The 900 block of Fayetteville St., by the 1940s, began the southern transition to the more residential portion of the Hayti neighborhood. 905 Fayetteville was a converted residence that housed Jones Shoe Shop through much of the mid 20th Century. 905 Fayetteville, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) These structures...

The 900 block of Fayetteville St., by the 1940s, began the southern transition to the more residential portion of the Hayti neighborhood. The southeast corner of Glenn St. and Fayetteville St. had become Star Taxi by 1938, and Parham's Gulf Service Station by the 1940s. (Carolina Gulf by the early 1950s, Southside Service Station (a Shell Station) by the mid 1950s. 901 Fayetteville, 1962.

2707 Hillsborough Road

802 Cleveland Street, 1980 01.12.13

703 Cleveland, 1980 The careful preservation of this house and its siting on a manicured lot filled with mature trees and flowering shrubbery renders it one of the most distinctive houses on Cleveland Street. This two-story single-pile house with triple-A roofline and one-story rear wings was constructed in the 1890s by R. T. Howerton. Howerton...

Looking north-northeast, 1905. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The building on the northeast corner of East Main St. and Church St. was built between 1898 and 1905. While it isn't clear if the building was built to house the local telephone exchange, by 1905, it contained the Herndon drugstore on the ground floor and the telephone exchange on the...

North Roxboro Road, 1970s (Courtesy Durham County Library)

Lucky Strike Service Station, 1966 (the back of the tobacco warehouses at 207 Morehead are visible at right) First listed in city directories in 1932, this filling and service station operated for roughly 35 years where Blackwell Street ended at Morehead Avenue, across from the southeastern corner of the American Tobacco factory complex. The first...

309 South. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) South Street, which still exists south of Lakewood Avenue, once continued north to (or started at, depending on your perspective) Vivian St., running between Blackwell St. and South Mangum (McMannen) St. Near Vivian St., South St. once separated the city light and power/ice...

Between Banks Place and Fowler Ave. was another residential block of Fayetteville St., occupied by 909, 911, and 1003 Fayetteville. 911 Fayetteville, the WA Meeks House, 1922 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, scanned by Digital Durham.) 911 Fayetteville, 1962 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) These...