records date the building to 2006.

Frame Foursquare sheathed in shake shingles built between 1915 and 1919. An entrance porch on box posts is topped by a shingled balustrade. Another one-bay, hip-roofed porch on box posts is attached to the south side. Earliest owner was W. Marvin Newton, president of W.M. Newton & Co., clothiers on W. Main St. In the 1920s.

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in the middle of the block, and the commercial structures at the east end of the block.

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in...

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in the middle of the block, and the commercial structures at the east end of the block.