717 Burch Avenue, 1957, with part of 719 Burch visible to its left. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Looking southeast, 1948. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) There aren't many pictures of the 600 and 700 blocks of Burch Avenue to go by, but the above aerial shot, with Burch the longest street running diagonally from upper left to lower right...

511 Fayetteville - likely late 1960s (demolition has already occurred around the structure.) (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The African-American Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church was established near East...

507 Fayetteville, 1963. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 1937 Sanborn Map of the Intersection of Fayetteville St. and East Pettigrew. (Copyright Sanborn Map Company) The African-American Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church was established near East Pettigrew and Fayetteville Sts. in the 1880s. Aside from a consistent...

Looking northwest at the later intersection of Duke and Main, 1890. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection The area around the Duke & Sons tobacco factory still had quite an agrarian feel to it into the 1890s; only the factory itself and Fairview, Washington Duke's mansion at the left edge of the picture, betray something more...

---- Looking northwest at the later intersection of Duke and Main, 1890. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection The area around the Duke & Sons tobacco factory still had quite an agrarian feel to it into the 1890s; only the factory itself and Fairview, Washington Duke's mansion at the left edge of the picture, betray something...

Built on the site of an earlier church known as Good Hope Baptist, the opening of this structure in fall 1936 was accompanied by the congregation's name change to Mount Zion Baptist. James E. Shepard, President of nearby North Carolina College (later NCCU), spoke at the inaugural service. Mount Zion sold the building to Solid Rock Full Gospel...

108 South Queen St., early 1950s.

One of Durham's most influential citizens, Julian Shakespeare Carr, a member of a successful Chapel Hill mercantile family built his estate on the southeast corner of East Main St. and South Dillard Street in 1870. He called it 'Waverly Honor'. (Courtesy Durham County Library) J.S. Carr would become involved in almost every venture that made Durham...

The buildings on the northeast corner of East Main St. and North Mangum St. were constructed sometime prior to 1891 and housed a variety of commercial establishments, the first being the T.J. Lambe's men's clothing store. Looking northeast from Mangum and Main, 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) By 1937, the Harvey Cafeteria was located in the...