Hardware Store

943-949 East Main St.

943-947 East Main, 05.07.07 943-949 East Main appears to have been built in the mid-1920s, replacing earlier frame stores that stood on the site. The tenants varied significantly over the course of the mid 20th century. 1928 945 Edgemont Mercantile Co. 947 Crown Cafe 949 Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company 1933 943 Edward D. Glenn, Grocer 945 Parker's Drug Store 947 William Bros. Grocers

Cary Lumber Company

The Cary Lumber Company was established in 1894 and moved to Durham ~1900, originally locating at 101-107 West Chapel Hill St. at Five Points. In 1913, the company moved to the 'edge of town' near Milton Avenue and the railroad tracks to "get out of the congested area." The company built a sizable complex of buildings, including a mill and large...

Old Durham Laundry

--- (Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings along the west side of the 200 block of North Church St. are a very-well preserved block of early 20th century structures. The Hicks building, on the northwest corner of North Church and East Parrish, and its immediate 3 neighbors to the north were constructed around 1910. 209-211 North Church, at the...

717 West Chapel Hill Street

As the West End developed along West Chapel Hill St., two commercial areas developed - one of the two was located at Vickers Avenue and West Chapel Hill St., the intersection between the main street of the West End and the main street of Morehead Hill. A set of early masonry structures was built here around 1910, probably replacing earlier frame...

2104 Angier Avenue

2104 Angier, partly visible with "_ardware Co." on the facade. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 2104 Angier Avenue appears to have been built in the mid-1930s and was first used by Andrews Market. By 1940, the establishment was known as the East Durham Market. By the early 1950s, it was closed, and Andrews Market was open at 2102 Angier, next door.

353 West Main Street

The site of 353 West Main St. was (along with the entire south 'side' of Five Points) part of Seeman's Carriage Works through the 1890s-1910s. Per the 1895 Handbook of Durham: "This business is conducted by Mr. Jno. F. Seeman, and is not incorporated. The output of this enterprise consists of hand-made vehicles of every description, of which an attractive supply is constantly on display in their showroom at 'Five Points' on Main Street."

740-742 Ninth

740 Ninth St., 08.29.63 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 740 Ninth was the location of John Dailey's grocery store by 1926; by 1935 it is noted as Calvin Dailey's grocery store. By the early 1940s, Dailey had moved southward to 736-738 Ninth, and Louis Bonardi had moved his fruit and produce store to Dailey's former location at 740 Ninth.

401 East Chapel Hill St. / Rue Cler

The area of East Chapel Hill St. and Rigsbee Avenue was primarily filled with residential and small frame structures up until the early 1920s, when masonry commercial structure supplanted the earlier uses. 400 Block of East Chapel Hill St., looking east from Rigsbee Ave., 1900. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Wyatt Dixon...

Durham Ice Cream Company

(Courtesy University of North Carolina) (Courtesy Duke Archives) The Durham Ice Cream Company operated from the northwest corner of Main and Duke streets from the early 1920s to until ? - the 1950s. Sometime after this, the building became home to Brunson's. Brunson's Inc. Brunsons was an appliance/TV dealership which had moved from Chapel Hill...