One of two houses built on land originally part of the JW Blackwell house, 505 Yancey and its near-twin at 507 Yancey remain while that house is gone. After suffering a fire in 2010, the house is under renovation

Rowland-Gregory House, late 1960s (Courtesy Durham County Library) Below in quotes per the 1982 Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory, p.87 - not verified for accuracy by this author: "The principal stylistic elements of the two-story hip-roofed house consist of Doric columns supporting the wraparound porch and porte cochere, a Palladian...

Catsburg Store, 04.07.87 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

----- Original East End School, ~1910s (Courtesy Durham Public Schools) The East End Graded School, built in 1909, was the third graded school established for African-American children in Durham, after the Whitted School (at Ramsey and Proctor Streets in Hayti) and the West End Graded School. The locations of these schools reflected the locations...

While I've previously profiled the first 'Graded School' constructed in Durham (i.e. public school,) private schools began in fits and starts - a log cabin school near the present intersection of Dillard and Main, classes in churches, etc. The first private school of substance in Durham began in 1852, on land donated by AJ Rigsbee at the current...

The Alexander Motor Company was established in 1916 by S. Parks Alexander on the corner of Church and East Parrish Sts. In 1924, they constructed their new dealership at 330 East Main St. To get a sense of how things have changed in the world of car dealerships, the Alexander Ford Company hired Milburn and Heister to design their structure.

(Photo courtesy of Durham County Tax Administration) By the late 1930s, John Adams Buchanan had risen to the pinnacle of Durham's business, civic and social worlds. He had organized the company which built and operated the Washington Duke Hotel, he founded the Home Building and Loan Association and his Home Insurance Agency was the largest...

Mid-Century commercial medical office building that has been kept vacant/abandoned by Bill Fields since the mid-1990s.