Insurance Company

North Carolina Mutual Insurance Co. was established in 1898 as the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association by John Merrick, Dr. AM Moore, PW Dawkins, DT Watson, WP Pearson, EA Johnson, and Dr. James E Shepard. This coalition of men appears to have grown out of the Grand United Order of the True Reformers, a mutual-benefit society founded in...

From the National Register in italics below: The 1959 Durham City Directory lists the “GMAC Insurance Corporation” at 711 Rigsbee Avenue. The one-story, flat-roof brick office building of modest mid-century modern design is likely this office. The building is now adaptively reused as a bar known as "the bar." Red brick laid in running bond covers...

701 Vickers Avenue in the foreground, circa 1970. Building entrance (on west side) now faces a cut off Vickers Ave. following Durham Freeway construction. 701 Vickers was built between 1956-1958 for the Durham Life Insurance Company, which remained in the building at least through the 1960s. Early 1980s. Forest History Society building, 1984. Front...

06.07.08 (Photo by Gary Kueber) 03.15.2011 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Renovated in 2011 as a bar, named "Surf Club," with a large patio where the parking lot is in the above pictures. 10.1.13 - Parking lot converted into outdoor seating that is dog friendly. Many friendly free roaming dogs can be seen in this enclosed garden. Photo by Andrius...

219-225 Foster Street

128-130 is the taller (5 story) structure to the right of Bagwell Plumbing and Heating (132 ECH.) It served as the headquarters for the Southern Fire Insurance Company until they moved to West Durham in 1951. It then was absorbed into Belk-Leggett Department Store. In the early 1960s, the facade was covered. From Roney St., looking south, mid 1960s...

Looking west-northwest at the Blue Cross Blue Shield building, January 2008. The gap between the oak trees was the driveway entrance to Harwood Hall.