The north side of the 200 block of East Chapel Hill St. - between Roney (which ran in front of the Carolina Theater) and Foster - resembled many of the other blocks downtown, with a row of two story, varied facades. Below, a partial view of the block - on the left - from the early 1920s. (Courtesy Durham County Library) 201-207 East Chapel Hill...

The northwest corner of Five Points contained a series of commerical structures, similar to Main St., that fronted on Five Points and turned the corner at Morris Street. A view from the 1920s, looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A 1920s view from a bit further west (starts on right with building near the left edge in the above...

The northwest corner of Five Points contained a series of commerical structures, similar to Main St., that fronted on Five Points and turned the corner at Morris Street. A view from the 1920s, looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A 1920s view from a bit further west (starts on right with building near the left edge in the above...

01.28.58 The northwest corner of Five Points contained a series of commerical structures, similar to Main St., that fronted on Five Points and turned the corner at Morris Street. A view from the 1920s, looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Above, 410 West Main is the second structure from the right. An early color picture of this...

01.28.58 The northwest corner of Five Points contained a series of commerical structures, similar to Main St., that fronted on Five Points and turned the corner at Morris Street. A view from the 1920s, looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A 1920s view from a bit further west (starts on right with building near the left edge in the...

(Durham County Library) Built in the 1930s. 1939 Duke Homecoming Parade (Retrochrome.net) showing 400 W. Main as the "Advance Store" and "Durham Beauty Academy." I was a bit loath to believe that this shot was from as early as 1939, but I can't imagine the "Advance Store" would use a rising sun logo after the early 1940s. 01.28.58 01.28.58 (Photo...

1304 South Duke Street. (Courtesy Gladys Glenn) Family in front of 1306 S. Duke with 1304 in the background, looking east on South Duke. (Courtesy Gladys Glenn) Both houses were still standing in the mid-1950s, during the construction of Forest Hills Shopping Center, but they appear to have been torn down during the 1960s. The section of South Duke...

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Large farmland of the TJ Rigsbee family was bought by James B. Duke / Trinity College for the construction of Duke University