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Built in the 1930s for park ranger use, the so-called Lavender House in Northgate Park was the mid-1940s home of the Durham Children's Museum, before it moved to larger quarters and eventually became the Museum of Life and Science. Long used for storage, the wooden frame was demolished after repeated flooding in 2014, with the stonework left behind as a kind of memorial.

Queen St. has a bit of an on-again-off-again thing with the block between Holloway and Liberty St. The initial mid-to-late-1800s layout of Durham's streets had Queen terminate at Liberty St. on the north end. Bird's Eye view, 1891. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

Looking northwest, 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) Prior to the construction of Union Station, all of the railroads has separate passenger depots along the railroad tracks. One of these was the Durham and Northern, formed in 1887, which became the Seaboard Railroad. While Union Station consolidated these, the Seaboard continued to have a separate passenger depot at the foot of Dillard St. (at the railroad tracks.)

524 Holloway, 1964. Henry Wilkerson was an administrator at the Golden Belt Hosiery Mill. He had this house constructed, likely around the time the Hosiery Mill began operations nearby, in 1901.

Lochmoor was most well known as the 'country estate' of Edward James Parrish, Durham's first tobacco auctioneer, and builder of the first brick warehouse in Durham.

Robert M. Jones, who was an owner of the Markham Jones Feed and Grocery on Orange St. built this house at the time of his marriage around the turn of the century. He also contructed one other house on this side of Holloway St., 517 Holloway.

311 Oakwood was built by William and Melissa Proctor around the turn of the 20th century. Wm. Proctor was the 'cashier' (probably equivalent to the corporate accountant) for the Ellis Stone department store company, which predated Woolworth's as the ground floor retail tenant of the Geer Building. After Mr. Proctor's death in 1910, Ms. Proctor...