Looking southwest from East Main St., 1908 (From "Images of America: Durham" by Stephen Massengill) The remaining commercial structures in the 100 block of East Main St., like the structures profiled yesterday, housed a variety of retail and service businesses.

Looking southwest from East Main St., 1908 (From "Images of America: Durham" by Stephen Massengill) The remaining commercial structures in the 100 block of East Main St., like the structures profiled yesterday, housed a variety of retail and service businesses.

Bittman Apts, with the Planters Warehouse and Fuller school in the background - looking northeast from the 100 block of Holloway, 1963? (Courtesy Durham County Library) Looking west on Holloway St., 1950s (Courtesy Bob Blake) Looking northeast from North Mangum and Holloway St., 1963? (Courtesy Durham County Library) The east side of the 300 block...

Looking northeast from North Mangum and Holloway St., 1963? (Courtesy Durham County Library) Looking north from Fire Station #1, 09.20.54. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The east side of the 300 block of North Mangum St. and the north side of the 100 block of Holloway St. developed as a residential area during the late 1800s, which was...

The corner of Ramseur St. and Corcoran St. is a historically significant corner - can't you tell? (Workers are installing new sidewalk around city-owned parking lot) On the property between Main St. and the railroad tracks, east of Corcoran St., stood Dr. Bartlett Durham's house, "Pandora's Box", a two-story frame structure in which Dr. Durham...

Part of the Durham Hosiery Mills Co. evolution away from cotton hosiery, the silk hosiery mill was built on the former site of the Hotel Carrolina and Pandora's Box, and remained viable throughout mid-century - unlike the cotton mills. The silk hosiery mill shut down by the 1960s, and, most unfortunately, it was demolished. It would be an extraordinary addition to the adaptive reuse landscape of downtown Durham today.

Designed by George Matsumoto and built in 1954, the George Poland house was originally located at 3129 Arrow Drive in Raleigh. After Poland's death in 2001, Poland's family donated the house to Preservation North Carolina. PNC put it on the market and imposed a buyer requirement to move the house to a suitable lot. In 2002, Don DeFeo moved the...

1223 Vickers Ave., 1950s (Courtesy Dave Piatt) 1223 Vickers Ave., 1950s (Courtesy Dave Piatt) 1223 Vickers Ave., 1950s (Courtesy Dave Piatt) Per Triangle Modernist Houses: Designed by Marion A. Ham. In association with primary architect Welton Becket, Ham designed the 1965 North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company in Durham, the city’s most...

1212 Hill Street, likely 1970s Per Triangle Modernist Houses: The George Watts Hill, Jr. House: Sold in 1967 to Anton and Leopoldina Peterlin. Sold in 1978 to current owners Joel C. and Christine J. Huber. 2474 square feet. the guest cottage was a demonstration house for General Electric, designed by students at the NCSU School of Design under...