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JOHN O'DANIEL HOSIERY MILL / FARMERS' EXCHANGE
801Gilbert StreetCross street: Pearl StreetDurhamBusinesses: Durham Hosiery Mills Company, Durham Farmers Mutual Exchange / Central Carolina Farmers ExchangeNCPeople: Bowling, Dr. Edwin...
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902 GLENN ST. - DR. W. C. STRUDWICK HOUSE
902Glenn StreetCross street: Grant StreetDurhamNC1913-1920"Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Strudwick" - Milestones Along the Color Line, 1922. William C. Strudwick was a physician with an office in the "Strudwick...
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JP JONES AND SON GENERAL STORE
3635Angier AvenueDurhamNC19453635 Angier Avenue, 1951"J.P. Jones & Son, general store at 3635 Angier Avenue, carries a large line of food, staples, appliances, farm equipment, feed, seed, and...
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Mystery Photo - 08.20.09
Angier AvenueCross street: Jones CircleDurhamNC"Highway Patrol Inspecting Cars, 03.03.62" (Courtesy Herald-Sun)With help from commenters below, this location was identified as the site of J. P. Jones...
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607 DOWD ST.
607Dowd StreetDurhamNC1920-1930 12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as lot 14 of the Geerwood Park Subdivision, PB5A/P74. Unusual combination of features, including short Tuscan columns with a solid...
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605 DOWD ST.
605Dowd StreetDurhamNC1900-1920 12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as Lot 13 of the Geerwood Park subdivision (PB5A/P74), this property was purchased from the original developer by Adolphus and...
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807 N. DUKE ST.
807North Duke StreetDurhamNC1900-1907Durham County Tax Administration photograph, September 2017. From the 1982 Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory (p.171, entry for 803 North Duke two doors...
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408 SOUTH DRIVER STREET
408South Driver StreetDurhamNC1915-1925 408 South Driver, 1980(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.)Lindsay Seagroves House...
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806 NINTH STREET
806Ninth StreetDurhamNC1960-1965 806 Ninth St., 09.12.09 Looking west from ~Iredell, ~1950. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The east side of the 800 block of Ninth St. was residential through much...
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TATE HOUSE - 1001 EDITH STREET (FORMER 1704 MARKHAM)
1001Edith StreetDurhamNC1910Many thanks to John Martin, owner of the house, who collected and wrote much of the history I've incorporated into the text below 1001 Edith Street spent the first ~90 years...
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1704 WEST MARKHAM
1704West Markham StreetDurhamNCSeveral of you wrote me to alert me to the fact that Jeff Monsein, whose name you may recognize from ads for his "Aluminum Company of North Carolina," intends to tear...
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127 MASONDALE AVENUE
127Masondale AvenueDurhamNC1955Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, January 2018 This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and...
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106 SOUTH ALSTON AVENUE
106South Alston AvenueDurhamNC20002015Construction type: Masonry, FrameNeighborhood: EdgemontType: Commercial, ResidentialUse: ResidenceFind location: Manually (place location on map)Geofield address:...
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119 EAST MAIN STREET
119East Main StreetDurhamNC Looking northeast from the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The first brick structures on the north side of the 100 block of...
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Kempner, Walter
(Image source - Duke Medical Center Library and Archives) Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined Duke in 1934 as a member of the Department of Medicine. Kempner was interested in the...
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1501-1503 VIRGINIA AVE - DR. CLOTILDE SCHLAYER HOUSE
1503Virginia AvenueCross street: Pershing StreetDurhamNC1942December 2021 (Photo by Tom Miller) This unassuming cottage on the unpaved northern portion of Virginia Avenue was the longtime home of Dr....
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LAKE RIDGE AERO PARK
East Geer StreetDurhamNC1945Not everyone is aware that there is an airport subdivision in eastern Durham county; Lake Ridge Airport, on the shore of Falls Lake near the Durham County line is Durham...
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BACON RIND BRIDGE
Bacon Rind Bridge over the Neuse River on US Highway 15, looking west-southwest, July 7, 1942 (photograph by Albert Barden, Courtesy of State Archives of North Carolina - collection online via flickr)....
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Lickle-Perlzweig House
39183918 Dover Road, ca. 1930, Contributing BuildingTwo-story hip-roofed Colonial Revival with shingle siding, 6/6 double-hung wood sash, intersecting front-gabled wing at one end of facade, projecting...
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1102-1104 BROAD
1102-1104Broad StreetDurhamNC1940s1102-1104 Broad (with Somethyme on the left,) 1974 1102-1104 Broad St., 06.27.09 1102-1104 Broad was built in the late 1940s, initially housing Sanders Florist at 1102...
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