Loan Company

213-215 North Mangum Street

213-215 N. Mangum, December 1963 (Courtesy Duke Archives) The First Baptist Church was the first church in Durham. The congregation formed in 1845 as the Rose of Sharon Baptist church, according to Boyd's history of Durham, "in the Piney Grove schoolhouse, 1 mile south of West Durham." In 1850, with population growing near "Durhamville" and...

112-114 North Church Street

109 South Mangum Street

109 South Mangum, 01.66 Below, looking north from the tracks on Mangum St., you can see the mix of brick structures replacing the earlier wood, frame structures. The Italianiate window style (curved at the top) on the brick building would be a repeated architectural element in this block. This picture predates the construction of the Citizens' Bank...

205-207 East Main Street

205-207 E. Main Looking northeast from Church St. and East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Commercial development of the north side of the 200 block of East Main St. proceeded eastward from the commercial core. The western half of the block was developed by commercial structures by the 1890s, two of which are visible above. This photo...

120 East Main

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

107-109 East Chapel Hill Street

107-109 East Chapel Hill Street - visible above as the single story structure between the two two-story structures with two large pyramidal skylights. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Notice the central, arched first floor entryway with flanking arched windows. It's possible, with the size of the front entryway, wide enough to acommodate a carriage. 100...

112-116 East Main

Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. 112-116 East Main is the three-story structure mid-block (Courtesy Duke Archives) The 100 block of East Main St. was, along with 100 West Main St., the earliest retail focus in Durham. Generally, in the development of Durham, early frame structures were supplanted by...

Sw Corner Mangum And Parrish (109-119 N Mangum)

The building on the southwest corner of N. Mangum and W. Parrish was likely built during the 1910s, and contained a number of commercial storefronts on the N. Mangum St. side of the building. Below, the view from W. Parrish St., looking east, 1940s.

Holland Furniture / Nancy Grocery

The building at the southeast corner of Parrish St. and Corcoran St. was one of a seeming endless series of homes for the Holland Bros. Furniture Company prior to 1914. This shot from 1905 shows their painted sign below the cornice line, looking northeast from the newly-built Trust Building. When a huge fire destroyed the entire 100 block of West...