203 Jackson St.

35.995255, -78.906405

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Durham
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203 Jackson
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

The 200 block and 300 block of Jackson St. were essentially a single block, the numbering change occurring where Ashton Place met, but did not cross Jackson at mid-block. It ran from Willard St. on the west side to Warren St. on the east, immediately adjacent to the Morehead School in the next block.

Many of the houses were the original housing built just to the west of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Factory in the 1870s and 1880s. Though I don't know for certain that these were built by Blackwell, I do know that he built housing adjacent to the factory. Although these often are the classic Triple-A roofline form, they are distinguished from the later mill houses by gable returns on the side gables, frequent corbels along the gables/roofline, and slim, boxed, rather than turned, porch posts.


Looking southwest from downtown - the Morehead School is most prominent, with Jackson running in front of it. 201 Jackson is visible to its right.
(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection/Digital Durham)

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Another view from a bit further west.
(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection/Digital Durham)

These houses survived into the mid 20th century - while the picture below is an aerial looking north, towards the backs of these buildings, it most clearly shows the individual structures along Jackson St. in context. Jackson runs left to right, Ashton Place intersects it to the left, and Warren interects it to the right, alongside the Morehead School.

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(Courtesy Herald-Sun)

These houses were destroyed by the city in the urban renewal program.


Looking southeast from NC Mutual, 1967. Almost all of the neighborhood houses are gone, and the demolition of the Morehead school has begun. The 200 and 300 block of Jackson is in the foreground, with Ashton Place joining Jackson to the left.
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)

Warren St. was closed, Ashton Place turned to a cul-de-sac (now it's closed too) and this became a large parking lot associated with NC Mutual, which built a small office on the corner of Willard and Jackson.


Looking southwest from near the former Warren St. and Jackson, 02.10.08
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Looking southeast from Jackson St., 02.10.08.
 

Comments

While not a source of major destruction, it would be cool if you did a piece on the Pizza Palace building. Haha.

I've only been in Durham or 1.5 years and don't really know much behind the history of "The Dome."

-Allen

The flash tool for examining the photo up close is really cool. I enjoyed playing with it.

-Jonathan

Super Flashy! Thank you for sharing this tool!

very cool Gary - might be nice to zoomify that 1927 comprehensive plan map, and the 1891 bird's eye...

for those who like the super flashy, here's a next generation tool that hopes to one-up zoomify in slickness - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 - shown here is a TED vid showing off MS's Seadragon and Photosynth -
you can try out a photosynth demo http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html - unfortunately seadragon is not availiable yet, and since it's MS, who knows how open it will be to tinkering

TT

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