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1205-1207 Angier Avenue- Pope Mattress Co.

The intersection of S. Alston Ave. and Angier Ave., looking northwest from ~the railroad tracks. The intersection of E. Main and S. Alston is in the background. Taken sometime in the 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun)

115 North Duke St. - Studebaker Building

---- Looking northwest at the later intersection of Duke and Main, 1890. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection The area around the Duke & Sons tobacco factory still had quite an agrarian feel to it into the 1890s; only the factory itself and Fairview, Washington Duke's mansion at the left edge of the picture, betray something...

762-764 Ninth

Looking southeast, 1940s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 762-764 Ninth St., the bookend to the two-story structures at the Perry St. end of the Ninth St. commercial strip, appears to have been built in the late 1920s. It initially housed Whitmore’s Bakery at 762 and Mack’s Food Shop at 764. Upstairs tenants appear to...

302 Morgan St.

The north side of the 400 block of Morgan (between Morris and Roney) and the north side of the 300 block of Morgan (between Roney and Foster) contained primarily small, commercial structures. Morgan St., even more so than Chapel Hill St., contained fewer retail establishments and more industrial/service-oriented businesses. Finally, a view of the block looking northeast, late 1960s.

215-217 East Chapel Hill Street

Piggly Wiggly - Roxboro And Club

Piggly Wiggly, looking northeast from North Roxboro, 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

516 Rigsbee Ave

The warehouse district area north of Morgan St., what is left of it, is a mid-20th century creation. The area near Rigsbee Ave. and Broadway St., in particular, was a higher-end late 19th and very early-20th century residential area. Looking north-northwest up Rigsbee Ave., 1924. The houses are clustered around Broadway and Rigsbee. (Courtesy Duke...

306-308 E Main - State / Russell/astor Theater

A 1930s Spanish Revival movie theater that many people remember as the first place they saw foreign films in Durham. Although long closed as a theater, the building survived into the 2000s, only to be torn down by the County Gov't.