People & Places

Owned by the Coca-Cola bottling company of Durham as of 2014. Appears from a distance to be deteriorating / to have lost its windows. Still standing as of spring 2020. This house was demolished in 2021.

Not really the original Patterson Mill or general store, but a well-preserved early 20th century farmhouse nonetheless.

1973 Durham High School Yearbook (thanks to Steve Bowen for calling my attention to this.) (Northern High School Yearbook)

This one-story, hip-roofed Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and triple-pile with a gabled projection on the west elevation, flush with the façade, and a gabled rear ell with a shed-roofed screened porch beyond the ell. County tax records date the building to 1941; the earliest known occupant is McKinley Barton (factory worker) in 1945. According to a neighbor, his wife worked at the laundry at Duke University.

1937 City Directory: Thomas H. and Nellie W. McCauley. Thomas is listed as a carpenter.

John M. Avery House, 1922. From Milestones Along the Color Line This was the home of John M. Avery and his wife; Avery is listed in the 1923 city directory as "pres Acme Regalia Co. Vice-pres-sec North Carolina Mutual Co. and treas Bankers Fire Insurance." In 1938, the Harriet Tubman YWCA occupied the house. By 1955, the home was torn down, and the...