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Seeman, Ernest

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415 Holloway Street / Humble Esso

The northwest corner of Oakwood and Holloway was vacant until the 1920s-1930s, at which point it became a gas station. It would become one of 4 gas stations on Holloway between Oakwood and Roxboro, an Esso station across the street from the Pure Oil station on the southeast corner of N. Dillard and Holloway
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218 North Dillard Street

Looking south from Holloway and N. Dillard, 1956. (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) The odd story, perhaps emblematic of the preservation ethic in Durham, is that Mrs. Sally G Brown, who lived in this house into the early 1950s ordered in her will that the house be demolished immediately upon her death. And it was, in 1952. The land was developed into a...
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212 North Dillard Street

212 North Dillard Street, 1950s ~1960, looking southeast. 1960ish, looking northeast. Looking southeast from Dillard St., 1966. 212 N. Dillard St., looking east, 2007.
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415 Liberty St.

Among the more royally messed up - and that's not the term I'd really like to use - streets in Durham is Liberty St. Once one of the nicer streets in Durham, Liberty is now essentially a one-way, three-lane off-ramp for the downtown Loop between Roxboro and Dillard (to the east of which it becomes two-way) that takes you through a depressing...
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409-411 Liberty St.

William Griswold on the front porch of 115 N. Dillard with 411 Liberty in the background (Courtesy Susan Herst) Among the more royally messed up - and that's not the term I'd really like to use - streets in Durham is Liberty St. Once one of the nicer streets in Durham, Liberty is now essentially a one-way, three-lane off-ramp for the downtown Loop...
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407 Liberty St.

Among the more royally messed up - and that's not the term I'd really like to use - streets in Durham is Liberty St. Once one of the nicer streets in Durham, Liberty is now essentially a one-way, three-lane off-ramp for the downtown Loop between Roxboro and Dillard (to the east of which it becomes two-way) that takes you through a depressing...
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405 Liberty St.

Among the more royally messed up - and that's not the term I'd really like to use - streets in Durham is Liberty St. Once one of the nicer streets in Durham, Liberty is now essentially a one-way, three-lane off-ramp for the downtown Loop between Roxboro and Dillard (to the east of which it becomes two-way) that takes you through a depressing...
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403 Liberty St.

Among the more royally messed up - and that's not the term I'd really like to use - streets in Durham is Liberty St. Once one of the nicer streets in Durham, Liberty is now essentially a one-way, three-lane off-ramp for the downtown Loop between Roxboro and Dillard (to the east of which it becomes two-way) that takes you through a depressing...
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