Retail

01.12.12 (DC tax office) From the TP NR nomination: Reported by a fonner resident of 205 Albemarle (formerly Jones St.) to be the Tinzen family home, this plain but handsome Neo-Colonial house, built c. 1910, exhibits characteristics of two stories with a cross-gabled roof and side hall plan. Decoration of the frame house is restricted to box...

(Courtesy Preservation Durham) Per the Preservation Durham 2012 Pyne Award Nomination (in italics): Before 15-501 was a four-lane thoroughfare between Durham and Chapel; before the construction of I-40 through the Triangle; and before Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Barnes & Noble, and parking lots dominated the intersection of I-40 and 15-501, two artists...

After the elimination of the reservoir near the corner of Ninth Street and West Main Street, a new West Durham Post Office was constructed on the west side of Ninth Street in 1961. The old post office / company store was demolished that same year. Demolition of the West Durham Post Office. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) You can...

Tax Record photo of the Bragtown Trading Post. Demolition, August 2008 (Courtesy Barry Ragin) Site of 2804-2810 North Roxboro, 10.26.08.

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...

621-625 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.

Rogers Drugstore, 1968 --- Looking northeast from the corner of Parrish St. and N. Mangum St., 1890s (Courtesy Duke Archives) (Courtesy Duke Archives) After his first warehouse on the south side of the 100 block of E. Parrish St. burned in the 1880s, EJ Parrish built a second warehouse that eventually extended most of the length of the block...

339-341 W. Main was built in the 1920s as part of a row of structures replacing earlier frame establishments and industrial uses, such as Seeman's Carriage Works. The area between Corcoran and L & M rapidly took on a retail focus during this era, as the 'core' of downtown to the east focused more on the office and government sectors. (Courtesy Duke...

The northwest corner of Five Points contained a series of commerical structures, similar to Main St., that fronted on Five Points and turned the corner at Morris Street. A view from the 1920s, looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A 1920s view from a bit further west (starts on right with building near the left edge in the above...