03.16.08 This house was bought by an LLC ("Bull City Renovations") in 2007 for $40K - they commenced with a fairly unfortunate (from the exterior) renovation, removing the original front porch posts and detailing (hard to see in the tax photo, but there was fine sawtooth moulding all along the porch surround,) as well as the original windows - with...

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

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.

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

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...

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"...