1009 West Chapel Hill Street - Booth Drug, 1953 From the 11/22/11 Herald-Sun: Inside the small, shiny kitchen at Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center, Doretha Hamidullah lops red and green pepper strips, preparing them for the vegetarian chili warming in a large pot under the stove’s blue flames. Hamidullah is one of about 10 women at the mosque who arrive...

410 Morehead Ave, on the corner of Morehead and Duke, taken from the southwest corner looking northeast. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Prior to the Freeway, Morehead ran immediately south of the multi-story Fowler Building at the American Tobacco complex.

703 South Duke St.

701 South Duke St.

Rogers Drugstore, 1968 --- Looking northeast from the corner of Parrish St. and N. Mangum St., 1890s (Courtesy Duke Archives) (Courtesy Duke Archives) After his first warehouse on the south side of the 100 block of E. Parrish St. burned in the 1880s, EJ Parrish built a second warehouse that eventually extended most of the length of the block...

St. William's School, 1953 A view of the north side of the 400 block of West Chapel Hill St. shows several large houses. Looking northwest from near the intersection of West Chapel Hill St. and Pettigrew, 1910s-1920s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Notice that 'The Terrace', BN Duke's first house, is now on that side of the street, just beyond that is...

A&P grocery on the corner of West Chapel Hill St. and Duke St., looking northeast, 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) A view of the north side of the 400 block of West Chapel Hill St., 1910s, gives an indication of the wealth residing in the proximate portion of the West End during the late 19th and early 20th century.

North Carolina Mutual Insurance Co. was established in 1898 as the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association by John Merrick, Dr. AM Moore, PW Dawkins, DT Watson, WP Pearson, EA Johnson, and Dr. James E Shepard. This coalition of men appears to have grown out of the Grand United Order of the True Reformers, a mutual-benefit society founded in...

Citizens Bank Building -- The Sneed-Thomas building was constructed on the southeast corner of East Main St. and South Mangum St. in the 1890s. It housed the Sneed and Thomas drugstore, operated by Paul C. Sneed and Allen S. Thomas. Their building was described in the "Handbook of Durham" as "a large three-story pressed brick building with marble...

213-215 N. Mangum, December 1963 (Courtesy Duke Archives) The First Baptist Church was the first church in Durham. The congregation formed in 1845 as the Rose of Sharon Baptist church, according to Boyd's history of Durham, "in the Piney Grove schoolhouse, 1 mile south of West Durham." In 1850, with population growing near "Durhamville" and...