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401 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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Womack-Knight Electronics

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326 W Geer St.

326 West Geer, soon after construction in October 1949 326 West Geer housed Paschall Brothers Plumbing Company until the 1970s, when it housed Acme Plumbing Company. As of 2008, it houses Common Ground, a "Green Building Center". Looking northwest from West Geer, 07.12.08 (Photo by Gary Kueber) From the NR listing in italics below: The one-story...
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Hanes House

Looking west at the intersection of Trent Dr. and Erwin Rd., 1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The erstwhile dormitories clustered around the intersection of Trent Drive and Erwin Road were built between 1942 and 1951; for a period of time, this cluster was known as 'North Campus' - an appellation it appears to have shed at this point.
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Nursing Dormitory / Hanes Annex / John Hope Franklin Center

Looking west at the intersection of Trent Dr. and Erwin Rd., 1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The erstwhile dormitories clustered around the intersection of Trent Drive and Erwin Road were built between 1942 and 1951; for a period of time, this cluster was known as 'North Campus' - an appellation it appears to have shed at this point.
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Howard Johnson's - Chapel Hill Boulevard

1959 Howard Johnson's, Chapel Hill Boulevard, 1963
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311 West Pettigrew

311 West Pettigrew, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library) West Pettigrew Street, neé Railroad St., began as a residential street situated between the Blackwell Factory and the Duke Factory Looking west from the top of the Blackwell Factory, mid-1880s. Carr St. and an early Blackwell's Durham Tobacco building are in the foreground - the houses to...
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317 West Pettigrew

317 West Pettigrew, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library) West Pettigrew Street, neé Railroad St., began as a residential street situated between the Blackwell Factory and the Duke Factory Looking west from the top of the Blackwell Factory, mid-1880s. Carr St. and an early Blackwell's Durham Tobacco building are in the foreground - the houses to...
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307-309 West Pettigrew

(Courtesy Durham County Library) West Pettigrew Street, neé Railroad St., began as a residential street situated between the Blackwell Factory and the Duke Factory Looking west from the top of the Blackwell Factory, mid-1880s. Carr St. and an early Blackwell's Durham Tobacco building are in the foreground - the houses to the right face Pettigrew...
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328 Matthews St. / Red Cross St.

328 Matthews (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I...
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