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605 East Main Street - Womble Pharmacy

605 East Main, the Womble Pharmacy, looking northeast. Looking north on South Elizabeth, prior to the urban renewal demolition of the structures on the north side of East Main., ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library) These structures were all demolished by the city in the late 1960s, using urban renewal funds. Elizabeth St., as noted, was re-routed...
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Gaston Roberts House

Per the County Historic Inventory: According to Ervin Roberts, his grandfather, Gaston Roberts, built this extraordinary I-house from 1860-1870, a long construction period no doubt caused by the Civil War. The house is one of Durham County’s best Federal-Greek Revival transitional style dwellings and also includes several Georgian-style decorative...
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221 South Guthrie

Pictured in photo: Clara Burcham, Tom Burcham, Charlie Burcham, Mrs. Burcham, Francis Burcham Likely 1910s (Courtesy Billie Boyd) Located in the 'triangle' of land between Proctor Place (now Harvard Avenue) and Ashe Street, facing South Guthrie Street
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Tobacco Prizeries - West Main Street - 1880s

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Immaculate Conception (first)

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church was established in its current location on Chapel Hill Street in 1905, on land donated by William T. O'Brien, the mechanic who made the Bonsack cigarette machine work for J.B. Duke, thereby creating the competitive advantage that allowed the astronomical growth of the compnay. A church school was also estabished in 1909. The congregation continued to used these structures throughout the early part of the 20th century.
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104 East Pettigrew Street

104 East Pettigrew, ~1930 104 East Pettigrew, ~1930 104 East Pettigrew, ~1930
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Nancy Jones House

Per the Town of Cary: Built around 1803, the Nancy Jones House is a fine example of vernacular Federal architecture and is the oldest house in Cary. The house has its original brick foundation and chimneys, but its weatherboarding has been replaced by siding. There is a double front portico topped by a broken pediment gable; both stories are...
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Murphy / Murphey School

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Sarah Cole House / Galveston Post Office

Named for a post office once housed within its walls, Galveston grew in several stages according to the needs of its occupants. A two-story, antebellum, side-gable I-house with restrained Greek Revival detailing was enlarged in the late nineteenth century when a one-story gable-roofed ell was constructed for the post office and joined to the main...
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D.B. Cameron Lumber Company- West Main Street

Per the 1953 Centennial edition: " The Lumber Business of D.B. Cameron in 1900 was located on Main Street, near Five Points, about the site where the present Rose's store is located [actually a bit further west - GK]. Cameron is standing at the left and next to him is a Mr. Laubacher, one of his employees. The two other men are not identified; one...
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