Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

Longtime home to the City Sandwich Shop, 124 East Main had a major facade change in 1947

Like buildings to its east and west near Five Points, 326-328 W Main / 116-118 E Chapel Hill extended through the not-very-deep triangular block to have facades on both streets. The Raylass 5 and dime store was a tenant by the early 1920s. By the late 1920s, United Dollar Stores had taken occupancy of both 326-328 and 322-324. United Dollar Stores...

Belk-Hudson, later Hudson-Belk, and, still later, Belk-Leggett was one of the (if not the) first chain stores to enter Durham. A partnership between the Belk company, which had started in Monroe, NC in 1888, and the Hudson brothers of Anson County, NC, Durham's store opened in 1919, 4 years after Belk's first incursion into the Piedmont with the...

407 Holloway, 1963. The north side of the 400 block of Holloway St. was residential, like most of Holloway St., likely constructed during the 1910s. Below is an aerial shot of the intersection of N. Queen and Holloway Sts., 1959 The houses on the north side are tough to make out, as they were on the edge of the sheet. All but one of these houses...

317 Holloway, 1966. As mentioned previously, the area east of downtown/Cleveland Holloway developed during the 1870s-1880s, although Holloway itself developed somewhat later. There was a tobacco "leaf house" (the Umstead Tobacco Prizery) located on the northeast corner of Roxboro and Holloway during the 1890s 1891. The area north of this - the...

315 Holloway, 1963. As mentioned previously, the area east of downtown / Cleveland Holloway developed during the 1870s-1880s, although Holloway itself developed somewhat later. There was a tobacco "leaf house" (the Umstead Tobacco Prizery) located on the northeast corner of Roxboro and Holloway during the 1890s 1891. The area north of this - the...