Paint Store

1960s (Durham County Library) Demolished for the Fayetteville Road connection to North Elizabeth ~1970

The engaged front porch with arched bays set on Craftsman posts lends this house a degree of style. Owner H. Ward Montague operated a butcher shop in a building behind the house in the 1920's.

04.19.09 From the NR listing, in italics below: Riley's Paint Warehouse, a small one-story concrete-block building at 732 Washington Street, was built about 1950 to the rear of Scott and Roberts Dry Cleaning Plant, Office and Store. It first appears in the 1950-1951 City Directory. The concrete-block building has a west façade veneer of red...

In 2011, the Durham Herald-Sun reported that chef Matt Kelly of the Vin Rouge restaurant on Hillsborough Road planned to purchase the building and renovate it as a tapas restaurant, which would be called "Mateo." As of early 2012, the building is under renovation, and the mid-century glass block in the upper windows has been replaced by 1 over 1...

219-225 Foster Street

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. The 300 block was primarily home to the DC May company, which sold paint and wallpaper. I think this building was really interesting, with its metal pitched roof above/behind the one-story brick facade.

The southeast corner of N. Mangum and East Chapel Hill contained several two- and three-story commercial structures, all built in the late 1910s-early 1920s The southeast corner is to the right in this photo, looking northeast from N. Manguma and East Chapel Hill, 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The view north on North Mangum, 1940 - the structures...

701-703 East Main. These structures were all demolished by the city in the late 1960s, using urban renewal funds. Elizabeth St., as noted, was re-routed to the east to connect with the re-routed Fayetteville St. I believe that this was playground space for the public housing complexes to the north and west (Liberty St. apartments and Oldham Towers). By the late 90s, it was empty green space.