11.02.56 11.02.56 10.22.10 11.10.10 11.10.10 2007 This house, which faced W. Corporation., was located immediately behind 731 N. Mangum. The red arrow points to the northwest corner of the (still-standing-as-of-Feb-2014) building on N. Mangum St. that was 731's next door neighbor until 731's demise. The blue arrow points nominally north, toward W...

Late 1920s This building ended up city owned by the early 2000s. When the city put it out to bid, UDI ended up outbidding several private developers for the property. They demolished all but the front facade so they could do this. 11.11.13 Which just makes me really question - why do we still need UDI in this area? This intersection doesn't need...

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Labor Temple, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) In April 1941, the heirs of Mary A. Green - longtime resident of a home at this address who had bought the land from A. M. Rigsbee in the 1880s - sold this parcel to trustees of the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union, Local 585. By the next year, along with more than two dozen other 'locals' affiliated through...

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Temple Baptist Church, 2007 1895 During the early 1880s, Reverend C.C. Durham of the First Baptist Church began a movement to establish Sunday schools in other parts of the city. One of these was located in the house of J.W. Blackwell at 602 South Duke St. J.W. was the brother of W.T. Blackwell, who lived nearby on West Chapel Hill St. With the...

519 S. Duke I find this picture particularly poignant - the two boys play on their front lawn while the photographer shoots a picture to decide how much their house is worth in order to tear it down. I mean, imagine how excited the folks at 513 S. Duke were to see this sign go up in front of their house. . The urban renewal 'study area' in Durham...