Brick

318-320 West Main / 120-126 East Chapel Hill St. - Belk-Leggett

318-320 West Main Belk-Hudson, later Hudson-Belk, and, still later, Belk-Leggett was one of the (if not the) first chain stores to enter Durham. A partnership between the Belk company, which had started in Monroe, NC in 1888, and the Hudson brothers of Anson County, NC, Durham's store opened in 1919, 4 years after Belk's first incursion into the...

327-329 West Main

The building at 327-329 West Main St. was built during the 1920s with the C.D. Kenny company (which sold Teas, Coffees, and Sugars) as one tenant and the Federated Clothing Store as the other. I've previously posted on another location of the CD Kenny company, 301 West Main St. In keeping with the concentration of retail stores near Five Points...

Hall-Wynne Stables / Penny Furniture - East Chapel Hill

The second part of the Hall-Wynne building (the two connected at the back, along Manning Place) was also built between 1907 and 1913. This building was the stable building for the funeral home. Looking north-ish, 1910. The picture is a bit odd as they have 'edited' out the background (which it appears consisted of small frame structures from the pieces the printer couldn't edit out.)

First Durham Graded School / Morehead School

Public schools were established in Durham in 1882 using leased space in the Wright Factory building on Main St. The Durham Graded School, on Jackson St. between Carr and Warren Sts., was Durham's first dedicated public school building, constructed in 1892. The large, red brick, Norman Revival building became an elementary school after the construction of Durham High School on Morgan St. and was renamed the Morehead School.

1101-1103 West Chapel Hill St.

1980 (Duke Chanticleer) 1101-1103 West Chapel Hill Street was built between 1920 and 1923. 1923: Atkins H. & Son (Hiram and Roy L.), and the Great A&P Tea Co. (A&P) 1928: Upchurch CF, and the Great A&P Tea Co. (A&P) 1938:Upchurch Grocery (1101) and the Crabtree Dry Cleaners (1103.) 1943: West Side Lunch (1101) and the Crabtree Dry Cleaners (1103.)...

302-308 East Chapel Hill Street

East Chapel Hill Street was not the retail street that Main was, but had more service-oriented businesses. The two buildings with frontage on Chapel Hill Street were automobile service-oriented from the early 20th century. Southeast corner of Chapel Hill Street and Corcoran, ~1920. Looking south from Chapel Hill street at the corner building...

East Main St. Bus Station

This is the fourth post in a "mini-series" about the intersection of E. Main and Dillard streets. The last corner to examine is the northwest corner, which transitioned from residential to a bus station to a vacant lot. Here is the corner as of this morning 8/7/06, looking west from Dillard. I'll repeat the satellite view here: And a view of this...

Library / Albert Lewis Turner Hall / William Jones Building

This tall T-shaped and hip-roofed one-story building with a mezzanine and a raised basement is part of the campus building campaign sponsored by the Public Works Administration. Brick elevations in English bond are punctuated by tall windows with. splayed brick lintels and limestone keystones. Constructed as a library, the building later served as the law school and today contains offices.

Elkins Chrysler Dealership - Mangum St.

Under construction, ~1970 1969 (Special Grand Opening section of the Herald-Sun) 1969 (Special Grand Opening section of the Herald-Sun) 1976 (Courtesy Jim Elkins) Elkins Chrysler Dealership, October 1983 (Courtesy Jim Elkins) Minivans! (Courtesy Jim Elkins)

Hillside Park High School / Whitted Junior High

Hillside Park High School, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham) Hillside Park High School, 1924 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)