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YWCA
513West Chapel Hill StreetCross street: South Gregson StreetDurhamNC1926 Looking south/southeast from the north side of W. Chapel Hill St.(Courtesy Durham County Library) Copyright Sanborn Fire...
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301 WEST MAIN ST. - SPARGER BUILDING
301West Main StreetCross street: Market StreetDurhamNC1890-1910301 West Main was the home of the C.D. Kenny Company, a local tea, coffee, and sugar store, soon after the turn of the century. The C.D....
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3921 FAYETTEVILLE ST. - DILLARD'S BBQ
3921Fayetteville StreetCross street: Riddle RoadDurhamNC1950-1953Dillard's BBQ was noted in this Indy article (thank you Indy for maintaining your URLs rather than switching them around all the time)...
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OLDHAM TOWERS
519East Main StreetCross street: North Dillard StreetDurhamNC1969On the northeast corner of Main and Dillard streets is this imposing structure. Looking north, November 2018. (Photo by N. Levy) Oldham...
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JASPER HARE HOUSE - 113 EAST ELLERBEE STREET
113East Ellerbee StCross street: Highland AvenueDurhamNC1926The homeowner of 113 East Ellerbee Street applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham in 2016. The following...
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111 East Ellerbee St: Cash-Waller House
111East Ellerbee StreetDurhamNC1926In 2016, the residents of this home applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application...
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923 ENGLEWOOD AVE. - BREEZE FARMHOUSE
923Englewood AvenueDurhamNC1893(Durham County tax office)Large 2-story frame house with a pyramidal hip roof with flanking side-gabled sections and 2 gabled wall dmmers. The central bay is a gabled...
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U.S. POST OFFICE (1934)
323East Chapel Hill StreetCross street: Rigsbee AvenueArchitect/Designers: Atwood and Weeks / Atwood and NashDurhamNC1934View of the U.S. Post Office, Atwood and Weeks, ~1934 (Courtesy Milo Pyne) The...
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DURHAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE ANNEX / SOCIAL SERVICES
220East Main StreetCross street: South Roxboro StreetDurhamNC1966The Durham County Social Services building was constructed in 1966 on the former site of the Arcade Theater, Hotel Lochmoor, and the...
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210 NEWMAN ST.
210Newman StreetDurhamNC1890-192006.25.13(Photo by Gary Kueber)Update 12.14.2018 - this house appears to have been torn down not long after the above photo was taken (see Google Street View captured...
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BIG 4 WAREHOUSE - MORGAN AND RIGSBEE
200-210Morgan StreetCross street: Rigsbee AvenueDurhamNC1910-1920 Looking northwest from Rigsbee Ave. and Morgan. (Courtesy Library of Congress)The north side of Morgan St. east of Foster St. was the...
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207-209 MORGAN ST
207-209Morgan StreetDurhamNCSeveral attractive storefronts lined the south side of Morgan St. between Holland St. on the west side and Rigsbee Ave. on the east. The Piedmont Furniture Co. was located...
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201-205 MORGAN ST.
201-205Morgan StreetCross street: Rigsbee AvenueDurhamNC1920-1935Several attractive storefronts lined the south side of Morgan St. between Holland St. on the west side and Rigsbee Ave. on the east. The...
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104 EAST CORPORATION STREET
104East Corporation StreetDurhamNC1910-1915104 E Corporation St., 01.23.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress)Citing Sanborn Maps, a 1988 report by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the...
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106 EAST CORPORATION STREET / HAYWOOD STREET
106East Corporation StreetDurhamNC1910-1915106 E Corporation St., 01.23.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress)Citing Sanborn Maps, a 1988 report by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the...
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909 DALE STREET
909Dale StreetDurhamNCc.1905 909 Dale St., 02.23.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress)Described in a 1989 National Park Service Historic American Buildings Survey report as the "largest home in...
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411 WALKER STREET
411Walker StreetDurhamNC1910-1920 411 Walker St., 02.28.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress)Before being torn down around 1990, this was one of a string of five identical one-story, single-family...
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416 WALKER STREET
416Walker StreetDurhamNC1920-1950 416 Walker St., 02.28.1989 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)Multiple surveys - including the one that produced this photo just prior to the building's demolition -...
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Underwood, Norman
From the 1910 Durham Illustrated:N. UNDERWOODA man who is responsible for many of the fine buildings erected in Durham during the past dozen years is Norman Underwood, a builder and contractor knovvn...
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1050 W. FOREST HILLS BLVD. - PINECREST
1050West Forest Hills BoulevardCross street: Westwood DriveArchitect/Designers: Carr, George Watts Sr.DurhamNCPeople: Semans, Mary Duke Biddle Trent1928Designed by George Watts Carr and built for James...
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