Retail

400 East Pettigrew

(Courtesy The Herald Sun) 400 East Pettigrew appears to have been built around 1939-1940 as a two-bay retail space. The building housed a series of tenants over the course of ~40 years, beginning with the Dixie Cab Co., followed by the Congo Restaurant through the 1940s. By the 1950s, the building housed Best Seafood/Lee's Seafood and the Silver Drop Restaurant.

Durham Laundry / Morgan Imports / Pop's

301 East Chapel Hill Street

WC Lyon Company, late 1910s-early 1920s (Courtesy Robby Delius) Ever wonder why Corcoran St. stopped at East Chapel Hill St. until the 2006-2007 link with Foster St., and you'd have to make a jog around the corner that 301 East Chapel Hill sits on to continue on Foster St.? Because Willie Mangum's farm was in the way when the streets were laid out...

347-351 West Main Street

347-351 West Main is part of a row of early 1920s-era row buildings along the south side of Five Points that replaced earlier industrial buildings and frame commercial structures. In 1923, National Dollar Store was the tenant at 347, Noell Brothers Hardware at 349, and Dixie Clothing Company at 351. The earliest view I could find of the whole row...