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Edgemont, 07.17.69

208 S. Elm St., undated, likely 1980s

411 Walker St., 02.28.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Before being torn down around 1990, this was one of a string of five identical one-story, single-family mill houses built along Walker Street (the others at 409, 415, 417, and 419), each with a three bay gabled frame, shed porch in the front, and exterior shed in the rear. The decorative...

416 Walker St., 02.28.1989 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) Multiple surveys - including the one that produced this photo just prior to the building's demolition - describe this brick-faced building as a current or former grocery store. The 1960 edition of Hill's Durham City Directory lists a C. E. Flowers grocer at this address.

909 Dale St., 02.23.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Described in a 1989 National Park Service Historic American Buildings Survey report as the "largest home in Edgemont area," it was torn down shortly thereafter. The structure presently at this address dates to the early 1990s.

301 Sloan St., 02.28.1989 (Photo by Dwight Yarborough, Historic American Buildings Survey - online via Library of Congress) According to the 1980 survey done by Durham Tech's Historic Preservation Technology class, An Inventory of the Edgemont and East Durham Textile Mill Village (available online at archive.org): Queen Anne frame two story single...

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