The northwest corner of the intersection of E. Main and Dillard streets transitioned from residential to a bus station to a vacant lot. Here is the corner as of 8/7/06, looking west from Dillard. I'll repeat the satellite view here: And a view of this corner around 1900. Looking west-northwest at the northwest corner of E. Main and Dillard Sts. The...

Looking northeast, late 1970s Even though these houses remained in a persistently downtrodden state over the last decade or so of their lives, there was something stately about them to me - as I would drive north or south on Buchanan Blvd., the freeway overpass always felt to me a bit like a gateway in and out of the West End, and these two houses - very upright and not fancily adorned - felt a bit like sentinels.

702 Holloway, late 1960s The unusual and unique houses at 701 and 702 Holloway, just to the east of the Durham Belt Line railroad tracks, were undoubtedly built by the same builder around the turn of the century. With intricate sawnwork (covered by vinyl siding now,) mansard roofs (including a mansard gable on 702 Holloway) and pedimented windows...

( Many thanks to Myers Sugg for making his files on Lakewood Park available to me, and to Marcus Latta, whose recollections extensively document the park.) Looking north from Chapel Hill Road, around 1910. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Durham Traction Company, which purchased the city's streetcar system in 1901...

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