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408 Poplar Street

414 Poplar Street

1118 West Chapel Hill Street - Reeves Gulf

Reeves Gulf Service, 1956 (Duke Chanticleer)

113-117 East Peabody

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The warehouse buildings along the 100 block of East Peabody Street (now Ramseur) were the warehouses for the Peabody Drug Company. A smaller building immediately to the east of the warehouse buildings appears to say "Durham County Progress". I'm not sure if this was a newspaper building or not. This view is looking...

120 South Mangum Street

120 South Mangum Street, 01.66 Durham's often-noted rough-around-the-edges reputation is nothing new - in the mid-to-late 19th century, the town was well known for its multiple saloons - the place where students from the University of North Carolina would come for some less-than-genteel entertainment (many of them would disembark from the train in...

201 North Roxboro Street - Northwestern Bank

=== Looking northwest, at the intersection of Roxboro and Parrish Sts. 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Roxboro St./Rd. developed as a residential street during the 1880s - one that did not extend further north than Holloway St. well into the 1890s. (Roxboro was originally called Second St., and Cleveland St. was the Person-Roxboro Rd.) Some...

112-114 North Church Street

116-118 South Mangum Street

116-118 S. Mangum, 01.66 Durham's often-noted rough-around-the-edges reputation is nothing new - in the mid-to-late 19th century, the town was well known for its multiple saloons - the place where students from the University of North Carolina would come for some less-than-genteel entertainment (many of them would disembark from the train in Durham...

206 East Parrish Street

206 E Parrish There's not a lot of info about the 200 block of East Parrish St., and a lack of early pictures. The only pictures I have are from the mid-late 1960s, in the waning days of these buildings. Looking east from Church and E. Parrish. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A view from the eastern end of the block, looking southwest, 1966....

208-210 East Parrish Street

208 E. Parrish 210 E. Parrish There's not a lot of info about the 200 block of East Parrish St., and a lack of early pictures. The only pictures I have are from the mid-late 1960s, in the waning days of these buildings. Looking east from Church and E. Parrish. (Courtesy Durham County Library) For those of you who remember the Record Bar chain (not...