326 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...

324 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...

320 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...

Looking southeast from West Chapel Hill St., past Temple Baptist, towards the southeast corner of Shepherd and West Chapel Hill Sts. - likely 1950s. (Herald-Sun) As the West End developed along West Chapel Hill St., two commercial areas developed - one of the two was located at Vickers Avenue and West Chapel Hill St., the intersection between the...

Empty West Side Pharmacy and adjacent commercial row buildings, looking southeast towards the corner of Vickers and West Chapel Hill St., November 1966. Only a small portion of 707-711 is visible to the right (with the Art Deco brick pilasters) (Courtesy Milo Pyne) As the West End developed along West Chapel Hill St., two commercial areas developed...

As the West End developed along West Chapel Hill St., two commercial areas developed - one of the two was located at Vickers Avenue and West Chapel Hill St., the intersection between the main street of the West End and the main street of Morehead Hill. A set of early masonry structures was built here around 1910, probably replacing earlier frame...

511 Jackson (left) - Feb. 1982 2001 09.04.11

February 1982 Converted to a real estate office in the 1980s by Eugene Brown (Distinctive Properties) 09.04.11

09.04.11 Per the Durham Historic Inventory Edgar J. Whitaker, a foreman at Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco Company, built the house at 614 Shepherd in the early 1910s. [Note: Blackwell's had been bought and eventually absorbed by American Tobacco in the 1890s, and American broken up by 1911, so he was either foreman at another Co. or the house was...

09.04.11 Adapted from the Durham Historic Inventory: The sawnwork trim that appears all across the elevations of this one-story house indicates a construction date around the turn of the 20th century. Originally, this house was situated at 901 Vickers Avenue. When James Edward Stagg gave that property to his daughter as a wedding gift, this house...