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518-520 East Pettigrew

518 East Pettigrew, ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 518 1/2 East Pettigrew, ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 520 - 520 1/2 East Pettigrew ~ 1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Built in the late 1920s, 518-522 East Pettigrew housed a variety of...

705-707 North Mangum Street

Labor Temple, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) In April 1941, the heirs of Mary A. Green - longtime resident of a home at this address who had bought the land from A. M. Rigsbee in the 1880s - sold this parcel to trustees of the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union, Local 585. By the next year, along with more than two dozen other 'locals' affiliated through...

512-516 East Pettigrew

Looking southwest, ~1970. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking east down the south side of East Pettigrew St., ~1970. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Durham Knitting Mill / Royal Knights Of King David / 702-704 Fayetteville

Durham's first African American owned and operated textile operation, visited and praised by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, then home to the Royal Knights of King David fraternal order.

107 N. Church St.

05.13.07 Angle view, 05.13.07 1925: Excelsior Barber Shop (1st), Science Seekers Club (!) (2nd) 1935: Lucky Strike Billard Parlor (1st), Odell Green, watchmaker (2nd.) 1947: Adcock's Cafe 09.10.11

602 Saint Joseph St.

609 1/2 - 611 Fayetteville Street

Looking south on Fayetteville St. from the middle of the 600 block, 1922. (S.) Elm St. is the intersection ahead and the transition to the 700 block. The east side of the 600 block would include the building on the left. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.) The east side of the 600 block of Fayetteville St...

405 East Chapel Hill

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The 400 block of East Chapel Hill Street was primarily transformed from a residential into a commercial street in the 1920s. The above picture shows 401, 405, 407, and 415 had been built by 1924. Looking east down East Chapel Hill, 1927 (Courtesy Durham County Library) By the 1940s, the block was built out.

120 East Main

Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

2009 Chapel Hill Road

04.26.08 Constructed by Fred Roll around 1920, the building served as a grocery store and pool hall - primarily catering to customers of Lakewood Park. Per the Historic Inventory, the last grocery operator was Marvin Mangum. The upstairs was an apartment - one of Fred Roll's daughters lived in the apartment for several years.