Once near the south end of McMannen Street, this house was torn down by urban renewal

Ruth Hosiery Mill, looking west, late 1930s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Ruth Hosiery Mill started at some point between 1923 and 1937; it appears that there was a frame structure to the south, and a later steel frame/brick curtain wall structure built to the north on East Pettigrew. By 1937, the northern...

New Deal era water tower still flows for Durham

05.08.11 I repeatedly would see the back of this old church from the Durham Freeway while driving under the R. Kelly Bryant bridge - I finally explored this little strip of land between East Pettigrew until I found it and the north side of the bridge. Per the website of the current congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church was established in 1909...

Small cottage tragically destroyed by fire in 2010, killing two.

Long-time grocery store and eatery along the south side of the railroad tracks in East Durham. Listed as Catlett's Restaurant in Victor H. Green's The Negro Motorist Green Book guide for African American travelers in the 1947-1949 editions. More recently used as a residential duplex.

Fine two-story house survives amidst an industrial section for many years, only to come down in 2010

An example of the worst in government-funded housing escapades; 600K spent, row of historic houses torn down, no new ones built.

Sweet little house with nice gable and window detailing - soon to be disposed of by a familiar face.

Story-and-a-jump house on Angier Ave.