1930s. T.H. Lawrence was the contractor who built this two-story brick Foursquare in 1925 for banker TB Pierce. Many details are similar to 310 Watts Street. A hipped roof carries a shingled dormer with multi-paned windows; other nine-over-one windows are paired or grouped in threes. Large paired triangular brackets decorate the wide eaves. A full...

Per the Durham County Library: House of Leonidas & Lucy Bacon James. Built 1907-8. House was at 1802 Chapel Hill Rd. Leonidas James was president of James Lumber Co. (1902). His office was in the Wright Building on W. Main St. The lumber mill was in the Redwood Community.

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06.11.11 Per the Durham County Inventory: Carpenter Paul Pickett constructed a late Triple-A cottage in 1923, giving it sidelights that flank the entry door, rear chimneys, and a Craftsman-style shed porch with box columns on brick piers that resemble those of bungalows in the vicinity. A son, Buck, enlarged the dwelling in 1938, 1948, and 1971...

(Courtesy Durham County Library) The typical Gulf station of the 1930s, 814 West Main, the northeast corner of West Main and North Gregson, is only partially visible above, obscured by the awning at 900 West Main Street. A blurry, but more complete view is below, from 1948, looking northwest. 814 West Main St., 1948 (Courtesy Duke RBMC, Wyatt Dixon...

The southwest corner of South Duke and West Main Streets was the location chosen for the Southern Conservatory of Music was built in 1898 - in large part, if not entirely due to the residence of the school's primary patron across the street. Per the great-granddaughter of the founder, Gilmore Ward Bryant, Washington Duke invited 'GW' to Durham to...

09.18.11 Home of the "Down Under Pub" from 199? until 2010, the bar reopened in 2011 as "The Roxy."

The building at 806 West Main St. was a Plymouth dealership in 1948. Gary Bass opened a seafood restaurant in the former dealership in 1983; one of a new wave of restaurants that opened during Durham's 'first resurgence' in the mid-1980s. As of 2011, it was one of the few of the originals still around. 09.18.11 (G. Kueber) That was not to last...