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504 N Roxboro

Owner: James Marvin Bradford Built: circa 1910 Timing is everything. Unfortunately, my timing failed this test - I had intended to shoot pictures of these houses last weekend. I apologize for the poor quality of this picture - but you never know how quickly or slowly the Durham Demolition... uh, Department of Housing and Community development will...
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Durham Water Company - Huckleberry Hill Reservoir

Huckleberry Hill Reservoir ---- Pumping Station, 1905. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection - Scanned by Digital Durham) Increasing demand for water in the city of Durham during the 1870s and 1880s prompted the city to enter into a contract with A.H. Howland of Boston to establish a water infrastructure/pumping system sufficient to...
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Mangum 506

--- Looking northeast, 1948 The northeast corner of North Mangum and Wyatt Streets was residential until ~1930; the last house at 502 N. Mangum was inhabited in 1923 by HD O'Briant. By 1934, a filling/service station had taken its place on the corner, known as the Mangum-Wyatt Service Station. (It is frequently abbreviated "Man-Wy Service Station"...
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Bennehan, Richard

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Durham Female Institute / Baptist Female Seminary

1898 Sanborn Map
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Farley Warehouse

(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The louvered sides of the Garrard warehouses, visible along Fuller Street (between the Imperial Tobacco building in the foreground and Durham High in the background.)
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919 East Main

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in the middle of the block, and the commercial structures at the east end of the block.
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923 East Main St.

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in...
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927 East Main

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in the middle of the block, and the commercial structures at the east end of the block.
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Phillips 66 / Broad Street Diner / Mad Hatter

---- Bird's Eye view looking west the Erwin Field at Broad and West Main Streets, ~1940. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) One of the early community assets created by the Erwin Cotton Mills and its principal, William Erwin, was the Erwin field, which hosted the Erwin Auditorium baseball team. Looking east from 8th...
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