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901 Jackson St.

616 Arnette Ave.

618 Shepherd St.

616 Shepherd St.

504 South Buchanan Blvd. / Milton Ave. - Henry G. Whitfield House

The first known resident is Henry G. Whitfield (police) in 1907.

502 South Buchanan Blvd. / Milton Ave. - Numa A. West House

The earliest known resident is Numa A. West (carpenter) in 1907. He lived there with Miss Leila S. West, Miss Lello West, Miss N. Roberta West, and Miss Eleanor Wheeler.

416 S. Buchanan Blvd. (milton Ave.) / 802 Burch Ave. - James J. Lawson House

James J. Lawson, a grocer, is listed at this address as early as 1902 with his wife, Mrs. Ada Lawson.

930 West Markham Ave.

03.16.08 03.16.08 This house was demolished and replaced with a contemporary modern structure. 12.07.11 It's fine - out of context, I'd say it's a pleasant-enough contemporary modern structure, and fairly 'of-its-time,' with architects' current go-to motif—the plethora of jaunty roof angles. But I'm being unfair - I'd like the structure if it had...

609 Foster Street

06.07.08 609 Foster Street was built in 1938 as a tobacco prizery and warehouse for the RJ Reynolds Company. Presumably, given the size of the Durham auction market, Reynolds wanted a presence convenient to the auction warehouses to press and store tobacco for shipping to their factories. 1937 plat. Note the reference to the "Big Bull Warehouse"...

709-715 Washington Street

06.07.08 UPDATE 10.10.13: Napa/Walker Auto parts vacated 709 Washington St. in November 2012 (moved to 802 E. Geer in a new building) and the owner thereafter listed the property for sale. The property sold to a private developer in May 2013 for at least $450,000. There are many rumors swirling around the future use of this property given its sales...