Reed Building ------------- The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties...

Looking south on Fayetteville St. from the middle of the 600 block, 1922. (S.) Elm St. is the intersection ahead and the transition to the 700 block. The east side of the 600 block would include the building on the left. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.) The east side of the 600 block of Fayetteville St...

Mechanics and Farmers bank branch, to the right. Looking south on Fayetteville St. from the middle of the 600 block, 1922. (S.) Elm St. is the intersection ahead and the transition to the 700 block. The east side of the 600 block would include the building on the left. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.)...

Looking south on Fayetteville St. from the middle of the 600 block, 1922. (S.) Elm St. is the intersection ahead and the transition to the 700 block. The east side of the 600 block would include the building on the left. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.) The east side of the 600 block of Fayetteville St. has been a difficult area to document - the photographic record is circumstantial and/or incomplete.

1963 urban renewal appraisal photo of 603 Fayetteville. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking south on Fayetteville St. from the middle of the 600 block, 1922. (S.) Elm St. is the intersection ahead and the transition to the 700 block. The east side of the 600 block would include the building on the left. (Courtesy...

1105 West Chapel Hill St., 09.25.11

1001 West Chapel Hill - the new location of the Rolling Pin Bake Shop circa 1968 after their previous location was urban renewalized. (Photo courtesy Durham County Library) The West End looking southwest from West Chapel Hill and Buchanan, 1978 (Durham Architectural Inventory) The primary neighborhood business district of West End at Buchanan Blvd...

09.25.11 The West End looking southwest from West Chapel Hill and Buchanan, 1978 The primary neighborhood business district of West End at Buchanan Blvd. and West Chapel Hill St. developed early in the 20th century. Early wood-framed buildings were replaced with brick structures during the 1920s. As with other neighborhood commercial districts such...