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Thanks first off to Andy Edmonds who has been commenting on the destruction of this church building on my Maplewood Cemetery post. Per the church website, First Calvary Baptist Church was organized in 1884 as Second Baptist Church on Cameron (now Cornell) Street. The white Second Baptist Church was located at West Chapel Hill and Shepherd Sts. - its name was later changed to Temple Baptist.

612-614 Fayetteville St. appears to have been built in the late 1920s; 612 housed Loftin's Bakery during the 1930s. By 1941, 612 had become Rose's Beauty Salon and 614 the Home Modernization and Supply Company. The Home Modernization and Supply Company remaned in business at this location for the next 25 years. 612 became the Service Tailor Shop and Eagle Sport Shop before it was occupied by the Bull City Barber College in 1957. 612 Fayetteville, 1962.

(Courtesy State of North Carolina Archives) Above, looking south at the block of East Pettigrew between Henry Alley (intersecting street on the right) and Cozart St. (intersecting street next to Speight's service station, on the left) - circa ~1940s. 526-532 is the two-story structure next to Henry Alley.

Venable Warehouse, looking east on East Pettigrew Street, likely 1920s-1930. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Wyatt Dixon Collection) Much of the historical information in this post derives from the National Register nominations for the Venable buildings

What is now South Roxboro Street was initially Pine Street - one of a number of north-south streets south of the North Carolina Railroad line that did not connect to streets north of the tracks. The non-connecting and non-aligned Roxboro and Pine Streets, 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The residential...

122 Cora St. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Venable Tobacco Company, which had built three bays of warehouse on the east side of South Roxboro St. / Pine Street in the first two decades of the 20th century, built two additional warehouse sections (which they labelled 4 and 5) on the west side of South Roxboro at...

(Photo by Gary Kueber) --- Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I haven't found an explanation that suffices, other...

Looking southeast at the 'point' of Matthews St. and Blackwell St., 1964. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The terse writeup of the AB Morris cafe in 1951's "Durham and her People" says only that the cafe at 416 Blackwell St. "cater[ed] especially to the employees of the American Tobacco Company."

--- Looking north on Roney St. from East Chapel Hill St., late 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The 300 block of Roney St. first developed as a residential street - the disparity in housing is striking as you compare Morris St., to the left in the above picture, and Roney, to the right. As the warehouse...

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The North Durham Graded School was among the 'second wave' of schools established in Durham around the turn of the century, following the establishment of the first graded school for white children in 1892 and the Whitted School for African-American children, located at Ramsey and Proctor...