Designed by Empire State Building architects Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon for banker John Sprunt Hill, the Hill Building or CCB (Central Carolina Bank) Building is one of the most iconic in Durham.

3635 Angier Avenue, 1951 "J.P. Jones & Son, general store at 3635 Angier Avenue, carries a large line of food, staples, appliances, farm equipment, feed, seed, and fertilizers, serving the trade in Durham, Orange, Person, Granville, Wake, and Chatham Counties. This business was founded in Wake (now Durham) County in 1893 by MC and RM Jones, but was...

One of Durham's two great flatiron buildings at Five Points, both now gone.

Looking north, 1910s. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The last of the 'original' fire stations downtown, fire station no. 3 was constructed in 1911, housing a steamer engine and a hose wagon. The 500 block of East Main St. (between Dillard and Elizabeth streets) was constructed as a wide, divided street with a median - but only for one block. The...

119 North Dillard Street was an infill structure built on the southwest corner of N. Dillard and Liberty Street, ~1930, roughly 20 years after the development of the houses to its north and south. Above, looking northwest up N. Dillard St. from near East Main, 1944. 119 North Dillard is visible on the left, in the background, beyond 115 N. Dillard...

(Courtesy Susan Griswold Herst) The large house at 115 N. Dillard St., was built in a neoclassical revival style, and resembled the still extant 206 N. Dillard St. After ~1910, the house was home to the Griswold family. William J. Griswold was mayor of Durham from 1910-1912, and president of the Griswold Insurance and Real Estate Co. William...

Year Built: ~1920s Owner: James Marvin Bradford Around the corner from 502 and 504 Roxboro (which I wrote about several posts ago) on Queen Street are these great small Craftsman houses. 603 North Queen Unfortunately, they have the same owner as 502 and 504 North Roxboro. Together with those damaged houses, and other parcels owned by Mr. Bradford...

115-117 West Chapel Hill Street was the original location of the Budd-Piper Roofing Company - a company still located downtown, on Ramseur St. as of 2006. View of Budd-Piper building, circa 1910. Looking south from the north side of West Chapel Hill St. (Durham County Library) The Budd-Piper building (second on the right) during the underpass...