The main entrance to the Avila Retreat Center, 7.28.2019 (N. Levy) In 1957, a widowed schoolteacher named Lola Latta Terry and her son sold over forty acres west of the road to Roxboro to the Carmelite order of Catholic nuns, who appear to have begun building this facility soon thereafter. It remained in the possession of the Carmelites until 1980...

(08.30.2018, N. Levy) 910 Orient is one of several remaining early 20th-century two-story houses built by the nearby Pearl Cotton Mills for its workers. The exact date of construction is difficult to determine, as city directories from the turn of the century describe residences in the area as "near" the factory or simply "Pearl Mills" with a house...

(06.28.2002, from volunteer survey by Preservation Durham) Operating out of this small building just off Fayetteville Street from the late 1940s until at least the 1980s, the College Grill served up quick meals to several generations of students and neighborhood residents. The name as listed in advertisements and city directories from its first two...

Clipping of units nearing completion from The Durham Sun, 7.10.1971 (From a scrapbook collection, courtesy of Durham Housing Authority) Planned from the mid-1960s with the help of federal funding for both clearing existing structures and constructing public housing, the Liberty Street Apartments covered a site of roughly 9.25 acres just to the east...

Photo likely taken early in 1963 shows 207 Morehead Avenue in the right background, with the Lucky Strike Service Station in the distance and American Tobacco's Fowler Building at the left edge (From Durham Urban Renewal Records, Box 1. Courtesy of Durham County Library - North Carolina Collection, available online at DigitalNC.org) From the late...

Owned by William Larry Mitchell for most of the home's history until his death in 2015. Larry lived at 2106 Arrington with his life partner, Buford, until Buford's death in 2005. They undertook major renovations in the 1980s, including turning the existing garage into a home office space, adding a sunroom and carport, and building a deck. Larry and Buford maintained an award-winning garden along with two large fountains that they also added to the property.

Apparently built in the late 1950s on land owned by the Tilley family, these were offices at the front of a wholesale operation as the dairy industry consolidated - both in North Carolina and nationally. Sealtest was a brand of National Dairy Products Corporation - later known as Kraft Foods.

(11.22.2002, from volunteer survey by Preservation Durham) The first reference to this address in city directories - as 1106 First Avenue, as Driver Street north of Liberty was known until c.1960 - was in 1926, when the resident was a Frank J Mutter, listed as working for Edward J. Latta's roofing company. Residents changed multiple times in the...

Bonnie McCoy Gregory in hunting regalia with the western half of the duplex built for two of his sons in the background (c.1950, Courtesy of Marcia Gregory) Owners of the Rite-Way Laundry on Angier Avenue, Bonnie and Inez Gregory raised six sons at 1402 Holloway - just adjacent to this property at the corner of Holloway Street and Park Avenue...