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1003 Carroll Street / Shaw Street

12.03.11
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1007 Carroll Street / Shaw Street

12.03.11
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Greene, Paul

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Cooper Garage - Liggett And Myers

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Cooper Shop - Liggett And Myers

A "cooper" is an archaic term for someone who makes barrels, the preferred storage/transport method for tobacco in the late 19th/early 20th century. That L&M would have a dedicated building just for the manufacture of barrels gives you a sense of the volume of tobacco being produced.
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Flowers Building - Liggett And Myers

The Flowers Building is named for William Washington Flowers, who joined L&M in 1911 and became its chairman in 1939. 1944, on the left, Flowers in the foreground (with the "Chesterfields Satisfy" bridge) and the Cooper Building in the background.
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2001 Preservation Home Tour - "Living it Up Downtown"

From the HPSD tour booklet: In the years following World War II, America's love affair with the private automobile came into full flower. By 1960, there were finally enough cars so that nearly everybody had access to one. The roads were wide open; we had conquered time and distance. In the heady drunkenness of our new love, our hands and arms grew...
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2410 West Club Blvd.

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1999 Preservation Durham Home Tour: Watts-Hillandale

Watts Hospital-Hillandale is a treasure trove of early twentieth-century American residential architecture. Just as the revolution in transportation, the streetcar, made Watts-Hospital-Hillandale possible, modern conveniences such as central heating, electric appliances, and indoor plumbing had a dramatic impact on home design. The new architecture...
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1998 Preservation Durham Home Tour: Fayetteville Street, Forest Hills

The 1998 Preservation Durham Home tour was divided between two neighborhoods - College View/Stokesdale and Forest Hills. The College View / Stokesdale Section, described as the "Fayetteville Street Neighborhood" in the tour booklet: The Fayetteville Street neighborhood was once one of the most popular neighborhoods in Southeast Durham, the home of...
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