Miles Restaurant, looking southwest from Roxboro Road, ~1940 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The 2900 block of Roxboro Road and Miles Restaurant, looking southwest from Roxboro Road, ~1940. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Miles Restaurant advertisement, 1950 The building at 2929 North...

1950s 11.17.11 (Courtesy Jackie Bayne Knight)

1950s

Carver House, facing east, 05.22.57 Carver House, facing north, 05.22.57 The Carver house burned, and was destroyed in 1968. The three-car garage to the north of the house survived, and remains standing as of 2011

Aside from the previously featured Nancy Grocery and 119-121 N Mangum (the two ends of the block) the south side of the 100 block of W. Parrish St. seems to have been rarely photographed. The Parrish St. side of the block extending through to W. Main St. was also badly damaged in the fire of 1914. Looking west, 1914; the south side of the street is...

The "Children's Museum" moved north from its previous home in the Hester House on Georgia Avenue in Watts-Hillandale in 1961 and was rechristened "The Museum of Life and Science."

The William Guthrie house at 401 E. Main, looking north from E. Main ~1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The William Guthrie house was torn down in the late 1920s / early 1930s for a filling station: Nate Johnson's Gulf. Looking northeast, 1950s. (Courtesy St. Philip's Archives) The northeast corner of N. Queen and E. Main, location of the William...

04.26.08 (Below in italics is from the 2003 Lakewood Park National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Broadway and Ward Grocery Store. One-story brick, flat-roofed commercial building with a parapet roof with terra cotta coping, walls of running bond veneer, and a glass storefront with metal door and window trim. Small...

1107 West Main, 03.16.08 (G. Kueber) 11.11.2019 (G. Kueber)

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